Nicky Diamonds, Garrett T. Capps & NASA Country (album release), Santiago Jiménez Jr.

An envoy up from San Antonio brings an eclectic bill of some of Alamo City’s best to the East Austin honky tonk. The legendary Santiago Jimenez Jr. leads the evening, the conjunto pioneer still strapping on his accordion at 80 years old to represent the family tradition. Garrett T. Capps, who produced Jimenez’s 2021 Still Kicking LP, serves the entree with his incomparable brand of cosmic cowboy psychedelic Tex-Americana that rips this year’s Everyone Is Everyone. Sweet-twangin’ Nicky Diamonds closes behind the highly anticipated debut of his 2024 country album Perdido en La Salsa. – Doug Freeman