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Chapter 12 of "Roughing It" is the reading today with that special Mark Twain slant.  Twain and his brother are in the stage coach heading west and finally getting a good meal.

This is one of those FUN shows, with great music and great banter. Acoustic duo The Smoke Shovelers have spent a few years now sneaking around the periphery of the Davis/Sacto circuit entertaining friends and family at barbecues, honey-extracting parties, coffee-roasting sessions, campfire jams, film festivals, back-patio birthdays, front-porch hoedowns, New Year’s celebrations, and every once in a while planting themselves in front of microphones for a paying audience in more traditional musical venues. Davis music veterans Roger Kunkel (Thin White Rope, Acme Rocket Quartet) on mandolin, guitar, banjo, and fiddle, and Rusi Gustafson (Curbfeelers, Acme Rocket Quartet) on guitar, banjitar, and harmonica, lend their two-part harmonies to both original tunes and an upended grab bag of folk, bluegrass, and country-rock covers ranging from the Statler Brothers and John Prine to the Replacements and the Velvet Underground.