Gruene Hall has the Sarah Pierce Band tonight, The Luke Olson Band on The Luke Olson Band on Thursday.
Olson, from Alamo Heights High School and San Antonio College, is a young singing songwriter who is spending the summer playing his personable country, folk, etc. in front of growing, appreciative audiences.
Like his heroes performing songwriters such as Robert Earl Keen and Jack Ingram.   Olson, accompanied by a top-flight bandm books shows, promotes them and then punches in and goes to work.
While many others who aspire to music business success wait around hoping for a record label to call and pave a path to the top, Olson and his ilk know that the best way to get the word out is to take it out yourself.
Olson's independently released debut album, "Maybe Someday," is still selling well while garnering airplay on Americana stations.
For the Thursday show, Olson will be joined onstage by fiddle ace Ron Knuth and Olson's hard-working crew - Jim Smorto, harmonica, vocals; Chris Biassioli, guitar; Pat Wellberg, bass; and Scott Thomson, drums.
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