“My daughter’s 11, and I think there’s a point in a kid’s life when it shifts. ![]() “Since I’m a mom now, I’m getting to see firsthand the impact that music has when you were a kid,” says Valentine. To celebrate, she’s assembled a diverse crew of homegrown talent, including Texas Monthly writer Katy Vine, Austin Facial Hair Club member Zach Hall, local vaudevillian Jessica Ryan, onstage do-it-all Adam Sultan, and, Saturday night, Go-Go’s bassist and 2014 Austin Music Awards Hall of Fame inductee Kathy Valentine. With her fourth local installment of the song association storyteller series – debuted in Queens February 2010 and host in the past to such figures as rapper Jean Grae, the Hold Steady’s Craig Finn, and even Chronicle senior editors Robert Faires and Raoul Hernandez – New Yorker Dana Rossi is officially onto something. More vividly – forever branding my memory – there’s the Manhattan street performer who played out a 30-minute routine to Q ueen. A few years before that, though the memory’s a bit foggy, I recall my cousin in Pennsylvania singing “Grease” by Franki Valli. And that clunky black TV in the basement of my buddy’s parents’ house, the one on which we watched Axl Rose and Slash rip through “Sweet Child of Mine” via a Live in Tokyo bootleg VHS one of the first times we got drunk. There’s my babysitter, the hippie who went to Oberlin, singing Whitney Houston in her hatchback Subaru. A quick scan of the set-list at this weekend’s third, semi-annual Soundtrack Series at the Long Center brought the flashbacks. Sometimes you don’t even need to hear the melody of a song for it to take you back to the first place you heard it. Blondie‘s Deborah Harry helped induct Kathy Valentine (right) into the Austin Music Awards’ Hall of Fame last month.
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