It’s been a while since I’ve had a singer stop by the luxurious penthouse studio overlooking the neighbor’s duplex, but, while that tradition may go and come for a little wile longer, it’s one that I vow will never end completely. (My plans are to do a regular show in which a new singer stops in with a guitar, some songs and some stories every week, but that — like everything else with HTB — is taking a good while to get set up.)

That said, my friend Clark Rossi is headed in to Corpus Christi from Hebronville, Texas (nearly 100 miles) tonight with his guitar. He’ll be hanging out with me starting at about 7 p.m. — our times are never exact — until he and I are ready to get up and get on down to the very cool little Open Mic Night they got going down at The House of Rock downtown.

Since Tony Kinsel is planning on cheating in the April edition of the Hossey Music Award song voting contest by playing his dang picks a few days ahead of time on his Sunday night show, you should know that I’ll be doing a little gamesmanship myself tonight: One of my picks in April is going to be from Clark’s new CD that he’ll be bringing with him tonight. So tonight’s show will likely feature some April campaigning.

If you miss tonight’s show, I will set it to replay on Weds – Friday right after Tony Kinsel’s show (8 a.m. Wednesday, 9 p.m. Thursday, and 9 a.m. Friday) and then at 9 p.m. on Saturday night.

Clark, by the way, is the father of Pake Rossi, a talented young man who is a bit of an all-star on the Corpus Christi music scene. (He made it to the dang finals in the Hossey Music Award Song Voting Contest Show in 2009, in fact.)

Oh yeah… Here’s Clark’s MySpace page.