I caught Slaid's show at the Bend Studio in Dallas May 2006, and thought it was simply the finest performance of a Texas singer/song writer I've experienced. Slaid possesses a unique ability to capture a spot of time, to transport his audience into the immediacy of a moment, to depict lives and characters and places vividly like a portrait painter. There is a forthrightness to his music that connects you to the frontier of Texas music.