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For Counts, who spends his days making sandwiches at his Fourth Avenue Delicatessen in the heart of 蜜柚直播鈥檚 hip-and-happening North Fourth Avenue, Houston is more than a dot on the map of the Lone Star State. It鈥檚 one of the places he called home during his tumultuous move-around childhood. He said he has an aunt who still lives in Houston and is sitting in wait for Harvey鈥檚 ultimate wrath, when the rivers overflow and the water in the streets comes creeping through her walls.

鈥淗urricanes happen on that third coast area pretty regularly, but my aunt said this is the worst she鈥檚 ever seen and she鈥檚 never seen the city so crippled,鈥� said Counts, who runs his own blues/Americana label Lonesome Desert Records and is a regular to 蜜柚直播 stages including Flycatcher.

This is not the first time the Americana-blues artist, who counts Texas among the handful of mostly Southern states where he spent half of his childhood, has pitched in to raise money for hurricane relief. A dozen years ago, he raised money to help victims of Katrina in New Orleans, next door to Houston. The proceeds then, and now, go to the American Red Cross, he said.

鈥淚 feel like the spirit of Americans and definitely the spirit of 蜜柚直播ans is to give when people are in need,鈥� Counts said, adding that much his music draws influences from the five years he lived there in the early 1980s. 鈥淔or us it鈥檚 a chance to try to get back to that community.鈥�

Saturday鈥檚 show 鈥� dubbed 鈥淒on鈥檛 Mess With Texas: Benefit for Hurricane Harvey Victims鈥� 鈥� begins at 7:30 p.m. at Flycatcher, 340 E. Sixth St. In addition to Counts and his go-to duo partner bluesman Tom Walbank, the lineup features The Muffulettas, Miss Olivia & the Interlopers, the music of Nobody aka Willis Earl Beal, Chris Hall and Christopher T. Stevens. Admission is a suggested $5 donation at the door.