This from guest blogger, Eliot Wagner, My Lunch Date. His bio is below.

While at the South By Southwest music festival in March, 2006, my friend
Austin Bob introduced me to the Waco Brothers.  I had never heard of
them before, but I’m always up for a bunch of English guys from Chicago
playing country music with New York session drummer Steve Goulding. 
Anyway, they were good musically and the front man, whose name I never
caught, was pretty funny as well.

Cut to October, 2006 .  My friend Doug asks me if I’m going to the Jon
Langford show at Southpaw, a music club here in the Slope (but it’s as
far as you can get from my house and still be in the neighborhood).  I
told Doug I never heard of Jon, but Doug said I would like him.  I know
Doug’s taste in music is close to mine so I told him I would be there.

Doug showed up after the opening act and we spoke a bit.  He mentioned
that he had seen Jon and Sally Timms, who was in Jon’s band, around in
the club.  Not unusual for Southpaw, which must have a really tiny
backstage area.  Doug said that he thought that Jon was married to
Sally, but he wasn’t sure.  Jon and band soon come on and although I
think they needed a second guitar, they were pretty good.  And Jon, who
has an English accent, was pretty funny between songs.  Slowly it began
to dawn on me that Jon was the guy who fronted the Waco Brothers.

Looking around the crowd, I noticed Rabbi Andy Bachman, who I know from
the neighborhood, and his wife, Rachel.  I’m not surprised to see them
here, as I ran into them on East 2nd Street the day that street was
dedicated as Joey Ramone Place (Andy told me later that it was important
that his kids be at that dedication).  But after awhile he disappeared
from view.

When the show was over, I walked home and decided to check on the
Internet whether Sally was Jon’s wife.  Pretty quickly I learned she
wasn’t.  Jon was actually married to Helen Tsatsos who, it turns out,
was the college roommate of Rachel, Andy Bachman’s wife.  A bit more
googling digs up information on how Andy and Rachel used to follow the
Mekons around, and the fact that Jon, Sally and Steve Goulding were all
members of that band.

Interesting.  I’m not sure what conclusion to draw from all this other
than somehow it’s all connected.

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My bio:

Eliot Wagner, a life-long New Yorker and a Brooklynite for the past 21
years, is an attorney, a technologist and a musicologist.  He retired
from the full time practice of law in 2006.

Eliot worked in the broker-dealer industry practicing in the area of
technology law from 1991 through 2006.  He has spoken about legal issues
which relate to the use of technology and the Internet by businesses
before the Securities Industry Association, the Institute of
International Research and the International Information Integrity
Institute.

Currently, Eliot can be found attending live music several times a week
both here in Brooklyn and on the Lower East Side.  He also designs and
builds desktop computers, evaluates Linux distributions, and is the
creator and host of a rock music podcast series that has a small but
enthusiastic following.