“Bob Schieffer Sings Honky Tonk”

Bob Schieffer led his band Honky Tonk Confidential “through a set of more than a half-dozen songs” at a new Texas barbecue restaurant in New York Tuesday, the NYT’s Jacques Steinberg writes.

“Among those singing and clapping during Mr. Schieffer’s New York debut… were Harry Smith, co-host of the CBS Early Show; Gene Jankowski, the former president of CBS; Jim Murphy, the senior executive producer of Good Morning America and former executive producer at the CBS Evening News; Steve Capus, the president of NBC News, and Richard Leibner, Mr. Schieffer’s agent, who kvelled like a proud parent in a denim shirt…”