They are each from Texas, earnest and friendly, married with four children, borderline Hall of Famers who pepper conversation with words like heck and golly.
Their stunningly beautiful songs and voices seem made for each other, even if their relationship stays on a friendly, professional level (Meredith is married to Paper Route frontman JT Daly).
Now a club-friendly version marrying folk with electronic beats is taking the city's nightspots by storm.
By the time he appeared before HUAC as a "friendly witness," in May, 1952, he had married and divorced his second wife, the actress Bette Grayson, and was the father of two children, Nora and Walt.
The co-owners, a Californian married to a Tongan, are friendly and helpful.
Dead or Alive gradually shed their guitars in favour of a more pop-friendly sound, marrying the gothic grandeur to dancefloor beats and the slap bass, as heard on their 1983 debut album Sophisticated Boom Boom.
There was a middle-aged Bihari couple who, he gathered from overhearing their conversation, had just married off their eldest daughter, and a friendly, potbellied, middle-aged Bengali businessman wearing a suit and tie, by the name of Ghosh.
Ms. Cosby, who was married to the Motown songwriter and producer Hank Cosby, said Mr. Rogers was a friendly, voluble presence, almost impossibly sociable.
And, if we did, it was more on a friendly basis and nothing else.' I ask when she knew they would be married.
Start at World Cafe Live (WCL), a three million dollar space with two stages and incredible acoustics that marries the size, sophistication and cleanliness of an upscale theatre with a friendly, down-to-earth vibe.
