Finally (finally), we come to my favorite subplot, the one about talented, star-crossed couple Scarlett and Gunnar; what names they give these people. Last episode Scarlett put some of her words (she's a "poet") to one of Gunnar's tunes and they sang it at the Bluebird's open-stage night. Happening to overhear it was famous producer Watty White, and now he's interested in either Reyna recording it or possibly Scarlett doing it herself.

She's reluctant because she wants to stand by her boyfriend, the front man of an atrocious "alt-country/punk" project. (His gig this episode did not go well, but he may have found him another piece of tail on the side after messing around with Juliet last week.) Scarlett eventually goes to see Gunnar's hillbilly cover band at some low-rent honky-tonk called the Broken Spoke (ha) to tell him she's decided against the demo, and he tries to talk her out of both the decision and the boyfriend.

This will all play out in the next few episodes I'm sure, but when she gets there, Gunnar's band is playing "I'll Be There," a hit for Texas' own Cherokee Cowboy Ray Price in 1953 (supposedly Hank Williams didn't want it), and later for Johnny Bush, Gail Davies and Martina McBride. Any show that makes room for a song like that, I'll keep watching.

Next week: Juliet and Deacon get naked. I think.