All In The Family

Another Monday night at Café Racer for the Sanchez and Hammer show! Once again forgot I was supposed to bring things for people, but this time it was less of a priority and Anne and I just let it slide and went on in. The PA was working again, even if the speakers were from mismatched sets, and off they went.

Visiting from the great state of Illinois – Julie Jurgens, who has a really good quiet room singing voice, and a crushingly funny snort when she laughs, which was often. Her tales of heartbreak, drinking, and not trusting guys on motorcycles rang out clear. Her scatological pants related jokes may or may not be funny, but the aforementioned exhalation took care of that – we were all laughing soon enough.

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Mike from Silverhands clearly took the Best Song award on this night with the newly revealed 3^rd part of the talking blues catalog – I never caught the name of it, so I’ll leave it to you to figure which saint is the storyteller. Brand new, so you won’t find it on the myspace yet. This might be the best new song I’ve heard in years. He continues to shine in the covers round too.

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Moe Provencher from MoZo (Amy was in attendance too) with a bit of a head cold, but was just dropping down the capo on the little parlour guitar and doing just fine. She managed to get in two vendetta songs “Kentucky” and “I got the Blues” taking care of Mike and Joy, and after the obscure Georgia songs round got going pulled out a new / improvised version of “Day in Georgia” from the first Pelusa record! (Those of you getting tired of the inside jokes – Pelusa was a band I started with Mike and Moe many years ago – that record came out in 2004.) If you want a copy I bet any one of us can dig them up from the basements, but whether we actually will is a different question…)

Either way – I love that song, it might be my favorite of Moe’s still.

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Finally – Joy Mills was showing off her new (old!) Gibson archtop, wow this is a fabulous guitar, my Cromwell is still a bit jealous, but I’m comforting him. What!? A guitar can’t be a boy?!

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Of course if I didn’t already mention it, MoZo are the rhythm section for the Starlings right now, so it was nepotism night! Hey wait a minute, how come I didn’t play? Soon enough my friends – see you all this Friday at Conor Byrne for the Willie Nelson tribute.