Guest Book

Good Monday morning, all! What a wonderful weekend!! First - I loved seeing so many familiar and now newly familiar faces. The gathering at the HTN party was wonderful. Plenty of room to hang comfortably with the music just washing all over us as we caught up and perma-grins began to set in. What a fine night at Lucille's with the BFB - boys from 'bama! I really loved the the Lefty Collins trio. You want to hear some funky bass? Jon Player brings on the double funk. His bass is just as beautiful to look at as it is to hear. What beautiful wood. Major mojo going on there. He absolutely was named appropriately!! Tommy Booth got to get his hands on that 6 string for a couple of tunes. Looked like he was having himself some fun, too! Mr. Henderson on the drums kept moving all night and anytime I see someone that can drum and sing at the same time I'm amazed. I'm lucky I can strum my fingers and tap my foot at the same time. Both he and Mr. Player added some nice new songs with their vocals. Fire on the Bayou? C'mon! Spanish Moon?? Are you kidding me? Really cool. We were also lucky to have JP Vancura in the house to bring out some of the other Lefty Collins & No Mercy Band tunes. Lots of fun and smiles on the stage and around the room. And the room was packed. Even before the after ABB crowd showed up. Jr. Mack sat in for a few tunes and really kicked things up a notch. This man knocks my socks off. To get to hear him earlier at the HTN party with JJB and then a second time with Lefty was a real treat. Speaking of Jr. - last Saturday night JFC and I were all settled in watching Moogis and during the intermission there was a tune playing that was really grabbing my ear. I asked - "Who is this??" JFC didn't know, either so I said - "Text Peachnutt, he'll know." A text came back with "possible Otis Rush but not sure." Hmmmm...okay. So I start googling Otis with the last line of the song that I jotted down. "I know someday my trouble's bound to come" but nothing came up. Shazbot. Fast forward a week and JFC and I are grooving to the very tasty Jaimoe's Jassz Band and I picked up the 2 CDs from the HTN merch table. When We were back at my place on Sunday, we popped JJB in the player and BAM! After about a half hour, there's the song!!!! It's none other than a Jr. Mack original - "I believe I'll make a change" Nice!!! I found the song that was pulling on my ear. Or, it found me is more like it. Sweet!! FrimJolly - did your face end up in Chinatown, by chance?! 😀