Checkers' Acoustic Showcase 12/27/17

Set list:

Unchained Melody
Logic And Lies
Drawn In The Dark
Mercury Blues
Poor Poor Pitiful Me
For What It's Worth
Gold Dust Woman
Lovesong
Take It To The Limit
Turn The Page
Night Moves
Good Lovin
Ring Of Fire
Folsom Prison Blues
Mama Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up To Be Cowboys
Your Cheating Heart
Crazy Mama
Sweet Home Alabama

(and a few more songs that escaped me)

I sang on Logic And Lies, Drawn In The Dark, Ring Of Fire, Good Lovin
Julie Gordon sang and played guitar on the majority of the songs
Carl Meiners sang on Folsom Prison, Mama, Me And Bobby McGee, Your Cheating Heart
Dave Bonham sang on Take It To the Limit and Turn The Page
Richard played perucssion and sang backup
Rusty sang as well.

Julie Gordon And Dave Bonham were the hosts

Sonya Madden along with her Mom and Jason showed up.  Sonya took plenty of pictures.

(Jules and Acousta Crabby)

Julie has been stuck with the flu ever since coming back from California and tonight was the first time she felt better.  I'd say she was 50 percent better than she was last week, but even for a 2 and half hour jam, it did drained her as she fought through coughing and hacking and losing her voice.  For being sick, she sang quite well and looked great.  It was nice seeing my coworker Sonya popped up, just like she promised.

The intent was to limit Julie on singing but she sang along with me on For What Its Worth  before taking over Gold Dust Woman and Lovesong.  She sang Unchained Melody before I did my set and the two songs from Logic And Lies.  A new guy named Richard (who plays at Stone City Sunday Jams) did a lot of percussion work and sang too.  I also played along with Dave Bonham on a lot of songs that I wasn't familiar with and had to rely on him to show me the chords but Crazy Mama for a first time ever, wasn't too bad.

(with Dave Bonham)

Anyway, it was yet another musician's crowd tonight, the bonechilling weather didn't help things and people were getting ready to celebrate New Year's so hardly anybody was there.  Carl Meiners didn't leave for Arizona just yet so he was drafted to do a few songs.

(Carl Meiners, me, Richard, Rusty, Julie)

(with Sonya's mom Patty)

(and Sonya too!)

Notes:  Dave announced that he is going to be into the Davenport Blues Hall Of Fame in March.  Congratulations!