Donna Jo's Birthday Party Songlist

Songs

Sundown
If I Had My Way (the sermon of samson)
Fly Away Home
Good Time Charlie's Got The Blues

Julie Gordon-Percussion and backing vocal on Sundown
Carl Meiners-Mandolin on Fly Away Home and Good Time Charlie

Also with

Steve Black Wolf
Dave Bonham
Rose Slaymaker
Tim Nemec
Glen Gardner
Laurie Shuster
Mike Fredericks
Barb Myers
Lorie Parker
Luther Parker
Donna Jo Elsner
David Elsner
D J Hovenstot
P J Harrington
Pam Harrington

(Acousta Crabby and Julie too)

Notes;

I played percussion on Steve Black Wolf's set as well as part of Tim and Rose's set.

Barb Myers came up to play While My Guitar Gently Weeps with Dave Bonham playing guitar

Lorie Parker did her Bootyful song to close things out.

I returned back to play Sundown in the original format, the way that Gordon Lightfoot played it. Julie sang backup.

The next three songs made their debut, including Sermon Of Samson, one of the more off the wall songs I have done. I capo it at the 3rd fret to break up the G C D  method that most of the new songs played.  Due to time restrictions, I only did four songs, but I did play percussion from the rest of the night on.

The surprise was seeing Luther and Lorie show up tonight as well as Barb.  It was Donna Jo's birthday so that was as good as any reason to show up.  

They have started a blues jam down the Avenue of the Saints to Riverside at the Casino where Bob Dorr and Jeff Petersen have been hosting a new blues jam. Problem remains that Riverside is further here for me than it is going to Dubuque and maybe one day I'll venture down there.  As long as Julie has the Checker's jam going, I'll support her jam.  But they do get some major blues superstars down there (Ernie Pendleston, Kevin Burt) the past month.  I just don't feel ready yet to play blues guitar, drums no problem.  But I don't look at myself as a bluesman as say, Kevin or Bob Dorr for that matter.  My heart belongs to the garage rock, although I find playing country songs is very very easier than originally thought.

I messed up the beginning of Fly Away Home so I redid it again.  Nobody paid much attention to it.