Checker's Acoustic Showcase Finale

Host: Kevin Moore

Songs:

I Know You Rider
Sundown
Go Out And Get It
Turn On Your Love Light
Stop Draggin My Heart Around
Switch Board Susan
If You See Her
Logic And Lies
Dear Lisa
Dead Flowers
Jet Airliner/Summertime Blues
Little Sister (Attempted)

All Along The Watchtower
Bobby McGee
Good Time Charlie
Ole 55
For What It's Worth

With

Mark Awad-Bass  (All Along The Watchtower  through  For What Its Worth)


Notes:

Since the revamped Checkers Acoustic Showcases, the jammers have been very minimal.  Tonight, it was just me, the host Kevin Moore and Mark Awad who showed up to play bass.  There were extended bass solos on All Along The Watchtower and For What It's Worth. An earlier than usual bass solo on For What Its Worth,  I couldn't remembered the second verse till later.

Julie was sick with the cold so it was Kevin's show.  And he bought some nice speakers and monitors and I finally got to hear myself up close and personal.  Kevin prefers doing solo songs but he did use Mark on Ain't No Sunshine as I was returning back to work on a long lunch break.  With spring processing coming up next week, I will not able to take leisurely lunches like I have been this month.

It will be interesting to see who shows up next week when Julie returns with Ryan.  I do wish them well and would love to be there to help out, but the weather has been terrible and cold and nobody ever goes out in this weather.  And the weather is supposed to stay record cold for next week, tho' no big snowstorms are in the forecast.   Still, the lack of musician support has been a casebook in frustration and nothing I can do about it.  The promotion on Facebook has been limited at best and the crowd that supported Lorie and Cathy are not there for Julie.    But there'll be no Acousta Kitties reunion, that bridge has been burned.    Julie does her damnest to get the word out, but Facebook doesn't do shit for getting people to jams.  I know that all the well.

Tommy Bruner made a cameo but didn't play.  Ed Butler played Fairfield instead.

A note from Checkers'

Thank You so much Rodney. We appreciate all you do and thanks for sticking by us all along the journey - we hopefully still have some life in this Wednesday jam we just need some more great music lovers such as yourself to stop out and support it. Talk is cheap, Participation is Priceless.