Parlor City Blues Jam-Blue Rox and Friends

Songs:

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Shame, Shame Shame
Folsom Prison Blues
Six Days On The Road
Johnny B  Goode
Shake Rattle And Roll
Evil Ways


Doug Ducey-Guitar and vocals
Kris Briles-Lead vocals and lead guitar
Brian Briles-Guitar and vocals
Morris-Guitar
Byron Stevens-Bass
Nick Lnenicka-Harmonica

Dan Johnson, Tommy Giblin and Jim Viner-Hosts and good people

Notes:

Another small crowd (most were at Checkers for the Kevin Burt get together) but I managed to play a about a hour long set before we closed down.   I think Doug did play a couple more songs but I can't think of them right now.

This was a warm up before the Blues Rox gig on Saturday. Great job from Kris on his guitar playing.

Outside of that, it's been a bad week.  Julie and I went to watch Matilda the Musical and she managed to hang in there despite having a cold and a hurting hip. And then Monday, her house caught on fire. However, she is all right and so are her furbabies but the house is a mess.  I stopped by and it was depressing sight. Everything is blackened inside.

In this life there are folks that live a charmed life and can't do no wrong (as evidenced by the BS artist in the white house)  and there are folks that live comfortably, and some that live from paycheck to paycheck and then there are some that get kicked when they're are down.  Julie is the female version of Job.  I have never seen anybody that had such rotten luck in the four years of knowing her.  And seeing what can go wrong does go wrong.



I cannot fathom what I seen through the blackened windows and the darkness inside her house.  The guess is that the fire was a electrical malfunction.  In the meantime the Cedar Rapids City Council, all bought and paid for by Cargill, gave that place the Butterfly sanctuary and walking trail in the flood plain.

This world doesn't make sense to me anymore.  Greed is rampant, people don't care and big money and developers are turning this into a nightmare place to be.

For that 45 minutes of playing tonight, I forgot about the cruel world and jammed with my musician buddies.  A moment's pleasure in a year long of pain.