Weekend Jams-Stone City/Waubeek Dec 2019

Stone City Songlist:

Fox On The Run
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Just To Satisfy You
Everybody's Talking
Good Time Charlie
Cinnamon Girl
For What Its Worth
Gold Dust Woman

Steve Black Wolf-Backing Vocals on Everybody's Talking and For What Its Worth
Danny Trumm-Harmonica on Good Time Charlie
Kimberly Trevellion-Lead Vocal on Gold Dust Woman

Plus Hanging with Carl Meiners and Mikey Fredricks on a few numbers.

(Brian Briles: Photo)

Waubeek All Stars:

Phil Koening
Dave Bonham
Nelson Borden
Maki Dervo
Richard Budde
Lenny Drake
Kris and Brian Briles
Danny Trumm
Freddy Jones
Katy Merrifield
David Lam
Kirksey
Dave Pedersen
Jeff Schmidt
Steve Threault
Hootie
Dougie Koviak
Richard Rystrom
Lee "Big Daddy" Kohl
Crabbapple Crunchberries

Friday:  With Steve Black Wolf and Julie Gordon at Checkers, played percussion on Jockey Full Of Borbon and guitar on For What Its Worth

Notes:

The Waubeek jam this month was a lot more fun.  Richard Budde came back to play drums for a while.  Since Joe Hutchcroft still had my Rutes (and I have given up hope of getting them back  again) Richard was kind enough to forward me 20 dollars for the trouble.  Very nice of him to do that.  So he got to jam on Steve O's song as well as David and Jeff's set.   The female drum basher Chris went back to Kansas.  However, this was Maki's most time playing drums since I have been bringing them. I did need the rest.

(Diana Conwell-Koening: Photo  L to R Nelson Borden, Phil Bo King, Lenny Drake, Chuck Savage)

Again Blues Rox (Kris and Brian Briles) did a very good set, despite Brian being under the weather.  They did start early and did very well.

(L to R: Phil Bo King, Kris Briles, Brian Briles- Blues Rox in action)

There was plenty of hi jinx.  Phil Bo King's set was a lotta messing around, including my tribute to Rick Allen of Def Lepherd fame, dropping a drumstick on one song and playing with one stick, it was a slow blues number anyway.  Lotta fun.  Brian took a few interesting shots of me being a ham behind the drums.  Probably some of the best pictures of me yet.

Dave Bonham finally brought that Rod Smith for Mayor sign up there and I used it as the front for the drums.  I don't think he really wanted me to play drums in his setlist, so I just did some cymbal accents and left it at that.

Richard Budde backed up Jeff and Dave Pedersen, Dave played a Whiskeytown cover and the 100's Take The Gravel Home.  I kinda wished I could have played drums for them but since Richard was still on stage, they went with him.  He did well.


The Waubeek jam started at 8 and finished around 1 30 AM and I managed to tear down and get home and unloaded the drums and still made it to bed before 3 30 AM.  The Boy Scout Hippies were playing CRL, Rocky Smith and Chain Reaction was playing Deb's Bar in Anamosa and Kimberly and Blue Scratch were at Coralville and couldn't participate.   Notes From The Underground played Solon.

Sunday:  I limited myself to stay around Stone City and hang out at the General Store.  I really didn't feel like going into town after playing the night before.  Kimberly stepped in for Julie on Gold Dust Woman (actually Kimberly has been the one singing that song in quite a while) and I let Danny play harmonica on Good Time Charlie and Steve Black Wolf on Everybody's Talking and For What Its Worth.  When I'm tired, my voice goes into a lower register.  It worked fine.  The only surprise was a thrown together Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.   It was a sparse crowd in Stone City, Sam got a encore set. (Basically I fulfilled my obligations by helping Carl on his set and besides I really didn't have many songs to play anyway).

Afterwards, I backed Carl Meiners and Mike Fredericks with their songs.  Carl is always a pleasure  to jam with.

Kimberly did make it to Rumors to jam with the guys.  As well as Ron and Dakota (Boy Scout Hippies).

The old photo above is proof that the railroad did go through Stone City next to the General Store, but the only reminder is old rail bridge reef.  You'd never know that two tracks went though town.

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