We had 11 performers ranging in age from 12 years old (Ryan Klein) to 60's (Dennis Kaylor) with a wide range of music, everything from cowboy, folk, ballads, praise and worship, country, and singer songwriter, most of it original.  Carlo performed three new cat songs.  Eddy Leverett was a first timer doing cowboy songs complete with cowboy hat and great mustache.  Ed Brown did three originals in a country vein, Dennis did three originals in a folk vein, Blake Scott does country covers with his great voice as did Fred Roberts, but in a folk vein.  Dennis Speegle came and did some great p

John Lott was in great form, funny, great songwriting and guitar work, irreverent but reverent, protesty, hard core life which is his specialty.  He performed a few covers, but mostly his own stuff, he even let me play along on banjo on a couple of folk songs.  John came with a band, Wayne Brown on drums, Gregg on bass and James Taylor played lead guitar. Their style is folk to folk rock with some blues thrown in.  James is a phenomenal guitar player and they do a wonderful rendition of Freebird.  Jame played by himself for part of the show and stopped the crowd in its tracks with an

What a show...probably the best we have ever had here!!!

Hi Folks,
This is the other half of Berkeley Bob's (some ask me if I'm "Mrs. Berkeley" when I meet them!!) and of course I always respond "yes".
I've never blogged in my entire life but I just had to tell of something wonderful that happened here at our coffee house this past Saturday.
I left Bob at home and headed off to the coffee house in the early afternoon but sidetracked to Cracker Barrel for one of their great desserts (which I only ate half of!) first.

6/6/09 This was a singer songwriter night featuring Tom King, Dennis Kaylor, and Will Gay. Tom played for the first hour and did many of his wonderful standards and some new ones.  He is a big guy who wears a cowboy hat, with a deep bass voice and real laid back.  He is a great songwriter and poet and most of his songs come from his own life's exeriences and tell neat stories or have great morals. He performed Frank and Jessie Robbed the Trains, Redneck Mother in Law, Don's Lunch, In My Next Life, Colorado Kid and Cherokee Kid all which he has performed here before.

5/21/09 Nashville performers Jenni and Rory Partin really put on a really good show.  They alternated a half hour each and they have such different styles, it was really two great shows. Rory travels with an 18 piece band which he fronts and they travel all over.  He opened with two of his big band songs "Don't Get Around Much Anymore" and "It Had To Be You".  He has a really great voice and even in our small coffee house with only a guitar accompanyment, pulled it off.

I will be updating my April blog shortly

March 26 We had some really great music last weekend. Friday night Tom King performed and Sat night it was Lolly Lee's turn.

February 28 We had probably the best (most fun) karaoke night last night since we began. Some of the usual crowd was there, but many were not because of the weather (threat of severe storm and tornados), but some of our morning regulars showed up and showed out and we all had a blast. It was great. Thanks Connie, Sam, Kent, Mary Beth and even Mary for sharing your singing and comedianic talents with "I've Got Friends in Low Places". Some one said they didn't think a karaoke in a dry county could be so much fun. Many of us are looking forward to the the next time.

February 27 I would be remiss not to comment on the earthshaking events taking place in Washington and on the political scene. I saw Presidents Obama's speech the other night and have to say that it ranks up there with the best. The best political speakers of my lifetime were JFK, Ronald Reagan, Bill Clinton and now Barack Obama. He is a Master Speaker. You automatically want to believe it all and hope it can all come to pass. So articulate, so sincere, so charming. I personally hope he can pull it off, but do not really see how he can without changing us in ways that we cannot even fathom now. There has probably not been another time like this since FDR and before him Abraham Lincoln and before him George Washington. I am not comparing Pres Obama to them, I am saying that the times are just as trying now and the stakes just as high. I don't doubt we need change, and mega change, however when change comes, it always brings doubt and risk and it takes strong souls not to shrink from it. I hear the Republican naysayers, but they had their chance and blew it and none of us are any better off because of the last 8 years. But still they harp on the same issues that sunk us and didn't and can't work and will not come up with new ideas or even work with the Democrats to modify some of their radical ideas to something less radical that may work. They therefore have marginalized themselves and somehow are waiting for America to "wake up" and return to their stale, inept and impotent ideas. Never happen. But the Democrats, who could do so much now, are pushing not only for needed change, but beyond that to pet socialistic, or at best paternalistic projects that could fundamentally change us as a country. Few of us really want that either. Working together in the spirit of compromise (anybody remember that word?)they could really re-energize and revitalize this country to rise to a new level of innovation, growth and influence in the world. I hope we don't blow it, but am afraid we will. Catering to the rich, influencial, and powerful class (they think of themselves as the elite, more intelligent and able to guide us to utopia) with mega billions of our money to stabilize the same old stale, self serving institutions that were the bullworks of a failed capitalism, and after all they have done to screw us financially because of their greed and selfishness, doesn't make sense. Give the money and power to those who can truly make the changes we need, those who have an abundance of good old Yankee ingenuity and work ethic, the American people. They are the only ones who can bring us out of this. Lets give them a chance.