Saturday, March 29, 2008












These were taken at The Connection -- way out on Dyer Street. I don't remember which group I was with. It doesn't matter. You're up there playing "Silver Wings" -- three! four! one! dow-dow-dow-dow-dow-dow-boom! -- and everybody hits an E chord. Then you swill some beer. If you're lucky, somebody's blouse will fall off. Then it's Cotton-Eyed Joe and the Schottische. The other guys can't spell it. You're at the mic shouting "bull****" and a line of dancers comes at you backwards. They plow into the bandstand and knock the mic into your teeth. Then you swill some more beer...

With Ernest Tubb ~ 1980



Jamming with D.L. Menard