Big Whiskey Social Club at Mona's "Fifty and Fabulous" Party

Big Whiskey Social Club was lucky enough to play at Mona's fiftieth birthday party at the Irasburg Town Hall on 3/14/15.  Overall, we played pretty well.  Our tempos were better than at Brewski's and our set was rounded out by Mona singing some tunes.  However, there was too much space between a lot of songs and as the last set went on we got tired - I'd conducted the jr high festival the night before.

SET ONE

Drink in my hand - Stu

Watermelon Crawl - Stu

Little less talk - Stu - It seems like this one started weird, like John started it instead of Stu.

Cocaine Blues - Stu

I hold on - John

Sweet Home Alabama - Andre

Possibly at this spot in the set Mona joined us.  She started with Landslide, which was just her and John.  Then we played Melissa Etheridge's "Come to my Window."  I read Mona's music.  I think we followed that with Rhiannon.  Mona asked if I was going to sing backup on it and I responded with "Hell, no!"  Even if I could hit the right note, the bass part would have kept me from doing it.  Her last one at this point was Summer of 69.  She read my music, but it was printed so small!

 

Born on a Bayou - Stu

Get rhythm - Stu - I think we skipped this one again.

Big Green Tractor - Stu

Friday night - Andre

God bless Texas - Stu

SET TWO - There was great energy in the room when we played this one.

Kickit in the Sticks - John

Neon light - Andre

Cruise - John - People loved it.

achy breaky heart - St

Something about a truck - Stu

Country Girl - John

Folsom Prison - Stu

Can't You See? - Stu

How I got to be this way- Bill - Much better with the stops and everything.  Still not sure I got the bridge, but Deb even admitted that I sounded ok.

Take a little ride - Stu

Wagon Wheel - Stu - We played this one too slow

My kind of night - Andre

Booze Cruise - Stu- Great one.

SET THREE

Parking Lot Party - Andre

Save a horse - John - people like this one

Homegrown Honey - Stu - much better tempo.  Got all the hits

Mona came up again, and we played Long Train Runnin' and Black Velvet.  Black Velvet was weird because I'm pretty sure we got some chords wrong.  Through all of her pieces, Mona sang with such confidence and strength, even if we weren't playing that way.

Aw naw - Bill - I would still like to hear myself better.  Pretty sure I started on the wrong note (still fit into the chord, but...)

Sweet Caroline - Stu - We switched keys back to Neil's key, but we were getting tired.  John & I kept disagreeing on chords.

5-1-5-0 - Stu

In the AM - John

Turn the Page - Stu - This went well.  I focused on hearing the vocals during John's solo.

Boys 'round here - Stu - Too slow

Red Solo Cup - Andre - This tune isn't going over very well anymore.

Family tradition - Stu

Honky Tonk Be-donk-e-donk - Stu

Copperhead Road - Stu

Ain't Worth the Whiskey

Mona asked us to do Wagon Wheel again.  She jumped up and sang harmonies.  During the tune, I lost power to the effects board.  I unplugged from it and went directly into the amp.

At this point we could have ended, but we played one more, and it was a good one:

Coming to your City - John