5/16 Lux Kings @Willie's - A Review

ahhh, monday gigs.....

Monday nights can go either way at Willies. It's hard to get our friends to come out on a Monday intown. There is no big blues scene, even though this is the top blues club in the south. We rely on luck, a decent mailing list, local friends and hopefully a group from a local hotel in town for a convention. Sometimes we get all 4. This night we got our friends and a few locals, but no dancers. I give it a 3.5 out of 5 (and we've had 5's there)

Monday was also the debut of my new pickups (Fender Lace Sensor) which sound great but were wired wrong, so I had to noodle with my volume knobs all night & was a little distracted by this.

Highlight was a 4 song set with Adam (a mini Stonesouls reunion)

1. Built For Comfort (Willie Dixon)
2. Little Girl (Blues Breakers)
3. I'm So Glad (Cream)
4. I've Got a Feeling (The Beatles)

Crowd went nuts for Black Magic Woman and Cools Me To The Core. We chickened out on the two new covers Sometimes Salvation and Spanish Castle Magic. More rehearsal is needed. There are also 3 new original songs that if the night was crazier, we would have played them, warts & all...hopefully these will all see the light of day soon

My favorite moment was when we played a requested Little Wing and all decided independently to play the Derek & The Dominos version (with the dual vocals) The fact that we even knew the song (I think we've played it once in 3 years) was impressive on it's own.

The next gig will be what this one should have been