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I like this place.
Earlier this week, I was talking to my friend Dan Emmett who has spent a good bit of his time in Nashville playing around, and he was telling me the spots to hit. So he suggested the Douglas Corner Cafe and I heeded his advice. I chose Wednesday, March 18th to venture into this bar, and as it turns out, I picked a great night (I'm good like that usually).
It was a Songwriters benefit for Cheryl the bartender, who apparently broke her foot. No doubt it was due to some heroic story that involved charging through brimstone and fire to save a small child from drowning in a bubbling pool of angry magma. Or not. Well, whatever the story, she broke her foot, doesn't have insurance, blah blah blah, we all know the story. I picked a good night.
The door guy was quite hospitable and took my $7 from me kindly. I walked on down the hallway to an open room and a decent sized stage to my right. Blue velvet curtain. Cool. The next act was just starting so I grabbed a seat in the middle of the room, behind the 20 or so people sitting more towards the front. Cheryl was stage left in front with her beneficial foot raised proudly. There was a laminated sign on the table that said "Minimum $4.00 per person food/drink charge to sit at tables". I proudly turned the sign over and ignored the stupid thing.
On stage was Greg Crowe & Jimbeau Hinson. I had seen Greg Crowe around town a few times, seen his face that is, not knowing who he was, but knowing he was somebody. Not that everybody isn't somebody, but you know what I mean, somebody who has their stuff together and who makes things happen. I can tell by observing someone, even for a few minutes, if they are someone I should know. And, as everyone here already knows and I am figuring out, this is a big little town. So back to the show...
The first song I heard was "Party Crowd". As I listened to the lyrics, tappin my toes, a slow smile spread across my face, taking over any lingering thoughts bouncing around my head. "Tonight, I'm looking for a party crowd, slammin 'em back, laughin out loud..." I really started digging it. One particular lyric made me remember a bar I used to go to every weekend. The Dixie Tavern on Windy Hill Rd in Scary-etta. "...dancin over here, fightin over there..." We've all been to that kind a bar and had that kinda night. I laughed out loud when I heard: "It'll dawn on me tomorrow, I'll look back, try to recall, where the F%#'s MY TRUCK?!"
The next act that caught my attention was Jonelle Mosser. You may have heard her singing "Stop In the Name of Love" on the Hope Floats soundtrack. Her soulful powerful voice commanded everyone in the room to listen to her. Ya know how when the Fonz walked in the room and the jukebox stopped, only for him to snap his magical fingers and miraculously, it turned back on? Well, this was kinda like that. But different.
The last act of the evening was Lauren Lucas. And man was it well worth the wait. Her voice flooded the room with a raw emotion that can only be felt. Her sweet demeanor and confidence on stage was obviously genuine and I couldn't get up to go pee for fear I would miss a few minutes of her too short set that night. I had the pleasure of meeting her and talking with her earlier, completely unbeknownst to me that she would be performing that night (ya see what I mean, about being a magnet for certain types of people?). All I can say is that YOU (yes, YOU) should make it a POINT to get out of your house, off your couch and into the real world and see and hear for yourself this amazing artist. Ya know how some songs just stick with you, days alter, even though you've only heard it once in your life ever? Well, my favorite lyric of my favorite song of hers that night is "If ya get what you give, then honey spend your time on me" AMEN sista!
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