With Larry Dean & wife Rosey taking a well-deserved vacation, some of this area's finest musicians gathered at the BK tonight to help fill the void. Scott Lane, who has appeared here several times in the past and whose band, the Brush Hogs plays at several local venues, started the evening off with "Oh, Lonesome Me" and "Whiskey Bent & Heaven Bound." Scott returned a little later to put his talents to work on "This Killin' Time Is Killin' Me," Marty Robbins' "El Paso, " Waylon's "Lukenbach Texas" with David Purcell singing the Willie Nelson parts and "Louisiana Saturday Night."
David chose a Garry Bichelmeyer tune, "Northern Star" to start his set, then it was another Willie sound-alike of "Remember Me," Merle's "It's Not Love But It's Not Bad" and Old Blue Eyes' "On The Road Again." to the delight of the big crowd tonight. As well as doing his usual excellent job on the lead guitar tonight, Gordon Riley did a bang-up job singing Merle Haggard's "Big City" and with John Malone and the rest of the band played the beautiful "Bells Of St. Mary." We felt blessed to be able to see and hear "Marvelous" Marvin Bredemeier again tonight, so soon after our trip to Iowa last Sunday. Cranking up that fiddle, it was first "Buttermilk Skies," "Sugar Foot Rag," "The Waltz I Saved For You," "Smoke Smoke Smoke That Cigarette" (vocals & fiddle) and the classic "Rubber Dolly."
Mary Bichelmeyer does an excellent job every Tuesday on the electric bass and tonight did a swell job singing the Judd's "Grandpa" and "I'm Blue Again" as well. Hubby Garry can not only write some great songs, but is quite a vocalist in his own right. Tonight it was Hank's "Kaw-Liga," "Bustin' Up Rocks," "Marie" and "Tonganoxie," the last three, his compositions. Pama Weaver played rhythm guitar this evening and sounded so good singing Hank Sr.'s "When My Sweet Love Ain't Around" and "Jimmy Brown The Newsboy." Annie Little did her usual great job on "Somewhere Between Me And You" and "Let Me Be There" and it was so nice seeing Connie Henry drop in tonight and get a big hand as she sang "You Win Again" and "It Don't Hurt Anymore."
Garry Bichelmeyer closed the evening with a Terry Smith gospel number "The Farside Banks Of Jordan." (Below) Connie Henry, Scott Lane & Marvin Bredemeier
