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part 4 Chasing The devil with God chasing me on this trail. #BlueBirdCafe Nashville Tennessee "If you can't rock any crowd. You just suck." links included underlined

Damn they called my number for a second song. I can't do "The Gun Show" because there is a police officer from Dallas. click here for link Watch video for GUN SHOW HERE I decide to use a song that I thought of when I left the Jackson Live contest in November 2015. Rain was falling hard on my windshield when I was driving from that contest in downtown Jackson click here to hear song I performed in contest . I thought to myself "Everything Falls Like Rain." When it rains I feel like my good friend Charles  click here to hear his music  is with me. Charles died two years ago. Charles used to challenge me by telling me I'd never do things. To spite him I put forth more effort. One line I used many years ago, "I got cracks in the floor where I pray" and a line from #BobDylan's "Highway 61 Revisited" click here to hear Dylan's song , "I got a hundred phones that never ring" created the song. Performing it for the first

(Chasing The devil with God chasing me on this trail. Part 3) #BlueBirdCafe Nashville Tennessee "If you can't rock any crowd. You just suck." links included underlined

Most of the crowd are their to watch. There were only twenty five of us chosen. Had to call a number between 12 and 1 pm. Took me twenty minutes to get the reservation to play open mic. 21 was my number. At the table there was a sixteen year old girl with her mother, they were from Canada. The girl's song was awesome. Also sitting with us was a family from Dallas, they were there to watch. The father is a police officer. He had been friends with the policemen killed. ...these gals and guys are good. I am outclassed. Gonnah make a fool of myself. I think the riff to "Hit That Road" is good.  Hit that Road SynergyNights  Original riff from  Me and Robin Lane There's hardly any room to walk. These acts are stellar. Kind of acts you'd see on mainstream tv and internet mp3s. They came from all over. A few of the acts were there from the UK-they sounded more American than some of the Country singers. Then there's me sounding like spoken word over acoustic slid

#BlueBirdCafe Nashville Tennessee "If you can't rock any crowd. You just suck." (Chasing The devil with God chasing me on this trail. Part 2)

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Saturday night I was performing my words at #SynergyNights at #TheMed in Jackson MS, the crowd was 300 blacks. I could be as raunchy as I wanted at SynergyNights. Hundreds of miles later, on a Monday night I'm at #TheBlueBirdCafe, the crowds about 300 whites all ages. I had the perfect joint in mind "Going to all the Wrong Places For The Right Things." The riffs are solid after performing it all Summer. "We have all ages in here tonight. Please keep that in mind. If you can't explain it to a child then you shouldn't do it," the host announced. "Damn it There goes that song. Now I have to do another one. There's no way I can talk about men using casinos as their home and banks, or using a bar tender as a therapist," I thought to myself. So I chose "Hit That Road"-a riff I picked up jamming with Robin Lane at The King Biscuit Festival last year. The words I connected with it at I had created at #SynergyNights. Many of the