The Wood ‘n’ Lips Open Mic Newsletter

Hi All,

After several weeks of , it looked like this week was going to be a small one, but people kept drifting in until we had a good crowd and nearly a full slate of performers.

6:30 Wood ‘n’ Lips: Yes, there really is a group called Wood ‘n’ Lips—me, Greg Gross, and Bari Zwirn.  We played the Kingston Trio’s M.T.A. and “Lemon Tree”; the Everly Brothers’ “Bye, Bye Love” and “All I Have to Do is Dream”; Ray Charles’ “Hit the Road Jack”; “Catch a Falling Star”; ”; Neil Sedaka’s“Breaking Up is Hard to Do”; Roger Miller’s “King of the Road”; “Five Foot Two”; and the Statler Brothers’ “Counting Flowers on the Wall”.

7:00 Bill Liscomb: Loves to write his own songs, his first this evening was from a road trip he just took, he calls it “I Wonder”; “Colorado” in which he wrote about a trek he took twenty years ago to Teluride; “Time in Hell”; and “Highway’s Child”.

7:15 John Movius: Was inspired by a recent Big Band Concert he attended, after an extended commercial, he played the non-big band Hank Williams’ “You Win Again”; Marty Robbins’ “Singing the Blues”;  and Buddy Holly’s “Every Day”.

7:30 David Farrel: Is another of the many who stowed their guitars at the advent of Disco, raised their children, and now are resurrecting their musical skills.  For his first set after a twenty-five year hiatus, he did a Bob Dylan tune, “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”; and Bill Withers’ “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone”.

7:45 Ray Poe with Les Armstrong & Alton Simpson: The Western band played Tom Waits’ “Invitation to the Blues”; George Jone’s “The Race is On”; Carl Perkins’ “Matchbox”; George Strait’s “All My Exes Live in Texas”; and Keith Whitley’s “I Never Go Around Mirrors”.

8:00:  Pamela Reinagel & Dan Strum: The pair, with Pamela singing and Dan on guitar, did Fred Neal’s “A Little Bit of Gray”; Boudeleaux Bryant’s “Love Hurt’s”; Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice”; and Townes VanZant “If I Needed You”.

8:15  Bob Arsenaut, Bob Cool and John Movius: Kicked off with “My Blue Ridge Mountain Home”; Bill Monroe’s “The Bluegrass Stomp”;  “November Rain”, and Bob Cool’s “San Diego Breakdown”.
8:30 Dan Strum: Returned to the stage for a solo set of “Been Out on the Road”; Guy Clark’s “Dublin Blues”; and Jerry Jeff Walker’s “Song For Life”.

8:45 Greg Gross:  Brought us the timely “They’re Closing the Bookstore Down” (even Borders’ is biting the dust), by John McCutcheon; Jimmy Buffet’s “Come Monday”; and Stan Rogers’ “White Squall”; Greg was joined by two of the fairer sex, Rose Scibelli and Sally McSparran, on Patti Page’s “The Tennessee Waltz”; and the traditional “I’ll Fly Away”.

9:00 Bob, Bob & John: Did an encore for us with “Bile them Cabbage Down”; “Grandfather’s Clock”; “Up Jumped the Devil”; and “Faded Love” and “Ashokan’s Farewell”.
Greg Gross and I closed the evening with Dale Evans’ “Happy Trails”.
It was a bit of a relaxed evening with a slightly smaller group.

Be sure to mark your calendars for the July 16th, at the Shopping Center’s Amphitheater in Santee. Celebrating ten years of the Wood ‘n’ Lips Open Mic, it will be from 10:00 in the morning until 6:00 pm with some of our best performers.
 
God Bless and have a good week.
 
Tim Woods, Greg Gross, and the Wood ‘n’ Lips open mic crew