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oh lol well thats nice then...
holler if you need sumthin,
LR

He does one called the 'day hank williams came to town' too... or was that waylon jennings? I don't know its still too early to think...
LR

Although alot of so called 'pure country' fans don't like to admit it, the blues has influenced nearly every style of American music in some way. Bluegrass developed from a type of folkish music which if I'm not mistaken was called 'grass roots', songs known by front porch pickers and an appalachian take on standard hymns. the fact that the fiddle, banjo, and mandolin, three of the most prominent bluegrass instruments, came from Africa suggests that early rural blues singers and freed slaves had some kind of influence on the first bluegrass pickers. Bluegrass seems to stay close to traditional gospel music, probably part of its growth came from playing out of the hymnals with thier own kind of instruments.
  Texas had a significant flow of Irish settlers, who brought with them a ballad style of song and a love for drinking. When Texas cowboy culture grew from this and met the mexican picking styles of the southwest, what emerged were large halls where people would meet to eat drink and listen to music. The 'western ballad' grew from this style of music.
  In louisiana you had cajun music, probably due to french influences, louisiana folks loved accordian.
    All across the south rural blues was springign up, in alot of ways the ideal of a guy singing alone with a guitar about love and loss and hopping trains can be accredited more to blues than anybody.
  NOW, when music started to be marketed you had variety radio shows. You were booked according to this standard, if you were white and from the south, you went under the 'Hillbilly music label', if you were black and from the south you were 'blues', and if you were from a big city like New York or something you were called 'Pop'. In the south there started to pop up these shows, where people from Texas, Louisiana, and Appalachia would meet to be on the hillbilly music radio. When these styles met, mixed with each other and in alot of ways with bluesy structures and ideals, there was given birth to..... drum roll.... country music.
While all of the styles that made country music continued to grow on thier own, bluegrass and country blues seemed to mix well togther, hence Hank Williams and Roy Acuff and Bill Monroe could all at thier own respective periods play the grand ole opry.
  Blues mainly, and even  a little bit of bluesy country pickin' went on to influence guys like Jerry Lee and Elvis and Johnny Cash, while the tunes of guys like Muddy Waters, in particular a song called 'rolling stone', drifted across the water, and the culmination of THOSE styles became rock and roll....
  Isn't it cool how music all ties in together? As far as that goes I could go on about how all these things found thier way back to America for guys like the Allman Brothers and Charlie Daniels Band, but I need to go finish getting ready for church.
  Hope this helps some doc. Merry Christmas by the way,
                                        LR

When I got home I was no alone
The police were there wae a fine toothcomb
I got burgled at eight  but  I canny moan
Im too drunk to care

  haha, good stuff upyerkilt. Don't have the scottish accent to match it unfortunately.... this is great ,
            LR

Thanks so much yall it really helps alot, I'll let you know bootlegger if we run into any problems but I think its gonna  turn out all right,
           LR

I think it'd be good idea to go for both, maybe open with some recognizable songs to warm the crowd, then throw one or two of thier own out there. While its a good idea to show off your playing skills on standards, eventually they're gonna need something to set them apart from everybody else, so they need to present original stuff too.
Good luck with everything,
               LR

Never gonna die and [D]all about fun
[Em]That is until I run
[G]Smack dab into [A]life [D]

One of your best yet jets!
    Love it,
                 LR

weeeelll.... let me think, I can give you a top 5...

(in no particular order)

long haired country boy
folsom prison blues
unforgiven II
free bird
i just aint been able

yeah Big N Rich IS country... well they call themselves that anyway. Got some pretty good tunes, I like that 'six feet down' song. My favorite thing about them is 'two foot fred'
I'll go check out the strokes though, thanks again yall,
                                                                                 LR

baw it da baw di dang di dang diggy diggy....
  lol Kid rock, he makes me laugh sometimes.

awesome, I love BB king.
   And dig that suit jacket! ,
                                       LR

Well today the "younguns" came over to eat, (thats my name for our organists wife's two kids), so my room is one big  mishapen tent/clubhouse, I probly won't get it cleaned up for a week.... but oh well, I have to admit I enjoyed it too .
Today I'm kind of sad for a little boy that goes to our church... when we scolded him for knocking a chair over he started hitting himself real hard in the head and when we asked him why all he would say was 'my daddy calls me a retard'... poor little fella.
Besides that though I'm doin' pretty good though, have to go on one of those akward youth fellowhips tonight, but I'm used to sundays being busy these days...
  Glad to hear you're feelin' better jas. Holler if you need sumthin,
                                                                                           LR