I've played in numerous churches across east/southeast texas. Ive also played funerals, done the half time show with the 'family band' at "singin's" and gospel concerts.Met some er interesting people, like I found about the east texas accordian convention in Longview, and a dude named Cobb, ex prison convicts, a few so called 'big dogs' of the Texas baptist convention, the guy who won the teenage state championship guitar contest thingy,an elvis impersonator, a real descent local country band named 'boomtown'.....
Probly what I'm best known for around here though is the family wide (and here the term 'family' includes cousins, uncles, cousins I call uncle, etc. etc.) jam sessions which take place in our big blue junky dodge van. We ride around in this thing with guitars mandolins, banjos, singin' hank williams and all kinds of stuff. We just roll around town that way, been to the mall, gas stations, even made a trip to lousiana.....
this last time I was playing at a church in Kirbyville, just past Call, little bitty place with an out of tune piano, but we got that little place hoppin'. The infamous pastor of the ebenezer baptist church was there, and the also infamous "friend" person who I can't call by name. He's dating the mother of a psyco youth camp counsellor who goes by the name 'Momma Donna'. He looked kind of like one of those countin' mules, you know you ask em what four plus plus four is and they stomp that one leg. When he preached he got all worked up and red in the face shake them big cheeks and holler (and i mean holler) and would kick that little stubby leg around and kind of turn back and forth in place. He tore down the whole dern country and everything in it, nearly foamin' at the mouth about how low down no good everybody in the world had become, said queer from the pulpit and accidentally admitted to having gay tendencies, and he finally closed out by walking down from the pulpit hollerin' about the 'unnatural affections of the human body' till he nearly busted a blood vessell..... but I think he forgot to mention Jesus lol
Stubby little fella, but we had that music jumpin' in there I tell you what, its a shame he had to give such a depressin' message (not that he was neccesarily wrong but Lord it'd been nice if he'd give a little bit of hope at the end, open the altar or sumthin'), cuz I thought we did a pretty good job.
My friend was back playin with the sound system remote on the back pew so its a good thing we werent plugged into the microphone. I remember the preacher's cell phone goin' off during the song service "On the road again....."
Anyway it was alot of fun, piled back into our junky blue van and had to drive an hour and a half back home but I was too wore out to have a jam session this time.
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