Hey Nancy- I do enjoy Dry Branch Firesquad also. I am a B-grass dj at
WDVR-FM in NJ and this band is one of the most requested. I didn't know
much about the music until last year when the station owners wanted a
b-grass show! Being raised in the great state of TX, I cut my teeth on all
those trubadours from there. So since I have had this show, this countryboy
has realized that there is Great twangin in the Bluegrass genre! I sure do
miss my country roots though! RW Shamy
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Date: Saturday, January 30, 1999 12:36 AM
Subject: Dry Branch Fire Squad / need twangin songwriters
>Hey ya'll, been quiet and lurking past week, but had to let you know about
>this cool band I saw tonight.... Dry Branch Fire Squad. I have not been
this
>entertained in days... Any of you familiar with them? My boyfriend has all
>their records and knew everything about them. Bluegrass usually makes me
>nervous, but damn, they were good. Broke up all the 90 mile an hour solos
with
>some funny jokes, and great long winded stories about farming, naked
beaches,
>politics and everything else inbetween.
>
>Comedy, ham bonin, bluegrass, fine pickin, singin!
>
>Tomorrow night going to catch the last set of Iris Dement after I finish an
>acoustic thang I'm doing........
>
>Any of you songwriter twangers want to come to Memphis and play? I am doing
>two songwriter in the round things a month now, and would dig some Paul
Burch,
>Ex-hubbie Jim Roll types to rock the joint some, or as much as possible on
>acoustic. I do one downtown that is a "low dough" gig, but the newest one
at
>this east Memphis yuppy suburbia bar is a cool payin thing, plus you get to
>(or have to as some may say) hang out with me! Can come do the radio show
one
>afternoon, gig the next night, sleep on the couch, let my boyfriend cook
for
>us.... If any of you are passing thru Memphis, let me know when and if it
is
>on gig day, I would love to have ya!!!
>
>Here is one of the jokes that the band told earlier.... it is better live,
but
>here goes.
>"I thought honky tonk was the sound you got boppin a white guy on the head"
>
>Back to my cocktail..... Nancy
>
