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Where are you pickin steel this New Years Eve?

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Our Gig: Me and the Country Junction Band will playing be at VFW Post #5706 in Franklin, KY 8pm till 1am. Plenty of good country music, good thangs to eat & drink plus lots of fun bringing in the New Year. Nick

Hi Nick I am Playing With The Misty Blue band At The 534 Club In Swinney Switch Texas , 8till 12.00 ,Come On Down If You Can. Happy Holidays Your Pal Randy Gilliam, From China Grove Texas.

We are playing at Shadybrook Golf Club, about 5 miles east of Catfish Johnny's in Lake Panasoffkee, FL.

For the 4th consecutive year, I will be playing at Shenanigan's in Texas City, with my good friends the Cimarron Band. This year we will have the distinct honor of having my very own daughter Madalyne playing fiddle with us!!

I am more excited for this gig than any other I've played in the last 10 years - we will be doing stuff like Cherokee Fiddle, Play Born to Lose Again, Miami my Amy, and many other tunes of a similar vintage!

Happy Holidays to all, and be safe out there on NYE!!!

At the Army Navy Air Force Club aka "The Hut" in Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada with "Rod Bray & The Countrymen" old time country music, Happy New Year!

I'll be playing at Leon Springs Dancehall San Antonio, Tx. I'll be playing my 14th New Year's Eve with Billy Mata and the Texas Tradition. Right in my backyard. We'll be playing Western Swing, Shuffles and waltzes. Doesn't get much more country than that.

Ropers in Sealy,Tx. with Greg Kent and Lonely Road. Jody.

"Country Express" will be keeping it country at the fire hall at Margaretville, NY from 9:00 to 1:00. We are lucky to have a large, mostly gray haired following, and they rent the fire hall and hire us to lead the party three or four time a year. There will be a buffet table at one end with lots of eats and snacks, a punch bowl and a coffee pot, and lots of tom foolery at midnight!
Larry J.

I'll be playing with Rough Country, at the Jonesville Eagles Club, Jonesville, MI

I’ll be playing solo dobro at Miro Bistro, an upscale restaurant in downtown Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, from 6:00 PM until 10:00 PM. I have to admit it won’t be all country. There is also a bit of pop-jazz, 1960’s rock, and new-age improv stuff (hey – I gotta fill close to 4 hours!).

I will be in Abilene with the Zach Edwards Band....(wearing earplugs)...LOL

I'm at the Cinnabar Theater in Petaluma California with the musical production of Always...Patsy Cline.

Bryan, that sounds very interesting. Will you be using backing tracks?

Oh, I will be playing New Years Eve with "One Way Flight" at The Kibler Free Will Baptist Church, Van Buren, AR. Merry Christmas and Happy New Year to All.

Jerry

Our band Southern Okie,s will be playing at the senior citizen in Duncan, Ok.Play there every year and have a great bunch of folk,s.3 of us have been together since 1968. Oh yea 7 mile,s from home. I sure am proud of our little band==Jim Harper

I will be playing with the Country Pride band at Enid Moose Lodge from 9:00 till 1:00 and doing good ol' classic country with a bit of 50's rock thrown in.
We usually have pretty big crowds there on New years eve and a good time----breakfast served at 12:30am.

Happy New Year----Jack

Jerry Roller -
I don't use backing tracks. I've developed a form of chord - melody playing on this Hawaiian instrument. With the dobro's major chord tuning layout, this style requires quite a bit of initial arranging, and I have to choose tunes quite carefully.
The presentation seems to be working pretty well. I've played in this restaurant for about a year and a half, irregularly, about once a month.

Bryan, I hoped that was the case. Do you have any CD's or recordings of your playing? I'll bet it is very nice stuff.
Jerry

I'll be playing with Ray, Johnny, Jake and Bobby in my living room again this year. Don't pay much, but don't have too far to go..

mike

If everyone will promise not to come out and mob the place, I'll be at the Western Place Club just south of Fort Worth.

6-10p Nashville Twinnseess home of the family perdition where a country boy jam-bal-i.
Country music singers have always been a fandam-ily ya know !


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Jerry Roller -
I have a Facebook page. I just made and posted a video a couple of days ago of one of the acoustic lap steel tunes, plus one of Spanish guitar playing.
None of my solo stuff is on CD yet. There is a youtube presentation coming up, "soon" I'm told, on my busking with dobro on the youtube page of picker999:
http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 1A53EAEFB8
My playing as a sideman is well demonstrated on Charlie Ewing's CD, Cowboy Ways. I play bottle-neck guitar, electric lap steel, and dobro on this CD. Some samples are at:
http://cdbaby.com/cd/charlieewing
I also did some recent session work for a CD by local artist Dusty Dee Litchfield. Release date is unknown to me.

In the old dance hall at Luckenbach TX, with Bo Porter. Also on the bill will be the excellent Mike Blakely, with (I assume) the fine Scott Martin on steel.

Scary... 8,000+ members and a full 20 replies!.. yup we're doin' great gettin'gigs! bob

Maybe there WOULD be more replies if not for things like this:

Please just list those gigs where it's gonna be Country Music. Most of my friends & post observers don't care for that alternative stuff.

Really? Didn't know "most post observers" had a spokesman who essentially says "don't bother us with anything outside our little happy box".

I'll be working NYE - And I guarantee you won't like it. It will be a nice mellow church New Years' Eve party - with classic rock, Motown, Who tunes, Stones, Skynyrd - on the few "country" songs I'm playing bender Tele - and playing steel (and Tele) on the rock and some soul stuff.

Oh - and it'll be LOUD and I'll try to use distortion so any stray steel players will know it's rock. Don't want to cause any confusion, since it's distortion that defines the style.