Asleep At the Wheel performed in (Baltimore) Dundalk, MD this evening. The band was real tight. Ray mentioned they are heading for Willie's Picnic.
They had a new singer that Ray said joined them the last month or so. Elizabeth McQueen, if I got her name right. If you get to the Picnic make sure you hear this lady. She ain't all that big a lady, kind of skinny to an old dude like me, but she has a voice that is big, full, and just downright great!
Her voice might knock your socks off!!!
I was really impressed and that don't happen all that often with me. Too many singers I hear, male or female, are trying to imitate some big star. She didn't! When she belts out a song, you is probably gonna remember her.
After she belted out her first song the crowd started yelling "More! More!" Later she did a couple more songs. Her electric rythmn guitar picking was flawless. She hit every chord exactly right.
The steel picker, not sure I got his name right, Eddie Rivers?, played a double neck Fender on them big, long stand-up legs. He played a mean sax, too. I wanted to ask him what his tunings were but after leaving the stage, the area where they were was completely fenced and required a badge to enter it. I assume one neck was C6.
His picking was just great. I never learned the C6 neck but played around with it in my younger days playing a triple-neck Gibson with them long stand-up legs.
These days I sit on my big fat butt at a double neck, E9th and C6th, and often wish I had taken the time to learn C6th. Got ten floors, seven of which are C6th. Sure would be fun to see what I could do with them and the three knees. If I get back to the Slabs this winter, I may sit down and play around with the C6 neck.
Anyone who can play C6 good certainly has my admiration for being able to do it.
Roger Woods<font size="1" color="#8e236b"><p align="center">[This message was edited by Roger Woods on 02 July 2005 at 10:57 PM.]</p></FONT>
I mean it in a nice way