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KUDZOO Magazine Presents Texas Comes To Town
A Benefit for Hearts of the South Billy Eli, Donnie Winters, Silver Travis Band, Hash-a-Plenty All Stars November 10 2012
The Cellar Club, Spartanburg, SC
and I was really getting pumped for the Saturday show.
The event began with our usual acoustic songwriters circle, with Billy Eli, Donnie Winters, myself and Randall Calvert, who was kind enough to jump in at the last minute when we discovered that Justin McCorkle would be unable to make this show. Of course, Justin is always there for us, and we love him for it. Matter of fact, so is Randall and the whole Silver Travis Band. We all took turns pulling out songs, and it was great fun. There’s no way I can remem- ber all of the great songs, but I will say it was one of the most musically fun acoustic seg- ments so far, with bookends Donnie Winters and Randall Calvert adding lead fills to all of our tunes. I was happier than a pig in slop. Donnie Winters gets me every single time. His song “Rosita,” with it’s Marty Robbins sounding vocal and Papa Don Winters inher- ited (and awesome) yodel may be my favorite one Donnie sings. Of course I have always loved his song “Shotgun Rider,” which he delivered once again to a huge round of applause.
Billy
All of us at KUDZOO Magazine had been stoked for weeks about Billy Eli rolling into town on his fall tour, and I’ll just kick this lit- tle review off by saying that the man did not disappoint - not once. Not at all. Eli had arrived on Friday and we all met up over at the home of Silver Travis drummer Mike “G.C.” Satterfield for a rehearsal and some story swapping. We had a large time,
Randall Calvert did an excellent selection of his own songs, including the rocking “I’m Your Rooster” and the funny “Nice Set of Headlights,” from the first Silver Travis record. Randall added some of his signature smoking lead work to many of the songs a well.
Buffalo performed a few of his originals, including the decidedly country “Smell All The Roses,” “Into the Light,” and a tribute to the late George McCorkle, George’s “Fire On The Mountain.”
Billy Eli opened up the Eli songbook, per- forming several of his great songs, including
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