There was Big Mike from the Trunk Band, Danny Shirley of Confederate Railroad, Gin- ger Ambrose, so many friends. After lunch it was time to head to the Semi-
nole Hard Rock Lobby Bar where I have done my solo gig countless times in the past. But today was different, I had just heard from Greg Holt, a world class fiddle player whom I had first met at Gritzfest II in Huntsville, Alabama when he was playing in duet with Guy Gilchrist. Greg was now living in Tampa, and when I asked him if he’d sit in with me, he kindly obliged. Matter of fact, he joined me for all three of my shows, giv- ing the music a whole new feel. I was thrilled. Not only did my origi- nal songs like “Into The Light” and “Painting Her Toenails” take on a whole new vibe, Greg raised the stakes and I switched the set list around to feature that hot fiddle, doing Billy Joe Shaver’s “Georgia On a Fast Train,” and “Can’t You See” with an extended double time jam at the end, which we dubbed “Can’t You See Bird.” Thursday’s set was a blast. I dedi- cated my set to the memory of “absent friends.” Gosh, so many of our Angelus brethren have passed on - Gar Williams, Stu- art Swanlund, Tommy Crain, Taz DiGregorio, Kerry Creasy, and Rene Gray among them. Right after we played it was time to head to
the Hard Rock Cafe for the Golf Tournament “Blind Draw” Pairing Party. There was music galore, including a set from The Embry Brothers Band. The brothers have played at
many of the Angelus events, if not all, that I have attended, in a band called Wiley Fox. The Embry Brothers were red hot. I enjoyed every minute of their show. They rocked “The Boys Are Back in Town,” “Midnight Rider,” “Home to Carolina” (with some amazing har- mony vocals), Zac Brown’s “Free,” (again, harmony to die for) and Van Morrison’s “Into The Mystic.” They played a great version of Queen’s “Fat Bottom Girls,” and delivered a slow groove rendition of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean,” and rocked the classic “The Letter.” Perhaps the performance that de- fined the band was their set closer, a dead on cover of Molly Hatchet’s “Flirtin’ with Disaster.” The Embry Brothers rock. Next up was another Angelus regular, Jodell,
rocking the joint with covers of songs by Tom Petty, Pat Benatar, and a nice rocking cover of The Outlaws version of “Ghost Riders in the Sky.” All around us were celebrities, like wrestling
legend Jimmy “Mouth of the South” Hart, some of the guys from TV’s Deadliest Catch, and countless “rock and roll all nighters and party every-dayers.” Every one of them turned to face the stage as the man of the hour was introduced. Charlie Daniels took the stage, backed by the N-Kahootz band. Now, these guys are also a staple of the Angelus event, and have done a great job backing Charlie since the passing of Tommy Crain, who held that lofty gig with his band The Crosstown Allstars for several years.
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