and I found myself wanting to listen to him all day long. Just great material, from “Cincinnati Shuffle” to ‘Sonny’s Blues,” to “Bad Woman Blues,” a song most of the men at the show could most likely identify with. EG Kight ain’t called “the Georgia Song-
Randall Calvert and Mike Satterfield of Silver Travis.
back in the ‘70s; along with Cincinnati, Ohio blues guitarist, writer and vocalist Sonny Moorman; and “the Georgia Songbird,” E.G. Kight, whose powerful vocals, amazing flat picking and excellent songs won the crowd over from the first song. The set began with Russell Gulley, putting
his own flavor on the Travis Wammack/Ju- nior Lowe song “Greenwood Mississippi.” Russell’s gruff, powerful blues vocals set the stage for what was to be an hour of incredible acoustic blues. Over the course of the set, Gulley performed his outstanding original compositions, “Your Baby’s Gone Again,” the mighty “No Holds Barred,” and perhaps my favorite, “The Gospel According to the Blues.” Russell is one fine performer, as evident by the applause coming from the appreciative audience. I remember Sonny Moorman from the days
when I wrote the occasional review for Michael Buffalo’s Gritz Magazine. I always thought he had mad skills on guitar and vo- cals as well, and today I got a chance to wit- ness it all in person. Sonny was tapping some sort of device with his foot that sounded like a bass drum and tambourine in unison. Very cool. Speaking of cool, I watched the man from right in front of the stage, and even in near 100 degree heat, I don’t believe I ever saw him sweat. Sonny started out with the very excellent
blues of ‘Souled Out,” and had the audience from the outset. Each song was a true winner,
bird” for nothin.’ The lady can flat sing! Not to mention rip it up on acoustic guitar. Dur- ing her songs there were more than a few cat calls, yelps, screams and rounds of sponta- neous applause. Starting out with the sexy blues tune she wrote about a man calling her pet names and how none of them made her feel more special than when he called her “Sugar,” (pronounced with her Southern drawl, “shuga”) E.G. played that guitar like a ringin’ a bell and sang her heart out. We were all fortunate to hear a brand new composition she performed out for the first time, a tune called “That’s How a Woman Loves,” and she followed it with the equally great “Talk to Me.” Her final song, also the final song of the set, was “It Takes A Mighty Good Man (to Be Better Than No Man at All.” A true classic as far as wordplay, and a song that always gets the crowd goin’ like a Friday night in a lower Alabama Juke Joint at 2 am! After a short break to set the stage, it was
time to plug in. The Silver Travis Band, a group from Spartanburg, SC that Buffalo said he has worked with since the early 1980’s, took the stage and launched into a song from their upcoming third album, a tune written by former band member, the late Steve Harvey
John Charles Griffin, Buffalo, Billy Eli, Scott Greene and Paul Hornsby.
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