guitar, folks! It’s obvious he has studied the Duane Allman songbook back to front. (Get it? Japanese magazines are read from back to front.) Kishida rocked it.
ever with Donna Hall and Eddie Stone singing backup. The all-star group played “In The Middle of
the Night,” and turned lead vocals over to N.C. Thurman on “Gotta Get My Arms Around You.” Great. Tommy Talton brought it home with “Houston, ” segueing into a stel- lar take on ”Little Martha.” It just doesn’t get any better than that. The show was closed out by a little pick-up
Michael Buffalo Smith, Bonnie Bramlett and Scott Boyer. (Photo by Peggy Peck; Maconga City Limits)
This was my first experience hearing The
Rev. Jimmie Bratcher play, and he made a fan for sure. Jimmie rocked through “Honkytonk Blues,” a very interesting rendition of “You Are My Sunshine” and a very cool song called “Don’t Sell Me No Green Tomatoes.” I swear this is true. I started writing a song the day before the show called “Government Cheese,” and Jimmie had an excellent song with the same title. Needless to say I deferred to him. Jimmie also turned in his own excellent ver- sion of the Little Milton classic (and Wet Willie staple), “Grits Ain’t Groceries.” So good. Next came the moment I had truly been
looking forward to, a semi-Cowboy reunion. Scott Boyer, Tommy Talton and Bill Stewart were joined by N.C. Thurman (The Decoys) for a nostalgic set that included Boyer’s “Don’t Hit Me No More,” along with Cowboy classics like “River to the Sea,” “All My Friends,” Living in the Country” (during which I somehow found myself dancing with Donna Hall Foster, in a surrealistic moment) and Tommy’s always fun “Everything Here (Is Getting’ Kinda’ Crazy).” Of course Scott sang “Please Be with Me,” and sounded as good as
band calling themselves The Middle Georgia Allstars. The ensemble included the guys from Stillwater, Mike Causey and Bobby Golden, Eddie Stone, Donna Hall, Bruce Hornsby, and Daniel Ford. The band per- formed a red hot version of the Grinderwitch favorite “Kiss the Blues Goodbye,” and Donna Hall Foster rocked out the Delbert McClinton tune “Every Time I Roll the Dice.” It was a se- rious jam to wrap up an awesome evening. Great friends, great music and a great cause, giving a little help to our friend and brother Larry Howard. •
Cowboy: Tommy Talton and Scott Boyer. (Photo by Peggy Peck; Maconga City Limits)
Be sure to check out our special Larry Howard Benefit Photo Retrospective in this issue!
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