I'm very excited to be involved in having Ellis at the Houston Arboretum & Nature Center this Sunday. It's an outdoor show, and it should be beautiful weather. EP's also doing a house concert in Houston on Sat. evening - lucky me - the guy lives two blocks away from my apartment . So if you don't live in Texas, reserve your plane flight now! We need you (it's a fundraiser). I'll have set lists and other goodies later.
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2 shows in Houston - Mar. 19-20, 2011
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Bill,
Hope you raise lots of funds, have lots of fun, and collect lots of goodies to share!
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Hope you raise lots of funds, have lots of fun, and collect lots of goodies to share!
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Re: 2 Ellis shows in Houston -Mar. 19-20, 2011
Bill - have a wonderful Ellis filled weekend - hope you're able to take some pics and post here. What a beautiful setting for a concert.
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Re: 2 Ellis shows in Houston -Mar. 19-20, 2011
Bill just called with a last-minute update that Ellis will be live on KPFT 30 minutes from now! 1pm CST or 2pm EST!
Listen here:
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Listen here:
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Re: 2 Ellis shows in Houston -Mar. 19-20, 2011
The on-air host said Ellis has been delayed....they are shooting for a 2:30pm CST time now....
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Re: 2 Ellis shows in Houston -Mar. 19-20, 2011
He made it! Now listening to "Rose Tattoo"....
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Now doing Mark Erelli's "The Only Way". Such a great song.....
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Re: 2 Ellis shows in Houston -Mar. 19-20, 2011
I was out in the yard all day and saw this too late. It stands to reason the "mighty 90" KPFT 90.1 fm in Houston would have Ellis on.
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Re: 2 Ellis shows in Houston -Mar. 19-20, 2011
Great shows this weekend. New song (not quite finished) - "Kick Out the Lights" about Johnny Cash at the G.O. Opry. Saturday's house concert had a rowdy 150 people and we all got to watch the moon rise across from the stage. Sunday's show was more subdued, but the setting was perfect. Thanks, Ellis!
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According to BillE - who supplied the picture linked below - the song has to do with an instance when Johnny Cash - during his drinking and carousing days - played the Opry and kicked out the lights on the stage....
Lyrics to "Kick Out the Lights"
Found this Johnny Cash quote about the incident:
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Lyrics to "Kick Out the Lights"
Found this Johnny Cash quote about the incident:
"The band kicked off a song, and I tried to take the microphone off the stand. In my nervous frenzy, I couldn't get it off. That was enough to make me explode in a fit of anger. I took the mike stand, threw it down, then dragged it along the edge of the stage. There were 52 lights, and I wanted to break all 52, which I did." -- Johnny Cash, on the night he was asked not to return to the Grand Ole Opry, 1993
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Re: 2 shows in Houston - Mar. 19-20, 2011
Beautiful setting for a show
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