
About Brother Ray’s Bar-B-Que Honky Tonk Juke Joint Social Club
…”I sat and listened to the riff and groove on loop for hours watching that fire burn. I imagined all of my friends made through the years all meeting up at this place to just hang out and have a good time. I could hear the laughter, see the smiles, feel the warmness of so many like minded folks just being themselves. With this I laughed with delight at the image of what the parking lot would look like when all of these folks showed up at the same time.”…

Back from the almost dead.
A barrage of uptempo instrumentals, a beautiful ballad, an old favorite will keep you dancing the night away before closing the evening with a traditional Cuban song performed softly as the lights are romantically dimmed for you hold your special someone close and feel the rest of existence melt away. What a night it will be!

A Few Words About American Storyteller Songs, Part I
Many of those stories and many of those experiences stay with me daily. I still laugh today at little inside jokes and funny circumstances that happened in those moments and acted as punchlines to those tales. I still cry at the sadness that I have come to know from the stories fading into the wind as each storyteller found the end of their story here on earth.
The Journey Begins: Don’t Open That Door Anne Murray!
I was afraid for Anne Murray. I always waited with bated breath to see if Anne Murray would be stupid enough to open that door. Don’t open the door Anne Murray!!

The Story of The Girl With The Pens (In Her Apron)
Being onstage is just like being inside a television. People don’t think of you as being a real, breathing entity. You are just there for their entertainment, as a distraction from silence, or as something for them to complain about.

Good Morning. It was a good morning.
“…those days are gone forever. I should just let ‘em go, but…”
I mean, you don’t, like, even have a style
What does INXS, Hank Williams, Metallica, Anita Baker have to do with it?


Smells like Granny’s house.
Happy memories that catch you by suprise are the sweetest memories.
