About Brother Ray’s Bar-B-Que Honky Tonk Juke Joint Social Club
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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.”…

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Back from the almost dead.
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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!

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A Few Words About American Storyteller Songs, Part I
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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.

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The Story of The Girl With The Pens (In Her Apron)
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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.

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