Tonight the Birthright Blues Project played at the Java Joint in Cooper, Texas. We had a really good time gathering with our core following before we head out next week to Helena, AR to play at the King Biscuit Blues Festival. Although tonight we took more breaks than usual to visit with the crowd, we still played the songs from the set we'll be doing on the Rising Biscuit Stage next Friday, as well as an assortment of our other tunes, one of Jack's newest, and a few covers. What would a blues concert be without Muddy Waters, Howlin Wolf, Albert King, and Robert Johnson? Our ten year old son got up and sang Me and the Devil by Robert Johnson, he really gets into RJ's blues....he's surely a future blues man. And of course, we had to jam on some Hank III and Hendrix!
Word is steadily getting out about what we're doing, there were a lot of new faces in the crowd (and we all know they had to come from out of town, we know everyone in Cooper, I think). One of them even had fresh ink by my favorite tattoo artist, Josh Painter at Texas Tattoos and Art Gallery in Greenville.
Cooper really has a happening scene, when you consider it's north east Texas nowhere. That little Texas town is one of my favorite ones to visit, it has such a cute, old style brick square, but make sure you keep an eye out for those Delta Co. Deputies! We also noticed a few faces in the crowd who we haven't seen in a while, which is always nice.....we had a great time in Cooper tonight and are ready and raring to go for next week. Although it might be a little hard on the drummer to head out so early Tuesday morning, but he'll make it and then we'll all be glad we did once we're on Delta Time.
Delta time, where everyone and everything slows down to a relaxed, easygoing pace. I can't wait.
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