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Pop Gulley and the Rising Stars Bluff City, AR

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Week #3

I took a friend out for his birthday to see Texas Tex, Jim Relja and the regulars at Thunderbird’s Space Exchange this past week. Pete Freeman, pedal steel, called it Outlaw Country, and I have to say there is something about this music that makes sense to me and makes me happy. It’s a fine line though…just a small shift in any direction or derivation from the classics and I lose interest at a soul/gut level. A few songs went there off the Making-Me-Happy wagon, but for the most part it was right in line with what great bar music should be. As one patron told me during the break, “I hear this kind of music and all my troubles melt away.”

There were some volume issues between instruments and some weak links from time to time, but the spirit was strong and apparently the spirits were strong, too, with the lead singer as the night wore on.

A highly enjoyable live music experience. Week 3 is good.