18th July 2007 Clutha Vaults Open Mic Sessions

This evening started off with Sandy singing ‘Spanish Boots of Spanish Leather’ an old Dylan ballad

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then he got the first performers of the evening up - Ian and Elaine, who gave an excellent performance of a Blues ballad - ‘Guilty’ followed by one of their own songs ‘Easy’. Elaine has a fabulous voice well suited to singing blues ballads.

Sandy then got Elspeth Durkin up - “I have to follow that?” . Her normal accompaniment usually comes from Bob Leslie however he is off on holiday in Spain at the present.....so Elspeth did her song accapella [or - unaccompanied].

She sang the ballad ‘The last Leviathan’ about the death of the last whales.
Next up was John who gave us ‘What’s a poor boy got to do?’

followed by Annie Fagan with Sandy on guitar singing ‘Ramona’.

Next up to the stage was Ronnie Simpson [champion weightlifter]

who sang the ballad ‘Green fields of France’ with Sandy on guitar.

Sandy followed that himself with ‘Redemption Song’.

Jer McDade was next on stage with his composition ‘Sing Song’.

Chris was next but I didn’t catch the title of his piece.

Sandy then got Ian and Elaine back up for another blues song which was ‘Since I fell for you’,

quickly followed by Joe MacAtamy with ‘Fancy Free’.

Jer McDade did another of his compositions ‘The Unsinkable Boat’

followed by Sandy once again with ‘If I were a Carpenter’.

Michael Fagin then gave us a couple of songs ‘Duncan’ and Neil Young’s ‘Heart of Gold’.

Then Joe MacAtamy was back with his version of ‘The Loch Tay Boat song’.

Next up was Barney and girlfriend Lesley O’Brian with a couple of country songs

‘You win again’ and ‘The Tennessee Border’.

Then Sandy once again got

Ian and Elaine up again who gave us ‘If you want a do-right, all-days woman…’.

Jer McDade was back up again with a cover of the Squeeze song ‘Annie’ followed by Joe MacAtamy again ,

with ‘Courie doon’.

Sandy got Elspeth back up for another accapella song, this time her version of the haunting Irish ballad ‘ I once had a True Love’ .

Ian Adie was next up then , and although Sandy was willing to accompany him, Ian got Michael Fagin up and they did another Neil Young song ‘Southern Man’.

Then Michael carried on with a Beach Boys cover asking the audience to join in with him on ‘God only knows’.

Sandy then got Andy ‘the candy Logan [who had not long arrived in the place] to come up on stage and give us ‘The Games people play’ followed by ‘Good-hearted Woman’.

Sandy then sang another haunting melody ‘I can’t remember if we said goodbye’

Which was very appropriate as the last performer on stage was Jerry McHugh,

who is leaving next week to go and live, with his family, in Spain. Jerry played ‘Russian Lullaby’ followed by ‘The Road to Dundee’ by special request of the audience, with Sandy joining in.
There will be a farewell ‘party’ for Jerry on Sunday the 29th at Scotch Corner for those friends who would like to wish him all the best.