Wednesday 14th March 2007

The bar was very quiet this evening, possibly because there was a fire further round the access road, and the normal 'parking area' was closed off by the police for quite a while however it did fill up later on when the police and fire brigade had moved away!
Sandy is off on holiday in Texas - yeeha! so this evening was hosted by Brian McLachlan,

lead guitarist for the Vagabonds.

He started off the evening with one of his own compositions - 'To be Someone' followed by a Marc Ford number 'Change your mind'
and then 'Take another look'. First up to perform was Willie 'jukebox' Mathews who decided to give us his version of 'The girl from Ipanema'.

Davie was next up with 'Stormy Monday' followed by Michael with 'Half the world away'.
Bob Leslie then gave us one of his new songs 'Fading into the night'.
Next we had a little combo of Richie, Fraser and Marek who gave us 'Outside Woman Blues' and then 'Red House'.
Jer McDade was up next with 'Singsong', another of his remarkable story ballads.
After Jer came Gavin Watt with 'Old laughing lady' and he was followed by Andy Lindsay who gave us the Bob Dylan song 'Masters of War'.

Joe MacAtamy then gave us a classic scots ballad 'Haul Away'.

Vivian, accompanied by Gavin, gave us 'Songbird'

and then Davie got back up to give us his version of 'Hey Joe'.
Elspeth Durkin , accompanied by Bob Leslie
then gave us two songs [ as Brian said - she was at the cusp of the evening i.e. halfway through!]' Your Cheatin' Heart' followed by 'Autumn Leaves'.
Bob then stayed up to accompany Michael on his second song.'Aint no sunshine'

He was followed by the
combo ofWillie, Fraser and Andy with 'Blow wind blow'.

Jer then gave us 'The New James Bond' followed by Joe Mac with 'Fancy free'.

Eddie then got a chance to play and gave us a blues noodle followed by Andy Lindsay who gave us 'Summertime Blues' which everybody joined in with the chorus line!

Gavin gave the penultimate song 'My baby she wrote me a letter'.
Brian decided that Bob Leslie should end the night with one of Brian's favourites of Bob's compositions, 'Different Worlds'. [Elspeth joined Bob with harmonies for the song].
There was then the usual jam session before the final closing shout!



[I am sorry there is no review of the 7th March, as I was unable to attend that evening.]