Honky Tonk Highway

. . . sounds like somewhere one should be on Friday night.

If that's not your bottle of Jack Daniels then there's always Rob Luckey and the Lucky Bastards over at the Balmain Bowling Club from about 8pm. And if too much of the Bastards isn't enough, they're on at the double open house birthday party at the Marrickville Bowling Cub on Saturday night (see map below the blurb):

Lois and Acey's Open House Double Birthday Party.

Marrickville Bowling Club, Saturday July 2 - 8pm

Rob Luckey & the Lucky Bastards
Johnny G & the E-Types
+ Dom Turner + Glenys Rae + Special guests

$5 Door.





Sale Time at Yesterday & Today Records

If you've never been out to one of Steve Reid's country CD music sales, it's worth the bus fare to experience it just once. As usual, the early birds get the fresh worms so the Saturday morning early start is recommended if you're a serious bargain hunter. Er . . . take your bank card - it can get quite dizzy!! Over to you, Steve . . .



We are pleased to advise our next big sale will begin Saturday 23rd July. As usual with our big sales we will also be open Sunday (24th July). Saturdays tend to be a bit frantic so if you like things a little more leisurely Sunday is the go.

For those not familiar with our sales let me say again you miss them only if you dare. We get everything in for the sales; we don’t just mark things down we can’t sell or do a Sanity Music and get in a bunch of crap label stuff which wouldn’t be a bargain even if we literally gave it away. This is a novel sale...a GENUINE sale!!

What we have is choice quality stuff and there is always something for everybody. Virtually all the Billboard charting cds will be on sale at $18, with just a few select titles at $20. For $18 you will get the new Buddy Jewell cd “Times Like These”, Miranda Lambert’s “Kerosene”, The Wrights’ “Down the Road” (in line for album of the year), Keith Anderson’s “Three Chord Country” and for $20 JoDee Messina’s “Delicious Surprise”, Dwight’s “Blame the Vain”etc. These are just a few random examples.

All the latest Americana and bluegrass releases will we available and not surprisingly most will never ever be released locally. We will have the entire Ronny Elliott range on sale. For those who like something a little different Ronny has no peer and you certainly won’t find him elsewhere. There will be lot of blues and specialist label reissues.

Our popular $10 or 3 for $25 section will have more in it than ever before. There will be some deletions you will not see ever again as well as some of the very latest releases. The range in this section will astound you. We will have cds from a mere $2 and a range of bluegrass cds from $5 including some Rebel and Pinecastle product. We will have cd box sets, dvds and some excellent books.

For the early birds we will have some cd advances and collectables. As many of you know some of these titles never even get released....can there be anything more collectable than something that is never released?? There will be many highly sought cds in very limited quantities. We don’t even know when we will get another copy of some of these... maybe never.

We should also mention there is a great vibe at one of these sales. Everyone seems to get on well and just get into it.

The success of our sales depends on the people who participate and we really need a great turnout to enable them to continue. Please, tell your friends; bring your friends. Everyone will be have a good time. That is assured. There is just nothing even remotely like it, anywhere.

Yesterday & Today Records
255A Church St
Parramatta NSW 2150
phone/fax: (02) 96333585
email: steve@yesterdayandtoday.com.au
Web site: www.yesterdayandtoday.com.au

Starts Saturday 23rd July (hours 7am-4pm)
continues Sunday 24th July (hours 9am-2pm)

. . . has been mentioned here before, relating to a particular DVD and CD of the arts and history of the area. Here's a link to what looks like an even better overview of the entirety of the Appalachian culture. Could be something to explore (check out the music files!) over a cold and wet weekend. No time, yet, to check it out in its entirety so am suggesting this blind. What I have seen so far looks superb - go get it!

Note: Even though The Tonker's interest is mainly cultural, the above image of a still in the mountains was just too hard to pass - all it needs is Robert Mitchum to wander into the scene and away we go!

That's not cigarette smoke! - that's just heat rising from the Hunter & Suzy Owens Band who'll be in full swing at the beloved Balmain Bowling Club tomorrow night (Friday 24th) from 8 pm onwards. The wicked line-up of Hunter & Suzy, Jake Lardot, Tomi Graso and Doug Bligh will have you dancin' your socks off so get on down for a great Friday night starter to this big weekend of music.

. . . after a weekend when TOO much music ain't enough - as H. G. Nelson might say - you could always pop around to the Botany View Hotel at about 6.30 pm on Sunday (26th) and have the above bunch of handsome gentlemen entertain you for hours on end with outrageous (but good!) covers of everything from Hank Williams to Merle Haggard and back again. It's been a while since Dollar Bill and the boys have been allowed out on a Sunday so make it a date to catch 'em this weekend. Of course you'll all recognise them as The Prickles simply because of the name on the kick drum!

As many may well be aware by now, there is to be a benefit night to lend some support to well-known Sydney country music personality, Trucker Bob, following the tragic death of his teenage daughter in a road accident in Victoria early this month.

The benefit will be held at the Cooks River Motor Boat Club, Holbeach Avenue, Tempe, on this coming Saturday (June 25) commencing at 5pm. $20 includes dinner, with all proceeds to Bob & family. For those unfamiliar with the Motor Boat Club, it's just around the corner from The Harp Hotel on Princes Highway, Tempe - just before you get to the Cooks River Bridge (if you're heading south-west - see map below). The night will include raffles and other fund-raising efforts with the main draw being the many Inner West bands performing:

Rob Luckey & The Lucky Bastards
Deadwood 76
Hogstomp
Kitty & The Alley Cats
Fat Dusty
Mary Heard
The Cartwrights
& and more!!!!

Drinks at club prices!

Contact Dave for more info: 0401 136 550 or the Club : 9558 5522






The Murray Hillbillies . . .



. . . are back at the Bald Faced Stag Hotel on the corner of Parramatta and Balmain Roads, Leichhardt, on the same night (Saturday June 25) commencing at 9pm. With a bit of good management, punters could make this a long night of great Inner West country music. The Hillbillies will be playing until at least 1 am.

Courtesy of the indefatigable Bastard bassist, Smithy, here are the gigs for Rob Luckey and the Lucky Bastards for June:

Wed 1st - Botany View Hotel, Newtown 7:00 pm
Fri 3rd - Balmain Bowling Club 8:00 pm
Sat 4th - Gladstone Hotel, Dulwich Hill 9:00 pm
Sun 5th - Botany View Hotel, Newtown 6:30 pm
Fri 17th - Balmain Bowling Club 8:00 pm
Sat 18th - Bald Faced Stag Hotel, Leichhardt 9:00 pm
Sun 19th - Riverview Hotel, Balmain 5:30 pm
Thu 23rd - Elephant and Wheelbarrow Paddington 8:00 pm

They are all on the website too (including any late changes):
here.

For a more extensive weekend gig listing, pop over to the Mule.

Enjoy.