The first music I ever heard, or that I remember hearing, was country music. It was in Tom’s Cafe, the bar/cafe across the alley from the house I was born in. I was three yrs old and hung out there a lot, because old Tommy Burke would feed me pancakes. I remember eating pancakes in a wooden booth looking at a red white and blue PBR swag light hearing a man sing about blue eyes and crying rain.
I’ve always meant to see Willie play live but I never got around to it or it was too damn expensive. Well, I looked up tickets again and old Willie is playing just down the street from me in a few weeks. And cinching the deal is that he’s playing with Merle Haggard.