Sara Buxton at Douglas Corner
Americana Music News — We saw the diversity of Tin Pan South tonight at two 6 p.m. shows in distinctly different venues.
J.D. Souther hosted an evening at Douglas Corner, where the room was dark and the audience was hushed and almost reverential. The club was packed and the sign outside said the room was at capacity (which happened with some disappointing regularity this week.)
Across town, the irreverent foursome of Don Henry, Karen Staley, Jerry Vandiver and Jack Sundrud held court at the much brighter Commodore Grille at the West End Holiday Inn. Henry sang about a guitar tossed into a tree after a spat, Staley described her “Thyroid Condition” with a nod to Hank Williams Jr. and Vandiver delivered the pun-plentiful “Athens Grease.”
It was all good.
Don Henry. Karen Staley and Jack Sundrud
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