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« on: March 26, 2006, 01:47:14 AM »
Jon Durham was here this week from South Carolina and it took me seeing 3 shows to get around to hearing most of the songs on his two cd's.
The Whitewater Tavern show was a mildly messed up event(surprise)- when we walked in there was a girl (CourtneyFairchild)already at the bar, wanting to talk to a manager or owner. She'd been told that she was playing and would get the door for the night. I told Mary Ann that Jon Durham was here to play and she says"thats not whose supposed to be here tonight", I said "sure he is, that's his poster there on the front door saying Thur. night". So Courtney and Jon get down to meeting each other and seeing what they can do and they Immediatly work it out. And when they turned to start putting Courtneys stuff on stage, here comes somes guys and gals carrying drums, saxophone, two acoustic guitars, bongo's, bass guitar and amp......So who are you guys,e veryone else asks? WE're the Rena Renn(I think) Band. Folks they were a 5 piece band. Now wheres the guy doing the booking,...So, then some guy named TJ comes in and apoligizes for the screw up, but of course it's not his fault ....He says goose hired him to start doing the booking, and I gues the first lesson he learned then was, well, lets see the calendar and what dates you've already got booked....It was on the bar, he's never looked at it, cuz it wasn't his...he also admitted that he new that there might be a possibility that he knew he was overbooking the night, but he figured it was n't his problem.....Courtney drove from Dallas for the Door, Jon from South Carolina, and the Rena