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Society Of Broken Souls “Trouble You No More”, 10/3/21 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

Society of Broken Souls is the Folk Noir songwriting duo of multi-instrumentalists Dennis James and Lauryn Shapter (that’s mostly swiped from their web site). They’re from Fairfield, Iowa.
Shapter specifically asked me not to upload the night to Archive.org, based on her dissatisfaction with parts of the three sets due to the condition of her voice and a couple of missed chords. I argued valiantly that nobody would ever hear the chords (wherever they were) but until I convince her otherwise (evil grin), that’s the way it is.

She DID however acquiesce to my pleading for permission to just post a song or two on my own site, so we’ve selected the opening number, which we’d like to turn into a regular practice around here for the Pomeroy shows. This is a particularly appropriate day to do that since Facebook has been down for hours now.

“Trouble You No More”

“Anna Lee” (Elmore James version), Matt Woods Band, 9/26/21, Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

Matt Woods Band

Matt Woods, guitar, vocals

Erich Gaukel, bass

Dwight Dario, drums

Band was also joined by Jammin’ Jimmy Shieffer, harp and vocals, not included in this track.

Recording information:

Zoom H2n, side mics set at -4, gain set at 4, about “6 paces back” from twin Bose L1’s, to the right, about 8′ high.

Wav -> eMastered: EQ (widened the stereo a notch, raised the lows a notch, lowered the highs a notch and bumped the loudness a notch) -> Mp3 -> Audacity: fades, labels

Shawn Holt & The Teardrops “Shake Your Moneymaker” 9/19/21 Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

Shawn Holt & The Teardrops “Shake Your Moneymaker”, (Elmore James 1961), Set opener, set 2, 9/19/21, Byron’s Bar

David Zollo & The Body Electric “Dead Flowers” 9/10/21, 5:13 Bar, Spencer, IA

“Dead Flowers”, Jagger/Richards (1971)

David Zollo & Body Electric “Excuse Me (I Think I’ve Got A Heartache)”, 9/10/21, 5:13 Bar, Spencer, IA

set opener, set 1, wait for it, takes about 45 seconds for the audience to quiet, intro is usually longer, but edited here for talking

Excuse Me (I Think I’ve Got A Heartache) – Buck Owens (1960)

Body Electric:
David Zollo keyboard, vocals
Brian Cooper drums
Ryan Bernemann bass
Randall Davis guitar

Deeper listen: mixed down to mono to eliminate some out-of-phase audience noise, eMastered to widen stereo width and bring up the lows and mids a notch, returned to two tracks with fades:

“Pickled Peaches”, Ryne Doughty, 9/5/21, Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

Brian Johannesen and Ryne Doughty alternated sets on this night. This is Ryne’s set two opener:

“Pickled Peaches”

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“Customer Of The Month”, Brian Johannesen, 9/5/21, Bryon’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA

Ryne Doughty and Brian Johannesen played Byron’s Bar in Pomeroy, IA on Sunday September 5, 2021. We’ll have the full show up soon at Internet Archive, but in the meantime, here’s a song by Brian, “Customer Of The Month” that spoke to me. According to Johannesen, it was inspired by his college roommate who ate the same plain peanut butter sandwich with Lay’s regular potato chips every day. There were certainly songs of arguably greater importance by both singers throughout the night, but sometimes I need the mundane stuff.

Intro

“Customer Of The Month”

Billy Don Burns Set 3 6/20/21 with some assistance

I take notes when I’m recording stuff, mainly for the purpose of labeling the tracks on the recording, and I sometimes get the feeling that it looks a little nerdy to be doing that. Jon Dee Graham expressed amazement over that one time.

That said, one night when Billy Don Burns was playing at Byron’s, by the third set he was pretty much on auto-pilot due to liberal imbibing, and I had realized that he probably couldn’t remember which songs he’d done and which songs he hadn’t done, particularly the latter. So I used my phone, accessed my own archives with their nice notes and made a list for him.

That turned out to be reinforcement for my even being there, since I had chosen between my girlfriend’s performance in another town (she plays a cajón in a duo) and BDB, and I wasn’t sure I’d figured that out right, but it turned out I had a reason to be there (to write this).

He seemed to appreciate that and started out with Keith Whitley Blue, which I had suggested, it being one of my favorite songs of his:

Keith Whitley Blue, It Would Kill Mama, I Don’t Have A Reason To Go To California Anymore, Outskirts of Desperate

That’s what nerdy stuff is all about, man. Every once in a while, somebody needs the information.

Great Moments At Byron’s, Pomeroy, “It’s My Own Fault”, Dust Devil Choir, 7/21/19

This is one of our earliest recordings from Byron’s, and unfortunately, yours truly had failed to anticipate what might happen if some guitar player overpowered our little recorder and brought the house to its feet.

The Amazing Guitar solo at the end is by Jake Koivisto, originally from Galva, Iowa.

It’s My Own Fault

Preview: “Creatures Of Habit”, Kevin Boehnke Trio, Byron’s Bar, Pomeroy, IA 8/22/21

this is necessarily an mp3; please stand by for the full show as .wav files in the near future.

These guys have, um, really fleshed out this number.

Boehnk Trio — Kevin Boehnke, Chris Jensen, Michael Gedden

Tony Hogrefe Invents Farm Rock

We stole this photo from Sheila Thomsen at Innspiration Vines And Wines

Tony Hogrefe, Wall Lake, Iowa, it would appear, has invented a new music genre: Farm Rock. Not that he isn’t good at the country standards that he covers but he has at least ten originals, all of which are about farming (or not-many are quite philosophical). Yes, he has one about a century old house that he claims is not about farming, but we all know where that house is.

Inspired by a gig with his grandfather at Albert City decades ago, he took the stage at the Threshermen And Collectors Show there for the (third?) time this summer (2021) and brought an entourage of family and friends, including the duo of Tim And Cinda.

Here are two numbers from that show. We like the ambient outdoor sounds of the Threshermen event and yours truly thought the barn swallows that you hear in the background added some Threshermen-y-ness to the occasion:

Grain Cart Operator

Rippin’

Five days later, it was on to Linn Grove, to Innspiration Vines And Wines, where he did a similar set indoors to an appreciative room. That was just hours ago and we have the entire night to process yet, but here’s one from indoors:

Iowa Sky

Tim And Cinda are slated for Innspiration Vines And Wines August 29, and a little bird tells us that Tony will probably re-appear with them at that time. But you didn’t hear it here, we’re just the archivist. Smile.

The Albert City show is online now at our archive, at https://archive.org/details/2021-08-15-28

The photo at that page is used without permission and we hope to rectify that soon.

“Stop Breaking Down”, Reeferseed Express, Byron’s Bar, 7/10/21 Pomeroy Sesquicentennial +1

It didn’t stay like this, but that was because the bass player was overcome by something after the first set; the band was tight when they opened with one of Yours Truly’s favorite Stones songs (from Exile On Main Street):

Stop Breaking Down

Originally scheduled as a street dance in conjunction with Pomeroy’s Sesquicentennial +1 and moved indoors due to weather uncertainty, the night featured an interesting mix of returning Pomeroy-ites for the city’s celebration and Byron’s regulars.

Jamie Grimm and John Price arrived with a rhythm section but the bass player had difficulties which forced her to sit out after “Beautiful” and for the rest of the show the band rotated in a couple of “ringers” (smile) and various members took over bass duties.

Originally, Todd Partridge was the sound guy: