Just BS Cd Release

Bonavista on a Saturday night, there's shed parties, small house parties where you can go and listen to the latest mtv disaster. Not my cup of screech and coke should I say. Theres really nothing like listening to live music and having a few drinks and laughs with a crowd of people dancing a jig right next to ya. Thanks to Steve Abbott, Bob Little and Walkhams Gate Pub we all have a great place to enjoy great Newfoundland talent and music. Many nights I've been on the other side of the bar throwing beer from corner to corner as Steve and Bob belted out the tunes that we love and have grown on us. Every now and then me and Sharon could take a break and lean up against the bar and listen to Either Steve or Bob do what they have done for Bonavista for years, sing everything from traditional Newfoundland music to Steve Earle to Stan Rogers. After all the years of playing the pub Steve and Bob finally released an album of theirs and your favorite songs. Starting with one of my favorite Dubliner songs called Dirty Old Town that was most famously covered by the punk/irish group The Pogues. Ending with their most requested songs Venice Is Sinking. In between is a array of hand  picked by Steve and Bob favorites from Bob Dylans Wagon Wheel to Stan Rogers Fogartys Cove. They also throw in there Walkhams Gate Pub's owner Harv Templemen favorite St Olav's Gate, a Tom Russel staple. The cd has beautiful production all done by Bob Little in his basement. The sound sounds professionally done in one of Canada's best studio. You can drive around town listening to Just BS with your windows down or just sit back and listen to them at home. You can find the album at Walkhams Gate Pub at anytime and this weekend the 18th of June you can come to the official CD release party at Walkhams Gate Pub and listen to Just BS in person. They will be selling cds there while supplies last so come on down and have a jig or two and sing along to Steve and Bob.

George Loves His Whiskey

Drinking songs with old time Country go hand in hand, like two peas in a pod, old time Country Musicians wrote drinking songs just as much as Irish Musicians. Some even lived the life of a drunken songster. Breaking the law after a drug infused night of playing at a rowdy honky tonk was an every night occurrence for some. Others escaped johnny law by the skin of their fingers. George Jones are one of those drunken Country musicians that not only sing the life of a drunkard but also lived many years with the bottle in his hand. At one point in his life he was picked up for drinking and driving, not that drinking and driving is such a far fetched arrest but on a lawnmower it was. He was on his way to the liquor store an apparently driving at 2mph was much quicker. But for years he battled the bottle, many times losing and sinking back into the depths of the sea of whiskey. This song Tennessee Whiskey has got to be on the top of my list of favorite George Jones songs, comparing women to alcohol was probably the only way George could compare women, two of his favorite things wraped up into one song. A true musician friend of mine does a beautiful cover of this song, Steve Abbott can do justice to this song, next time you see him play at Walkhams Gate Pub playing his heart out on stage request this song, step back and be amazed. Steve's band with Bob Little Just BS are soon releasing their first album so keep an eye out and pick it up. I listened to the master copy yesterday and was blown away with the quality of production done by Bob himself. Well done bys'.

Just BS Was Just That Damn Good

New Years Eve I had a great time working behind the bar at Walkhams Pub in downtown Bonavista. It was my first time working as a bartender but I absolutely loved it, running back and forth and grabbing drinks here and there for people was something that just came natural to me. Working there was a blast but what made it even more fun was having the joy of listening to Just BS. Steve Abbot and Bob Little covered tunes from Tom Petty to Stan Rogers. They really had the pub jumping and jigging with their traditional Newfoundland songs. Just the two of them played instruments ranging from acoustic guitars to fiddles to banjos and harmonicas. They are the perfect pub band that pairs well with a glass of beer. They are the perfect pub band who I can see playing in the best pubs in St John's any day. I enjoyed my time at Walkhams Pub that night and Just BS was traditional music to the ears