Honeysuckle Rose.... Corrected....

Boy, we sure are blessed with a mighty tolerant, forgiving band. When we have a big show coming up — like we did last weekend with the launch of the new season of “Route 60 Saturday Night” — The Flood has rehearsals and nails down the arrangements of all the tunes, deciding things like, okay, Doug and Paul will do a duet in this section, then Sam will come in for a solo on the bridge and then we’ll throw it back to Michelle for the vocals. But then sometimes when we get to the actual show, Charlie forgets everything we worked out. That’s what happened Saturday night with our carefully arranged plans for “Honeysuckle Rose.” Fortunately, as usual, our bandmates just grinned and winked at each other, as if to say, “Well, Old Charlie has wandered off on his own again.” Later our sweet-tempered bass player Randy Hamilton told him, “Hey, it’s not the mistakes you make; it’s how well you recover.” And we did seem to do okay on that score. Most people outside the band didn’t seem to notice the big screwup. Even Pamela, our manager, who hears our tunes more than anyone, thought, “Huh! Sounds like they’ve worked out a different version this time.” Uh, right! Anyway, as a musical footnote, here (from a rehearsal last week) is how “Honeysuckle Rose” was supposed to go Saturday night.