Dead Cat on the Line

Last night, as we were preparing the tunes we’ll share this weekend in our duties as the house band for the monthly Route 60 Saturday Night show, we got to thinking about other Saturday nights we’ve known. You know, we love to tell how Grandma had a lot of Sunday morning songs that she’d learned in church, but that Grandpa had some Saturday night songs that he’d learned some place else, like maybe in that juke joint down on the river … oh, you know the kind of loud, smoky room where a couple of good ol’ boys are strumming guitars or maybe a big ol’ friendly girl is pounding a barrelhouse piano. Here’s a tune from that Saturday night tradition, one we learned from the 1930s recordings of the original Hokum Boys. Remember, it’s Route 60 Saturday Night, THIS Saturday Night at Route 60 Music Co., 60 Peyton Street in Barboursville. Our guest artists are singer/songwriters Joe Lambiotte and Ally Fletcher. Admission is $5, and this month all proceeds go to Golden Girls Group Home of Ceredo, WV. Come on for a good time for a good cause!