Little Red Rooster At Momo’s

Tonight’s show at Momo’s was, as usual, really great! Great band that played before us – Douglas Jay Boyd, and then we came on rockin’ the house to a lot of new faces.

One familiar face happened to pop his head in the door early in the night. Lucky for us – and the audience – this face happened to belong to none other than Gary Clark, Jr.!

Just last week Mac and I saw him sit in with Jimmie Vaughn at Antone’s and I was – as usual – blown away by him. He’s so laid-back and super talented. I said to myself, “Man! I wish I could have Gary Clark, Jr. sit in with me!”

As we were leaving Antone’s that night we saw him speaking with Joe Constantine and we invited him to come by and see us sometime at Momo’s on a Thursday. Mac even went so far as to extend an open invite for him to jam with us. We left Antone’s and that was that.

But tonight, I was floored when he walked in with some friends and I called for Gary from the stage to come up. Sure enough – he stepped up, Mac gave him his Fender Strat and here’s what happened next…

After the set, we posed for a pic and I mingled in the audience trying to gather more emails for our mailing list.

Gary hung out for most of the second set too, but had to cut out about 3 songs before we called it a night. Too bad, I was going to call him up again for Driving Wheel. Somehow though… I don’t think this will be my last chance to play it with him.

Thanks Gary!

Nakia