Please join us for our FB LIVE performance on Wednesday, May 15th at 8:30 p.m. CST on ourMiddleman BurrFacebook Page! We’ll be playing original songs of ours that you requested throughout the week. You can email your requests to: middlemanburr@gmail.com.
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Kenny Chesney’s new cd “Born” will be released on Friday, Mar. 22nd! This cd ends with the touching song “Wherever You Are Tonight” that Gary wrote with Mike Reid. Be sure to check it out!
Georgia and I just came back from a trip to New Orleans to celebrate my birthday. We had a wonderful time and I felt like we owed you all a play by play of our three whirlwind days in the Big Easy. They call it that because life is easy down there in that sweaty, sultry wonderland. I guess. No one really was able to explain it to us. We didn’t care, actually.
We like our cities the way Georgia likes her men. Easy.
“Why New Orleans?” I might hear you all asking, if I had some sort of super hearing… like Aquaman.
Well, lets see what the possibilities are.
The architecture?
Yeah right. We went for the architecture.
Nope. Don’t care about architecture. “Ooh look! That house has a porch. That house has three windows in front and….wait for it….that house over there has FOUR!!!”
We probably don’t know enough about it to be aficionados….but we’re pretty sure when it comes to roofs, floors and porches…all buildings are pretty universal.
I think I just pissed off Georgia’s uncle Barry, the architect. There goes Thanksgiving.
Was it the music? Excellent guess. We ARE, in many ways, musicians, so you would think we went there for the crazy sounds of Bourbon Street.
Nope. We are from Nashville. Walking down a crowded street listening to bands in bar windows playing 38 Special is nothing new to us. Now, we did stop and listen to some bands playing in the streets that had tubas in them. That’s kind of cool. There are no tubas in 38 Special so we had to stop and listen.
Let’s cut to the chase. It was for the food.
Georgia and I decided we were going to sample the cuisine sensibly and with an eye on our diet and our health at all times. There is a way to enjoy the local food and not go overboard and come home with extra pounds and a stomach full of regret. So that’s what we tried to do.
Wait…I just reread that last paragraph and I would like to correct a few typing errors.
We ate everything. We ate ALL of everything. If we could chase it and take it down…we ate it. We ate an entire mounted policeman. Cop. Horse. Taser. We picked our teeth with his baton. We ate all the oysters that were in the city limits and then we ordered in three dozen from Mississippi.
Beignets. Do you know what beignets are? They’re friggin’ DONUTS, Dude!!! They come four to a plate but they don’t have any limits on how many plates you can stack at your table at one sitting. To the ceiling. Twelve beignets and a diet coke and you are buzzing for six hours. We timed it. Georgia ended up so hopped up on sugar that she chased a tuba player down Royal street and made him cry.
We lied to every restaurant and told them it was my actual birthday just so they would keep bringing us free stuff. Eating stuff!! A pile of cotton candy the size of Andre the Giant’s head. With a candle stuck to it. A lit candle!! One waiter trips and it’s all over! And….hold on. I buried the lead.
Under the cotton candy was a piece of cake. Now if the architecture had a cotton candy roof and, inside the house, there was cake? Ich bin ein Architect.
Sure, we had to get those seat belt extenders for the flight home. Sure, I’ve got this weird tingling in my extremities now. Sure, we spent six hundred dollars on a new cotton candy machine.
Gary and Georgia had a ball with Jim Vallance and Catherine Porter. We swapped off songs and got to go back in time, listening to such classics as Bryan Adams’ “Heaven” and “Summer Of ’69” and Heart’s “What About Love” among many others. It was an amazing night!
Gary and Georgia had a great time performing songwriter shows on Holland America’s Country Music Cruise along with a stellar line-up of country music favorites, including Billy Dean, Jimmy Fortune, Chuck Mead, Dani Flowers and Jon Vezner. They got to go to Nassau Bahamas, Miami and Grand Cay.
Do you have a favorite song that you’ve heard Gary or Georgia play at one of their shows? Would you like to own a handwritten copy of those lyrics and hang them on your wall? Georgia or Gary (depending on who wrote it) would be happy to write it out for you; sign it and send it your way. For price and payment information, please send them an email at middlemanburr@gmail.com
Please join us for our FB LIVE evening performance Wednesday, Mar. 6th at 8:30 p.m. CT! We’ll be playing songs of ours you requested through the week. To request, please email us at: middlemanburr@gmail.com.over at our Middleman Burr Facebook Page.
Click HERE to go to our page and if you hit LIKE, you’ll be notified when we go live.
Please join Gary and Georgia as they kick off 2024 with their first Facebook show of the year on Sunday, Jan. 7th! They will go live on their Middleman Burr Facebook page at 2:00 pm CST. If at first you don’t see the show pop up, go ahead and refresh your page and it should show up then. Hope to see you there!
Gary and his CSN acoustic band “Laurel Canyon” (with Mark Hudson & Mark Mirando) played The Cutting Room on Tuesday, Feb. 13th and had a great time with that crowd!