The Eel Pie Club

There's no place like home.

And for us, the Eel Pie Club is definitely home away from home.  Although it's been five years, a bunch of our old friends showed up, brought their friends, and the place was packed out.  The band was so fired up from the crowds energy that I kept turning around and seeing big smiles on their faces. 

Our good friend, Pete Sargeant, sat in with us twice.  On the studio version of "Life's Too Short", my brother (Neil Alexander) plays harp, but he's not with us on this tour.  So when Pete showed up, I said "Hey Pete!  You play harp!  Got one that you can play over a tune in C?  Yeah?  Great!  You know the tune "I Wish You Would"?  Well, do a riff like that.  Call and response.  What are playing?  Don't worry about it.  I'll call you up on the fourth song of the set, be ready!"

And he was.  He came up, and did a great job!  We did a 50 minute set, took a really quick ten minute break, and went up for the second (last) set.  Pete came up again and sang "I Get Nervous", a Willie Dixon song.  Now it was our turn to play a song we never heard before, and it was fun!  The crowd was very responsive, to put it mildly.  When we played "Blues Enough", the audience chimed right in on the chorus.  When we did the encore (Son House's "Death Letter"), the applause was louder than the band when we played full out.

Once more, the Eel Pie Club (and the wonderful people who run it, Warren and Gina) showed us a fantastic time and the sort of response every band hopes for.