Wow

I knew that the concert was going to be good, but I never expected what we got. The guy that opened was good, then Butch came out and played for probably an hour on his own. All but 3 songs were new and all the new songs were incredible. The show was originally billed as a "solo, acoustic" show and the two nights in Atlanta were supposed to cap off a month long tour. He had to post-pone the other dates though and since he didn't get to do the rest of the tour, he told us that he didn't have time to put together a proper show. So during a song, "Stateline", his backup band from the last album, the Let's-Go-Out-Tonight's, come out and join him. They played a bunch of songs that pretty much covered Butch's entire career. They reached a point where Butch sat down at the piano and the rest of the band left the stage. Butch starts playing an old Marvelous 3 song, "Cigarette Lighter Love Song". After the first chorus, Jace and Slug, the drummer and bass player from the Marvelous 3 came out and finished out the song with him. The played a couple of more songs and then the LGOT's came back out and finished out the show with a few more songs and a great encore.

DeAnne and I were blown away. What we thought was going to be just Butch turned into that, plus a full-blown show with both the LGOT's and a Marvelous 3 reunion. It was probably the best show I've ever been to and I can't wait to see him again. We've already decided that no matter what, if he's ever close to us, we're going to the show.

The rest of the weekend was good too. We had a really great time, but I'm going to save the other stuff for the rest of the week so I'll have something to talk about. Have a good Monday.

--Paul