Gregg Fells (Mobile) closes out the Hank Becker Tribute and SouthSounds 2012 with “Grandma’s Hands,” “Wade in the Water” and “Georgia.”

Borland on Food: Butch Cassidy’s Cafe
Timothy Borland

“Robbing a train takes time and preparation…So Do Our Burgers!” Butch
Cassidy’s Café is a popular Midtown destination established by Roy Seewer in 1993.
The name of the café pays tribute to the classic Paul Newman and Robert Redford
movie, as well as Seewer’s favorite biker bar in Houston, Texas.

“Its what’s between the buns that counts,” says Seewer in reference to
his ‘soon to be famous’ Butch Burger. The nearly plate-size 9 oz masterpiece comes
fully dressed with bacon, cheese, lettuce, onion, tomato, and pickles. The popular
order has won multiple local awards from Mobile Bay Monthly and the Mobile
Press-Register.

In addition to burgers, other customer favorites include the Rio Grande
Nachos and Baggs Wyoming Buffalo wings. The legendary chicken wings were
voted “best over all wings” in Bob Baumhower’s Wing Bowl 1 and 2 in 2006.

For those 21 and up, happy hour is from 3-7pm mon-fri featuring 2 for 1
wings and drink specials such as $1.75 domestics and $6 pitchers of Miller Light and
Yuengling. The restaurant also offers a low-carb menu for the health conscious, daily
specials, and discount coupons via restaurants.com. Patrons are often treated to
performances by some of the best local musicians in Mobile.

Butch Cassidy’s Café is an example of another independent business
continuing to do well in spite of the recession. This success can be attributed
to local media support, loyal customers, and an emphasis on quality ‘cooked-to-
order’ food. “I think our customers appreciate that we have always kept our prices
reasonable,” says Seewer.

Butch Cassidy’s Cafe
Monday thru Saturday 11am-10pm
60 North Florida St
251-450-0690
www.butchcassidys.com

12th Annual WAVERLY BOOGIE
Sat. APRIL 21 12pm-7pm

Waverly, Alabama

featuring:
CENTRO-MATIC
LEE BAINS III & The GLORY FIRES
GLOSSARY w/ AUSTIN LUCAS
PINE HILL HAINTS
HURRAY for the RIFF RAFF
LAZYBIRDS
SOUL COALITION of East Alabama

Tickets $15.    See www.waverlyboogie.com

SPONSORS :
The Guitar Shoppe, This Is American Music.com,
Wickles Pickles, Wildmansteve.com, Standard Deluxe Inc.

Trombone Shorty at Soul Kitchen Friday 4/20

3 years ago New Orleans’ Troy “Trombone Shorty” Andrews & Orleans Avenue were playing to a lucky 200 people in Mobile’s Bienville Square at the Gulf Coast Ethnic & Heritage Jazz Festival. Now he is touring the world and playing on Treme, Jay Leno, David Letterman and Conan O’Brien. His 2010 release Backatown was one of the best albums of the year nationally, followed by 2011’s For True. Troy is the grandson of Jessie “Ooh Poo Pah Doo” Hill and is a graduate of NOCCA.

His 2011 DeLuna and Hangout Fest performances were some of the most talked about:

“I had the great good fortune of spending a large part of my boyhood wandering through beautiful mixed woods of south Alabama.”

In This new book, The Social Conquest of Earth, Mobile native E.O. Wilson describes how social creatures like ants, bees and humans were able to thrive and conquer the earth. He describes this as a balance between the individual’s selfish gene and altruistic behavior in groups.

According to Scientific American:

In The Social Conquest of Earth, Wilson offers a full explanation of his latest thinking on evolution. Group dynamics, not selfish genes, drive altruism, he argues: “Colonies of cheaters lose to colonies of cooperators.” As the cooperative colonies dominate and multiply, so do their alleged ”altruism” genes. Wilson uses what he calls “multilevel selection”—group and individual selection combined—to discuss the emergence of the creative arts and humanities, morality, religion, language and the very nature of humans. Along the way, he pauses to reject religion, decry the way humans have despoiled the en­vironment and, in something of a non sequitur, dismiss the need for manned space exploration. The book is bound to stir controversy on these and other subjects for years to come.

Hear the NPR interview here.

Wilson was born in Birmingham, and grew up in Mobile. He began a survey of the ants of Alabama as a teenager, including the first report of red imported fire ants in the U.S. in 1942 (the lot at 552 Charleston St., Mobile, next door to his house at 550) at the age of thirteen. He attended the University of Alabama as an undergraduate and received his Ph.D. from Harvard. His autobiography is titled Naturalist. Other books include Nature Revealed: Selected Writings, 1949-2006.

A biography Wilson “Lord of the Ants” on PBS’ Nova, can now be watched online.

Bay City Brass Band
Soul Kitchen: Friday 4/13 7pm
Alabama Music Box: Saturday 4/14 11pm

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Cockfight
Alabama Music Box: Sunday 4/15 9pm

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Digital Organix with Venom and Regenerates
Hopjacks: Sunday 4/15 6pm

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El Cantador
Alabama Music Box: Friday 4/13 1am
Bienville Square: Saturday 4/14 1pm

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Garrett Thornton
Bienville Square: Saturday 4/14 12pm
Serda’s: Saturday 4/14 8pm

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Gregg Fells

Soul Kitchen: Saturday 4/14 7pm
Cathedral Square: Sunday 4/15 3pm (Hank Becker Tribute)

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Handsome Scoundrels
The Blind Mule: Friday 4/13 10pm

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Lane Fisher
Hopjacks: Sunday 4/15 3pm

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Rudy Andrews
Serda’s: Friday 4/13 7pm

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The Suzies
The Blind Mule: Friday 4/13 11pm

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Underhill Family Orchestra
Cathedral Square: Friday 4/13 8pm
The Blind Mule: Saturday 4/14 11pm

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Wide Eyed Walker
Cathedral Square: Sunday 4/15 1pm
Hopjacks: Sunday 4/15 4pm

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Wallace
Alabama Music Box: Saturday 4/14 2am

Birmingham’s Ol’ Elegante label recording artists Jackie Lo and Beitthemeans will be performing Sunday 4/15 at 7pm at Alabama Music Box – with free crawfish starting at 5pm.

Jackie Lo is a solo project by guitarist/singer Jacklyn Loquidis Hamric of Twinside, Sunny So Brite, and former front woman/bassist for One Minute GO. Jackie, a classically trained musician, picked up an electric guitar and didn’t look back. Her album Until I’m a Ghost was released December 2011 on Ol Elegante Records.

Beitthemeans, swaggering out from a dark shed somewhere deep in the pines of Sylacauga, cracks the whip on Southern rock. Bassist Casey Wilson, drummer Nathan Kelley and singer/guitarist Josh Jones partnered with Birmingham’s Ol Elegante studios and producer Lester Nuby for the band’s latest effort, Head Held High, which includes the infamous “God Wears a Houndstooth”.

Murfreesboro, Tennessee’s The Only Sons will be playing a FREE SouthSounds Preview Show at Alabama Music Box on Wednesday April 11th.

TOS is Kent Goolsby (guitars/vocals), Blake Loftis (drums) and Jonathan Merritt (bass). Their latest album When The New Wears Off has contributions on piano and vocals by fellow Murfreesboro musicians Joey and Kelly Kneiser (Glossary) and proudly features an early  Rod Stewart-era 70’s rock sound. It will be available via This Is American Music April 24th.

“there are a few bands out there, at least that i know of, with the talent and probably passion to produce a record or two that could be considered classics. they may not be doing it now, but like i said its up their sleeve, i just know it. one of them bands is murfeesboro’s the only sons, who just recently released their american stranger. much like their murfeesboro neighbors, glossary, every record seems to exhibit an ever growing confidence to push the band a little further than before whether it be kent eugene goolsby’s songwriting, or the super solid music that accompanies his springsteen-esque delivery/growl. part of their appeal, at least to me, is the honesty of mr goolsby’s lyrics and one minute they can seem to be on a whisky fueled bender with consequences being damned and the next song repenting from said bender. definitely one of the best records thus far of 2011, and i am gonna just go ahead and assume its gonna land in my top ten of 2011.” – captains dead

13ghosts – named after the classic 13 Alabama ghosts and Jeffrey by Thomasville’s late Kathryn Tucker Windham – has been around since the 1990s with chief songwriter Brad Armstrong, Sammy Boggan, Jason Lucia, and Andrew Vernon (now without Buzz Russell). They have recorded several albums with Skybucket Records and This Is American Music, and received high praise from outlets like Pitchfork Media – including Cicada (2005) and The Strangest Colored Lights (2008) and several self-released albums before that. Their newest releases (2011) are Liar’s Melody and Garland of Bottle Flies, the former of which include two collaborations with Maria Taylor – “Broken Objects” and “Liar’s Melody.”

Band Bio:

• Early Summer / Late Fall of 2011 marked the official return of Birmingham, Alabama indie/lit/rawk band 13ghosts which had TWO releases in a span of 2 months – Garland Of Bottle Flies (Skybucket) and Liar’s Melody (This Is American Music). The funny thing about this is that the ghosts hadn’t released a record since 2008’s Pitchfork acclaimed Strangest Colored Lights (Skybucket). So what the heck happened during this time? Breakups, Death, Day Jobs, Lawyers for the estate of Bob Marley, and those damn Dexateens…
• The name is a reference not to the William Castle movie from 1960 or to the horrible 2001 remake, but to a collection of wonderfully haunting tales by Alabama folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham called “13 Alabama Ghosts And Jeffrey” – required reading for Alabama elementary school kids.
• Pitchfork gave the ghosts’ 2005 record Cicada a 7.9 rating and 2008’s Strangest Colored Lights a 7.6.
• Cicada gets pulled from distributors because of a copyright infringement on the ghosts re-working of a Bob Marley song and phrase – “Three Little Birds”.
• 13ghosts co-founder and co-songwriter (w/ Armstrong) Buzz Russell leaves the band in the middle of recording Garland of Bottle Flies.
• In late 2008 / early 2009 Armstrong joined up and began touring and playing guitar with Alabama Rock Gods, The Dexateens…Some sort of Dexateens revival happens. They play more shows than they ever did in their 10+ years of existence. May 2010 the road catches up to The Dexateens. They call it quits. Kind of…
• Armstrong gets uneasy and rallies the ghosts to go record a “where they are right now” record. Liar’s Melody gets delivered to the This Is American Music gang and within days of its delivery it is available immediately digitally via This Is American Music on August 15, 2011. Skybucket releases Garland Of Bottle Flies November 8, 2011. Available on cd/digital via Skybucket.
• 13ghosts was Paste Magazine’s Artist Of The Day – December 13, 2011

“Liars Melody is the hardest, crunchiest, most aggressive album 13ghosts have ever made, one that reflects Armstrong’s tenure in the Dexateens” – Paste Magazine

“Liar’s Melody is well sculpted, its balance of roots folk country bottled up with raisin’ hell southern rock.A well-crafted return from hiatus, 13ghosts’ Liar’s Melody will hold its own in modern southern rock and alt-country record bins.” – Consequence Of Sound

“Garland sounds more like their previous albums, fraught with unsettled conflicts and sundered relationships. The fruit of his perseverance is an album that sounds both enthrallingly messy and meticulously constructed, setting up camp in a bleak landscape where few other Southern rock bands will even set foot. – Paste Magazine

Cullman’s Vintage Cowboys are Zachary White (Lead Vocals), Wesley Duren (Drums/Backup Vocals), Dustin Duren (Guitar), and Jonathon Tidwell (Bass). They began playing live at local venues in and around Cullman, Alabama as well as bars in Birmingham such as Zydeco, Matthew’s Bar & Grill, and The Nick, and Mobile’s The Blind Mule.