(Billy Currinton's CD Cover for "Tangled Up" one of his latest hits)
Hey Y'all!
Now you see why you will want to start reading this blog every week?
Cowboy Bill's Honky Tonk Saloon is bringing you our first big Nashville act LIVE and up close this coming weekend . . . none other than Billy Currington! (Click the red link to go directly to his website.)
Some of you women (and guys, after all, this IS Key West) may have seen Billy Currington in a recent issue of Playgirl Magazine. The cover shot is the photo above. Billy did not take his clothes off for the shoot (sorry, Ladies, but maybe you can coax him to ride our bull Saturday night with his shirt off), but we hear there was one heckuva story about him on the inside.
I play a load of Billy Currington songs at Cowboy Bill's and our bands sometimes cover his songs. Here's a list of Billy's most memorable songs which some of you probably have on your iPods or MP3 players or are hearing on XM or Sirius Satellite Radio or even on our local Conch Country Radio Station 98.7:
1. Good Directions
2. Must Be Doin' Somethin' Right
4. Why, Why, Why
5. Tangled Up
8. She's Got a Way With Me
10. Time With You
12. When She Gets Close to Me
14. Off My Rocker
Friday Night, April 18th, 2008 the concert with Billy Currington will be FREE at Mallory Square!
The Friday show will be part of the World Sailfish Championship for Monroe Country Concert at Mallory Square! This show will be FREE admission!
Come down, watch the Sunset Festivities, and enjoy the wet bar set up by Cowboy Bill's Honky Tonk Saloon. We'll be selling beer and the usual "spirits" you drink (we might break the all time Jagger Bomb record down at Mallory) and we'll also have a food vendor on site.
The excellent food will be brought to you by our good friends from The Dolphin Deli up on Stock Island. (Yum, yum, my favorite lunch sandwiches in the Keys.)
Opening for Billy Currington will be Cowboy Bill's feature performer for this week . . . Nashville Recording Artist Chad Bradford!
At Cowboy Bill's, we frequently play two of Chad's new CD cuts, "Cornbread Fed" and "Passing Lane" both of which are very upbeat and danceable.
(Yeah, ladies, he's single too!)
His shows are high energy and the dancefloor always gets a little wild when he's on stage.
That said, after Chad bows off stage this Friday night, get ready for the one and only Billy Currington!
This past Monday night, one of our regulars, Julie, signed a Monday Money Madness entry form and at the bottom where it says, "Favorite Artist" she filled in "Billy Currington"
She squealed and slapped me and said, "You're kidding me?"
To which Julie quit listening to me and got on her cellphone and started calling all her friends at midnight to tell them who was coming to town . . . and it ain't Santa Claus.
(Concert shot of Billy Currington when he sported a beard)
So, we know this show at Mallory will be well attended. After all, the usual Sunset Celebration crowd will be there. And then you add in all the World Sailfish Championship Fishermen and Fisherwomen. And then you add all the crazy country music fans in the Florida Keys and well, you got the right idea, a few thousand people should be there to enjoy the FREE show.
Again, right after Chad Bradford warms up the crowd, Billy Currington will take stage with two of his songwriting buddies, Dallas Davidson and Brett Jones.
Dallas Davidson co-wrote with Jamey Johnson and Randy Houser the No. 1 Trace Adkins hit "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk"! (If you don't know that song, you haven't been living on Planet Country.) The first song Dallas wrote upon arriving in Nashville in 2004 was the hit "Kiss My Country Ass" which was recorded by both Rhett Atkins and Hank Williams Jr.
Originally from near Macon, Georgia, Brett James first started writing songs at age 16. His first major cut was "God Made Woman," on Tracy Lawrence's I See It Now album, which went multi-platinum. Brett has had 10 top ten country records in the past ten years including four .. 1 hits,"You Gotta Love That," by Neal McCoy, "A Little Past Little Rock," by Lee Ann Womack, "Better Man Better Off," by Tracy Lawrence and "You Won't Ever Be Lonely," by Andy Griggs.
James also wrote one of my favorite songs"I Wanna Be a Hillbilly" which Billy Currington turned into a smash hit.
So, what's the deal about the Billy Currington show the next night at Cowboy Bill's Honky Tonk Saloon?
All right. Here's the 411.
We are going to be closed all day Saturday so we can prepare the bar for the Big Billy Currington show that night.
Gates open at 6:00 PM sharp.
Now hear this:
1. NO tickets will be sold in advance . . . AND . . .
2. Only 300 people will be admitted at $10 per head.
Why is Cowboy Bill's Honky Tonk Saloon only allowing 300 people in to see Billy Currington on Saturday?
Well that question answers itself.
When we had our recent Big Ass Super Bowl party, we held the party to 300 people. It was a perfect sized celebration. People were not having problems walking through the crowd, you could be served drinks easily, there were no lines for the rest rooms, and everyone could see the games on the screens throughout the property.
You know what it's like to go to a General Admission concert in a big auditiorium and never be able to get close enough to see the act on stage?
That's not going to happen at Cowboy Bill's with the Billy Currington show.
Nope.
Everybody who is one of the 300 lucky people to gain admission at $10 a head will definitely find they will enjoy the relaxed atmosphere of a "just right" sized crowd, in which if you're standing right in front of the stage and you need to go to the bathroom or want to order a drink, no problem, you can do so.
Again, the gates open at 6 PM.
The show will begin after the sun goes down.
All Billy Currington fans admitted will receive wristbands indentifying you are of age to drink and that you paid to be admitted. And remember, once we sell 300 wristbands . . . THAT'S ALL SHE WROTE, FOLKS!
And yes, Chad Bradford will open so you will see and boogey to two bands on stage throughout this sure to be memorable night.
So, get here early on Saturday . . . gates open at 6:00 PM . . . no advance ticket sales . . . tickets cost $10.00 per person.
Friday's show at Mallory Square will be starting around 8:00 PM, and although that show will be less intimate, you couldn't ask for a more scenic view. And by the way, Billy Currington and Chad Bradford will be playing on a $1 million stage with booming sound and excellent lighting brought to you by Jaggermeister.
Come to the show on Friday or Saturday. Or plan on attending both of them.
You know the Saturday show will sell out after people hear Billy Currington or Chad Bradfordfor the first time. I don't care if the people milling about at Mallory Square never listen to country music, they will become fans with the snap of the fingers.
And you know many of the thousands of people at Mallory will want to see Billy Currington in a smaller venue where they can actually walk up and ask for an autograph or take a photo.
So, you'd better plan on getting to Cowboy Bill's earlier than 6:00 PM on Saturday, because our guess is some people will be standing in line.
Okay gang, that's it for the biggest news for April 2008. Come see us, come see Billy Currington and friends, come see Chad Bradford and the Damn Band. We'll see you either at Mallory Square or Cowboy Bills.
And don't forget we serve the strongest drinks on Duval Street and our beer is the Coldest Beer in this Hemisphere!
Lastly, let's give the Ladies one last look at Mr. Currington to make sure they will attend the shows in full force:
(Billy Currington pensively wondering if Key West women are going to make it to his show?)
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