

Musings on No 2 Unalike (# 2)
From Night One, November 4th, 2015 @ Ferg's
Butch Hancock's "Split and Slide" and my own "Wonder and Pray" I first heard of Butch Hancock in the Fall of 1987. Living in NYC at the time, I'd gone down to the Beacon Theater to see Dwight Yoakum. Opening the show was Joe Ely whose name I'd been hearing for a while but had never actually heard. On this particular night, Ely wasplaying solo and he knocked me out. In fact, Yoakum and his six piece band sounded pretty slight, to