The Embleton Sessions Part Two

I thought I'd post a pic of the evening gig the second night. Lots of people came, and drank lots of wine. They got noisy very quickly, during my acoustic set, but I didn't care because I was still fired up from the daytime, and apparently the chef really liked it! Martin came and played Heaven Avenue with me, the best he's ever played it, it was absolutely beautiful. he did a short set but even more wine had been drunk by then so the guys got up to join him and launched into a full-scale Sun-sessions rockabilly set, then songs from Sweet Misdemeanour, a CD that Martin and Joe released a while back. Do you know, I got up and played guitar while they were doing this and I could play almost everything once I knew what the beginning chord was. And the audience leapt to their feet and started jiving. The atmosphere was fantastic, i just couldn't stop playing and I thought my fingers were going to bleed. The young 'un was playing along really confidently, doing a brilliant version of Tequila, the double bass was thwacking, Martin and Joe were singing, it was brilliant. I only stopped when Martin had broken four strings and I lent him my guitar because I honestly think my fingers would have worn thru to the bone if I'd carried on. But then of course, you just try sitting still with music like that going on; you have to dance until your legs drop off!