The Lovell Sisters were a great treat on Saturday night. I'd been told they were live wires. But they were also very talented musicians. And very young too, but they obviously had been given a good start in understanding life by their parents.
I say that because their original lyrics were generally wise beyond their years, and they were talking about influences that late teens don't normally recognize. There was a longer instrumental in recognition of Jimi Hendrix's birthday on Friday. It was obviously a bluegrass number, but it went through some pretty amazing chord changes and became almost hypnotic before they drew it to a close for an extended version of Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison Blues. The eldest of the three sisters, herself no more than 21 years of age, belted out the most mischievous version of that song I've ever witnessed.
There was a bit of everything in this show and I took it as a true omen of good things to come for the Don Gibson Theatre and for Uptown Shelby. When they finisihed up the second set the audience just sprange to their feet, no thinking about whether it was good enough for a big standing ovation! Anytime I can hear such good playing with such high energy I'll be there!
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