Hi gang!

Tuesday’s Cleveland Music Club jam was a total blast! Big thanks to hosts Rob Hayes and Justin Butcher, jammers John Hamley, Bob Laeng, Mike Cottom, Doug, John Kerver, TJ Plechaty, Greg McGill, Greg Kern, Don Lydon, Dan Elliott, Mike Cottom, “Grav” (Josh, Josh, Steve, Clay Craig), Joan Skelley-Watts, Debra, Ron Jackson, and Robert A. DeVries and Roger, Vern, Jess, George, the Dancing Marilyns and the rest of the ‘Frog Faithful’ for hanging out with us! Many thanks also to Bullfrog’s Sports Cafe and Dirty Town Guitar and Amps for making our Tuesday night jams possible!

Friday at the Blue Turtle, the house was packed for our Slim N’ Shady happy hour show. It was great to see Chris, Daryl, Dave and all of the Turtle crew out and about! Thanks for hanging out with us and singing along!

Saturday’s Shady Drive gig at Fairview Tavern attracted a great crowd as well! Big thanks to our pals from Rockne’s (Amy, Dino, Chris, Torrie, George & Jimmy), Sandy, Ken, Gerald, Marilyn, Beth, John, A.J., Keith, Kim and the rest of the Tavern gang for partying with us all night!

Coming up this week…

The Cleveland Music Club – CMC Jam happens every Tuesday at Bullfrog’s Sports Cafe (33137 Center Ridge Rd., N. Ridgeville, 8:30 – 12:30). This week’s guest hosts are ‘Furious’ George Hartwig and Gary ‘G Rock’ Stulak! Our sponsor each and every week is Dirty Town Guitar and Amps (15230 Madison Ave. Lakewood)! Full backline (two guitar amps, bass amp, SONOR DRUMS and PA) is provided, so bring your favorite axe, sticks or just your party attitude and dancin’ shoes and come join the fun!

Shady Drive is off this week, but there’s a lot of live music to be experienced! Go out and catch a show and support Cleveland’s live music scene.

As always, you can pick up a copy of Shady Drive’s CD, “Darker Shade Of Blue” at all of our live shows, on Amazon, CDBaby or iTunes!

You can hear us often, along with other blues artists on http://www.bluesmusicfan.com

That’s all for this week! We’ll talk soon…

Mike :c)