Monica Perry
Gary P. Nunn and the Bunkhouse Band played Dosey Doe in The Woodlands last Thursday night, with Monica Perry as the opening act. I have enjoyed Gary P. Nunn's music for many years but had never seen him in concert. While having breakfast at Dosey Doe before Christmas we decided to get tickets and were able to get seats next to the stage, just to the left of the stage.
The four of us were literally all less than 8 feet from Gary, and I was 5 feet from the lead guitar, .
Monica Perry opened and she was very good. She is from Texas and is working in Nashville, writing and performing. She has a nice voice and is an excellent fiddle player. Her original songs were very good as was her cover of "Bob Will Is Still The King", "The South Is Going To Do It Again", and "Orange Blossom Special". If you see her listed as performing again at Dosey Doe, it would be worth attending.
Gary P. Nunn
Gary has streamlined his band with a lead guitar, bass, and drummer along with himself. It might seem like you would miss a lot with piano, fiddle, and steel guitar, but they pull of all of the songs very well. They opened with a song from his first album, Nobody But Me followed by Kara Lee , about his first wife who he joked that he got a son and three good songs out of. A partial set list is :
Nobody But Me
Kara Lee
Austin Pickers
Why Don’t You Meet Me Down In Corpus
My Kind Of Day On Padre
What I Like About Texas
London Homesick Blues
Roadtrip
Terlingua Sky
Macho Man From Taco Land
He told a story about Rusty Weir, another Texas country outlaw, who died last year. He said the story was funny and sad. The doctors told Rusty that he had liver cancer and Rusty said "I've got a liver?"
After the break they came back with electric guitars and really cooked with songs from the new album set to be released in March. I want to get it as soon as it comes out. A very fine evening of genuine Texas music in a perfect setting of a 100+ year old Kentucky barn transplanted to Texas. You just can beat sitting that close to the stage and the performers with a cold Lonestar listening to outlaw Texas western swing progressive country rock.
I give the concert 5 stars.
Monica Perry
