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and out of the lineup at different venues. Collectively we are The Shadowville All-Stars. Artists who share the stage with us in a live performance become Shadowville Allstars forever. It’s kind of like the Baseball Hall-of-Fame, only you can’t kicked out for gambling...” -Dennis Beck Put them together and we indeed have a grand old time... join us?
by Will Dockery
“Battle not with monsters, lest ye become a monster, and if you gaze into the abyss, the abyss gazes also into you...” -Friedrich Nietzsche
Coming Round Again on the Shadowville Express Great acoustic music shows for all ages at Fountain City Coffeehouse on Broadway: Open Mic with Dr. Pogo Thursdays at 7. March 4- Shaun Crane; 5- Ty Izumi; 11 - Matt Austin; 12- Brittany Avery; 18 - Will Dockery and Friends; 19- Fire Mountain; 25- Hermel Fortin. And the usual great shows around town this month: Random Band Jam is March 16; Brad Cox on Wednesdays at DelRanch; Henry & Geno’s open mic talent show on Thursdays and Sundays at Del Ranch; Tripp Wrigley’s superb Tuesday open mic at SoHo; live music Wednesdays at The Vault with the likes of Brittany Avery and Zac Young, great shows on Wednesdays at River City Grill, including my friends David Schwimmer & the Conley Brothers on March 16th, who will be on the radio on Bear O’Brien show March 11th. And just in, the legendary folk hero Rick Edwards and his band will be at Max’s on March 25th. The list goes on, as does the beat, as Sonny Bono might say. Don’t forget, Hogbottom is April 30th, more on that next month...
Shadowville All-Stars at Doo-Nanny 2011, Sunday March 27th, 12pm - 9pm Location: Woods of Wonder, 41 Poorhouse Road, Seale, Alabama “Doo-Nanny is... A truly unique experience!.... a casserole of southern folk art, home cookin, homemade movies, camping, foot-stompin music, experimental architecture, guessing, oddities, unusual characters, a movie festival, surprises, cracker ingenuity, experiential transomism, and much more!... Folks coming in from NY, TX, CA, and beyond beyond...” While the Shadowville All-Stars are: “...the musical canvas for the word paintings of Will Dockery, the Poet Laureate of Shadowville. The group represents a vision for a multi-faceted arts ensemble. Individually, we are a dozen-or-so merry pranksters who rotate in
Nashville Songwriters Associa on Interna onal
Columbus Regional Workshop “It All Begins With A Song”
she’s no bum.
Her creep crawls the narrow stairway of the Candlelight Motel to watch for her from a window.
But she’s not there on the other side of the greenish wall.
Rethinking his infatuation but clinging to his vision of her as the red lipped stranger.
Next Mee ng: Tuesday, March 8, 7pm Sponsored in part by Every genre of music is welcome A lesson will be provided by NSAI on
Downstairs the desk clerk’s cat slithers through the service entrance.
how to further the knowledge and Patron’s Lounge – 2nd Floor craŌ of songwriƟng. Bring along a CD (Entrance: Broadway between 9th or your guitar and fiŌeen copies of and 10th Streets) your lyric sheet for a song evaluaƟon.
The vampirate on a motorbike passes below to the westbound bridge werewolf on her back.
Songwriters Night Every Wednesday 7-9pm RIVERCITY GRILL OPEN MIC: Tuesday 9pm SoHo • Wednesday 8pm The Lo Live • Thursday 8pm Fountain City Coffee Thursday & Sunday 8:30pm Del Ranch
Jennifer at riverbend watches gunboats smacks her foot on the bright red clay.
Please call or email with quesƟons or for direcƟons. Kim Sammons, Nona ChrisƟe, & Doug Cox coordinators NSAI Columbus Chapter, 706-565-7362. NSAI.cols.ga@knology.net myspace.com/nsaicolumbusga hƩp://www.nashvillesongwriters.com hƩp://www.nsaicolumbusga.org PlayGrounds Magazine
Red Lipped Stranger
Jennifer gives good lyric she wrote this poem 12
Through a three-inchwall he hears bedsprings rattle rustle of dry-hump, some guy’s mumbles. Hears the fat blonde waitress whip it in bondage the sounds lull him to sleep. The hand of Uncle Sugar still taking notes as a new standard bearer hands out trophies to the winners. His trillion dollar gash flakes from the bone as gravity tears a pound of dust. Clings to a picture book the missing part of himself as if perpetually
anchored to his invisible erection. At Lucky Seven Lounge she tries not to reveal herself but she stubbornly clutches her empty shoes. Something seems missing in the broad daylight when the details are displayed. All that remains are her flat black hat her oversized lantern her broken laptop. No poor boy on the street can speak of her or the island on the river. Or about her return... her resurrection. -Will Dockery Music, poetry and video of Will Dockery & Friends: http://www.youtube.com/ user/WDockery March 2011