Big Leather Couch

Ever have one of those weekends...Not that it is a bad weekend...or an especially good weekend...not a weekend where you worked the entire time...not one of those weekends where you did absolutely nothing?

Yeah...I had one of those this weekend. Woke up TOO early on Saturday and took care of some business for MUSIC ON THE COUCH

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Tonight's show comes to us with the assistance of good friend Julie who saw The Brighter Side Band at a Blues Fest in Canton.

She called me during their set to give me a cell-cert (which never really work, but we all love them anyway!) and after listening to some of their music on line I realized they were "Musicians You Should Know".

Then I sit with Rich deCicco who is the front man for the group The Ladies Of Sport out of Brooklyn NY. Their blend of pop-rock is cool and I hope you enjoy them also.

Now, I know this is week one of the Fall TV Season...and of course there is Monday Night Football...so aren't you so dang lucky that you can download the podcast after it ends and listen any time you want! You can even listen in parts if you choose!

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With Nancy having been gone the entire week and having long days, we opted not to drive the 2 hours to Greeenville, MS for the Blues Fest there. It is a great time and we knew a few people playing, but Helena and The Biscuit is just a couple of weeks away, October 6, 7, and 8.

The lineup is stellar once again with Buddy Guy, Delbert McClinton and Keb Mo headlining the three days. The cool part of this festival is the two second stages, which are free to attend. One is now called The Rising Biscuit stage where up and coming bands get the chance to show off their stuff. One of our past Couch-sitters, Cee Cee James is getting her shot on that stage. On the Lockwood-Stackhouse Stage, we will get to see friends Papa Don McMinn and Nightrain, The Wampus Cats, Andy Coates,
On the main stage, Lionel Young Band gets to perform as part of their winning the 2011 International Blues Challenge, along with Reba Russell and Room Full of Blues with James Cotton.

So many great bands are going to be there, the difficult part is deciding who to see and who to miss...

Digging my Fantasy football teams so far. This week's games are not all decided, but so far I like the distribution of points I am getting from the players on the teams. The money league is looking sweet.

Thanks y'all for coming!

• Friday afternoon - Had my first feature published on AMERICAN BLUES NEWS where they used my review of Barbara Blue's new album "Royal Blue", which you can find HERE. This week my three day review of the Arkansas Heritage and Blues Festival (now the King Biscuit Heritage and Blues Festival). I hope to be a regular contributor there.
• Friday night - big Yankee comeback
• Saturday - big Yankee stumble
• Sunday - NY Giants win
• Doc's Blog and Twitter League - win 2 - 4- 0 (yeah, not so good here)
• Jay's Open Bar League - loss - 3 -3
• ABL Fantasy League - loss - 4 - 2 (thanks Phillip Rivers and your -3 points)
• King Of The Hill Survivor League - win - 1 out of 3 of our "teams" left - 27 out of 126 teams left
• Phone Calls From Church League - TBD, we are up by 9 points. This league is a scoring only league. You score, you get 6 pts. Def gets a point for Ints and sacks. So a running back can get 200yds and not cross the goal line...you get ZIP.  It is also the only money league I play and have played for 9 years. 

• Huge Game Tonight - Pettitte v Lee - The Ballpark in the Bronx

• MNF - The NFL decided to give us Tennessee v Jacksonville - snorrrrrrrrrrrre

• Music On The Couch -  Rob Drabkin a singer-songwriter who is making waves out of Denver with his infectious rock and pop and the band Tin Pan...a very cool swing, jazz, blues band out of New York City.

Yeah, I know I end up losing out on the live audience, but I hope y'all download and listen.   Some big shows coming up over the next few weeks.

Well, my first day back at the office was kinda rough to be honest. These oral steroids and the anti-inflammatory meds are kicking my a**. Thankfully, I am done with them now.

I just feel as if I am outside my body at all times. My appetite is non-existent - I sit to eat and find I don't really want anything. It might be because my taste-buds seem to be all out of whack also.

I did get through most of the day, leaving around 3:30 and heading home where I napped for a couple of hours before doing the show.

Hopefully, I will begin to feel better today as I am not taking those meds any longer.

Working on rating my players for Fantasy Football. My main league drafts on Labor Day, but I have already had a draft in one of the other fun leagues I am in and another draft is scheduled for the third league soon.

Three leagues may be too much, as I am finding in baseball. But the fun leagues I just go along with, while the main league gets most of my attention.

I am getting a ton of spam comments every day. Fortunately they are all on older posts and I have it set that I must moderate comments on posts more than 5 days old. I don't really read the comments before deleting but they seem to have a ton to do with Carrie Prejean or sexual stimulation - or maybe that is one subject!

Any of you experiencing this barrage of spam lately?

Lays Sour Cream and Onion chips are the best....