Lonesome Coyotes
GIGS THE COYOTES HAVE PLAYED, IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER:
Yosemite Sam's, Cat's Meow, the Longbranch Saloon, Britt's, all on the Cumberland Avenue strip in Knoxville;
Thunderbird Lounge-Newport, TN; KD's Lounge-Midtown, TN; The Corner Lounge; a Holiday Inn lounge-Opelika, AL; the lounge at the Knoxville Hyatt Regency; the Ambassador Lounge, downstairs from Catch One.
The Downhome-Johnson City, the Downyonder-Maryville, downtown Knoxville Saturday Night on the Town-the first one; Music on the Square in Jonesborough; Sundown in the City twice, once with Jeff Barbara and Sarah Pirkle, once with Buddy Miller in 43 degree rainy weather.
Saddles in Richmond, VA; Cowboy's in Myrtle Beach; Cody's in Manhattan, NY; Jane's Pickin' Parlor on the Clinton Highway; Rose & Crown-Nantucket, Mass; Jack of the Wood in Asheville; Jagger's in Gatlinburg; Blue Spruce in Maynardville (filling in for Ermil Flatford); Sam's on Kingston Pike; Uncle Sam's on Alcoa Highway; Silver Dollar City; Barley's ; and what was the name of that club in Atlanta?
Hillbilly Homecoming, Maryville, TN, opening for Johnny Rodriguez, Jim Ed Brown, Larry Gatlin, and Johnny Free (Saturday Night at the Paradise Knife & Gun Club); Britt's with John Hartford; the Ambassador Lounge with Jumpin' Bill Carlisle; Tennessee Theater with Asleep at the Wheel; Longbranch Saloon with Amazing Rhythm Aces; twice on Bob Braun's syndicated talk show, first one with Porter Waggoner, second one we shared a dressing room with Clarabelle; ABC soap opera One Life to Live with Asa Buchanan-'81; Backwooods Boogie in Caryville with Bill Monroe.
Live every Wednesday at Buddy's BarBQ-'81; hot air balloon convention at Forks of the River-'78; a year at the World's Fair, mostly at Buddy's BarBQ-'82; Alive After 5 at the Knoxville Museum of Art; Live on the radio and the worldwideweb on WDVX's BluePlate Special.
Wedding at the Laurel Theater, wedding reception at Temple Beth El, several weddings in the woods, a wake where ashes were fired off into the woods, Mary Pat Tyree's birthday party (her 18th?) at Big Ed's Pizza, demolition derby on Nantucket, opening of a skateboard park, 4th of July picnic for Hammer's in Clinton,(if you haven't been to Hammer's, you haven't been to Clinton); Burger King parking lot on Chapman Highway, private party on a riverboat; and a party for southeastern region archaeologists.
Hank Days in the Old City, Blue Plum Festival in Johnson City, Governor's Inaugural Ball in Raleigh, NC, Dogwood Arts Festival on Market Square, NoGate Festival on Middlebrook Pike, Buddy's Race Against Cancer; Esco's Rodeo with Bull Rooker and Jimmy Rector, Great Semiannual Buffalo Chip Roundup at Bean's Barn in Norris, TN.
In concert at the Foundry, in concert at Laurel Theater, in concert at Maryville College Fine Arts Center with Dana Paul and Jim Kershaw, Community Shares Circle of Change dinner, Museum of Appalachia, reunion concert at the Bijou with Dana Paul and R.B. Morris-'02, 4th of July concert at Brookhaven Farms with Stella Parton.
And surely some have been left out. If you remember something not mentioned here, jog our memory with a note on our guestbook.