Today for post 662 on the way to post 666. Denver Joe and the Lovesick Saddle Tramps live at the Cricket on the Hill in the mid aughts. Thanks to Jake Norris for recording this and letting me share it.
If you're unfamiliar with Denver Joe. Here is a pretty good place to get up to speed on this Denver legend. The Denver publication Modern Drunkard had a profile on him long ago. Check it out here.
Also photo credit above goes to MD as well.
Joe passed away in 2018 and Westword did a profile on him as well
Joe and his band mates “Aunt” Lois and “Uncle” Dick Meis, played at the Capital Hill bar Cricket on the Hill for years and years. The would play at Benders for awhile after the Cricket closed. Joe was a salty old cuss on stage. If you yelled out a request he usually would let you have it. He called me a dirty hippy once for saying "Garth Brooks sucks". A Denver Joe show was part comedy act but he could really play as sing and Lois and Dick had a long music history and were stellar musicians.
He leans into the classic and outlaw country. But on this night we got a country version of a Supremes song. We think this show was around 05 or 06. He was drunken, vulgar & rude onstage but always a fun time. Fun one to revisit. Enjoy.
Denver Joe and the Lovesick Saddle Tramps
Cricket on the Hill
Denver CO (USA)
200X-XX-XX
Recorded: Jake Norris
Presented: SxPxDxCx
Source: SBD - MD
Transfer: MD - ? - MP3 - Audition - CDWave - MP3
Time: (58:50.54)
01 - intro -
02 Bloody Mary Morning (Willie Nelson)
03 They Call Me a Playboy (Buck Owens)
04 Okie From Muskogee (Merle Haggard)
05 - interlude -
06 Cocaine Blues (Johnny Cash)
07 Does Ft. Worth Ever Cross Your Mind (Jerry Lane)
08 Walkin' the Floor Over You (Ernest Tubb)
09 Mama Tried (Merle Haggard)
10 Santa Rosa (The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band)
11 Pancho and Lefty (Willie Nelson)
12 Where Did Our Love Go (The Supremes)
13 It Won't Hurt (Dwight Yoakam)
14 Battle of New Orleans (Johnny Horton)
