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     STEVE SOLO'S ARTICLE ABOUT THE OLDTIME COUNTRY MUSIC CLUB OF CANADA
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Tue Dec 21 2004, 08:46PM 	

Location: Rawdon Québec

	After an absence of many years I finally returned to visit and 
play the Wheel Club. Hillbilly Bob Fuller's Oldtime Country Music 
Association meet there every Monday Nite. This group of acoustic musicians, 
fans and supporters have been meeting in various niteclubs around Montréal 
since 1966. Playing their brand of American Country Music they revive the 
classic songs by Artists such as Hank Williams, Kitty Wells, George Jones 
and other singers based in Nashville. No piano or drums on Bob's stage 
where he has reined supreme for forty years. Guitars, bullFiddle, banjos, 
mandolins, lap-steel, wahboard or harmonica only. To qualify as OLDTIME 
repertoire a song had to be over 25 yearsold, so all of the new country 
was definately off limits.

It started for me a quarter century ago at the Blue Angel Café where my 
father was a patron. One nite he asked me to meet him down there and then 
soon after I got there arranged that I sing a Bobby Bare song called 
"Detroit City". I was no stranger to the stage having played since 
highschools in the sixties and the down home feel of the country music 
made me a fan of the music and the jam.

So I returned evry monday nite to sing more songs and learn how to play 
country style on the big Bass. Bob even let me take it home to my digs on 
Aylmer St. There I could practice with it during the week, as long as it 
came back for showtime. In 1982 I wrote a song modeled after an oldtime 
country music classic and used the Blue Angel as a background for the 
story. I sang it every chance I could and even though it didn't qualify 
it was allowed because it talked about the now famous country music 
institution on a Montréal Monday.

Well although it still doesn't quite qualify for OLDTIME status yet the 
song got sung once again before an appreciative audience. After an absence 
of nearly 5 years Steve whateverhisnamisnow hits a home run with a home 
made song and sells 5 CDs to an eager group in front of the stage.

I called Craig Morisson in the afternoon to say that I was interested in 
going down to the present location of the Oldtime Country Music at the 
Wheel Club on Cavendish just below Sherbrooke W. I knew my musical buddy 
was a regular there but being so close to Christmas I wondered if he had 
not gone to visit family on west coast for the Holidays.. I also phoned 
another old band-mate guitarist Ted Danko, to ask for his presence also 
and both men assured me they would be there to meet me. We all took turns 
playing with the ensemble and Craig and I got up together when I played 
bass on his set.

It was a night of rétrouvailles and also a chance to make new aquaintances. 
I was well received by the members and asked to come back and sing again.


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