Phil,
You are correct. There is nothing going on during the day. Which was a bit of my "feeling lost" stuff. All of those guys sleep very late. They go to the all night guitar pull and that doesn't end until around 5:30 or 6:30 and I just don't stay up that late any more. There used to be a lot of that at the Frank Brown festival. In the place where those condos directly to the right (looking at it from the street) there used to be total beach and one house. That is the house that is located across the street now, known as the "River House." It used to be the "Beach house." That was the place everyone showed up after all the shows ended around 1-2:00 AM. All the hit writers used to show up, Hank Cochran, Danny Dill, Dean Dillon, Sonny Throckmorton, and all the really big dogs would go there after their shows.
The guitar pulls, would have about thirty people in them, but most of the songs were AMAZING! I played in a bunch of those, and it is how I know Allen Rhody and a bunch of the hit writers.
They do that at most of the Festivals. Smokey Mountain has it at the Gatlinburg Inn, on the front porch. Those end around 3:00 am. The Miss. has a hotel, the Gulf Resort, where their's is. That is the central location of that Festival.
The biggest problem in all of them, is that it usually has about 40-50 people playing. So you get about one song every two hours. And the songs are LOOOOOOOONNNNNNNNGGGGGGGG!!!!!
Mississippi really doesn't have anything going on during the day until Saturday. Then they have workshops all day and a "Youth" show at 2:30. This was the same time as the Alabama/Ole Miss game this year and I was not going to miss that. Was watching it with a bunch of the writers, half were Miss. people and half Alabama people. Was a lot of fun. A couple of the guys got into a bet that whenever their other team scored, they would have to buy a drink. Got pretty funny for a while, but then several of them had to go do a show. The final score was 48-43, Alabama. They would have been REALLY DRUNK by then!
Phil, we'll see you down at the beach. I'll be telling everyone the late night party is at OD and Phils! That should keep people going on down at your place until 5:00- or 6:00 am. Should be a lot of fun for you.
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