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Kansas City - 8.26.12 Cigar Box Guitar Fest - Kansas City Missouri

Posted by Uncle John on July 1, 2012 at 9:31pm
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The KC CBG fest is hosted by Kevin Kraft. Held at BB's Lawnside BBQ & Blues. This is the real deal for blues and BBQ in a town that loves both. 8.26.12. I'm going to try the combination plate. ;}Kansas CityI'm going to [I] Kansas City, Kansas City here I come.I'm going to [IV] Kansas City, Kansas City here I come.They got some [V] crazy little women there and[IV] I’m gonna get me [I] one.Gonna stand on the corner of Twelfth Street & Vine.I'’ll be standing on the corner on the corner of Twelfth Street & Vine.With my Kansas City baby and a bottle of Kansas City wine.Well I might take a train I might take a plane,but if I have to walk I'm gonna get there just the same.I'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I come.InstrumentalI'm going to Kansas City, Kansas City here I comeThey got some crazy little women there and I’m gonna get me one.by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller in 1952. First recorded by Little Willie Littlefield the same year.Later became a #1 hit when it was recorded by Wilbert Harrison in 1959.

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  • Uncle John July 19, 2012 at 8:00am
    Hey, C. Got the info off to you.
  • Mr.C July 8, 2012 at 6:42pm
    Send me some info on that i have a sister in kc
  • Uncle John July 5, 2012 at 8:52pm

    Ha,  good one eK! 

    Thanks Letha.  Loved your latest too.

  • Letha Allen July 5, 2012 at 8:49pm

    Loved this John. Nice sound and good song. Love harp too! Thanks!

  • eK July 5, 2012 at 8:25pm

    Nice performance from one of my favorite duos here.

    Apparently John lives what he sings too. Seems he's got himself one of those "little women" he's talkin'' about.

  • Uncle John July 4, 2012 at 6:36pm

    Ah...  Phillip.  I did not know that.  You sir, are a musicologist.

  • Phill Hill Charlie July 4, 2012 at 3:45pm

    Many thanks Uncle John for that nice song....legendary Leiber and Stoller wrote that marvelous tune and many others i love, like "Hound Dog"......°<[:-) [---]==={...

  • Uncle John July 3, 2012 at 7:38pm

    Very good, Delvero and Ms D!

  • Delvero July 3, 2012 at 7:18pm

    Well Uncle John and Aunt Linda, hope you can find room for a couple of distant relatives from Detroit there at the festival this year! Planning on making the trek this year if all goes! Hope too see you then!!

  • Uncle John July 3, 2012 at 1:13pm

    Thanks, Kieth.   Cool (scary cool) photo RTZ!

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