Johnny Cash's Tennessee 3

Upon leaving Wall Street I realized that I had pretty much missed both AESOP and IAMX which was really disappointing, so I regrouped w/ my assistant Amber and relieved her of her duties for the night since I was now going to be bouncing back and fourth between there and the Lodge backlot. 

So I headed back down the alley way between the Lodge and Room 39 for the gazillionth time and happened upon Johnny Cash’s Tennessee 3.  The band backed Johnny Cash for 40 years and the guitar player Bob Wotton, since Cash’s death, has stepped up to fill his shoes.  It’s actually rather freaky how much he sounds like Cash and if you didn’t know any better you’d think you were watching and hearing the real thing.  Evidently that’s part of the reason he got the gig with Cash back in 1968.

He told stories in between songs about things Johnny and the band did on the road and how playing at 12:40 in the morning was way past his bed time even though they’d been trying to get to Florida for quite some time.  The fans were all liquored up and a few gentlemen kindly offered up their spot and stepped aside so that I could get a few decent photos, but some others were a little bit scary and I decided for the safety of my camera I’d go back to Wall Street to check out the last band of the night, American Bang.