Thursday night at the Beachland Ballroom was one of the most fun nights you could have had for a $17.00 cover charge. The ever entertaining Paul Thorn and his band were performing their brand of Southern Style Rock. Paul mixes comedy with sex and religion in a form that proves to be wildly entertaining. He has a slow country drawl and an innocence behind his devilishness. My Honey Bunny feels he is easy on the eyes.
The band came out on stage promptly at 9:00 decked out in Sokolowski University Inn Tee Shirts. Paul explained how they heard that Mike Sokolowski was a huge fan and so they decided to eat at his establishment. They were grateful for the hospitality he offered and the clean shirts. The band had not been to the laundry mat for a few days and had no clean clothes, so they were ecstatic to have clean shirts to wear.
They opened with one of my favorite songs "A Long Way From Tupelo". The song is about his car breaking down on a back country road where he has a sexual encounter with a girl who happens to live in the house where he breaks down. When he gets home to his wife and she asks where have you been his only response is A long way form Tupelo.
At one point Paul tells the men in the audience, "tonight when you have your woman in your arms and you lean in and give her a kiss and she is kissing you back more passionately than ever before that is because she is thinking of me."
Some of the other highlights of the evening I'm Still Here,What Have You Done To Lift Somebody Up,Starvin For Your Kisses, When The Long Road Ends, 800 Pound Jesus, Temporarily Forever Mine, Hammer and Nail and the classic Joanie The Jehovah Witness Stripper.
The Crowd was packed with celebrities. Mike Sokolowski who missed the plug for his restaurant, Uncle Ronny the drummer for Lude McDude was very impressed with the guitar playing of Bill Hinds. Wayne the harp player for the Earls and his wife
said " I have never seen Paul before, but I am sure I will be back to see him again." Greg Ceilec well known author and concert critic was on hand but for enjoyment not critiquing.
Paul announced to the crowd that he learned this next bit form his Dad who was a Southern Baptist Preacher " If you don't go into the back and buy one of my CD's you will go to hell." Paul does like the women, he came down off of the stage to dance with the women who had been dancing in front of the stage all night. He then walked through the crowd shaking hands and pushed right past me to get a kiss from my Honey Bunny. I think he was kind of sweet on her. Who can blame him. After the show he was laughing and joking with the crowd while he signed autographs. What a fun night in double wide paradise.
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