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Hooligans

Fri/Sat--BIG DADDY D & THE DYNAMITES--8:30-12:30-Back with new tunes& More Funk 

Bird Cage

Fri.&Sat.-----The Groove Defenders...... Hot Rockin Oldies

SUN--The Lab Rats..3:00-7:00... Very Good Uncovered Covers   

Lyzzards

Sat--- Shawn Johnson & the Foundation............They were Voted AZ's Best Jam Band in 2005 /Best Acoustic Act in 2006.

Jersey Lily

Fri/Sat-- Off The Record..8-midnight--Classic Rock 

Pinion pines

Saturday---Dr.Tim and "Love Wrench afternoons 3-7...Michael Wade, guitar & vocals Chris Ozuna, drums. Rick Cucuzza, Chapman stick.

Everything from Jazz fusion, blues and rock and roll from every decade.    

Sundances

Sunday nights---Impact! is the host band for the jam from 8-midnight. We cater to all musical genre, not just the blues, and encourage all levels of musicianship to come and play.    

It's the birthday of country songwriter and singer Merle Haggard, born in Bakersfield, California (1937). His parents were Dust Bowl migrants from Oklahoma, and Haggard grew up in a house that had been converted from a railroad boxcar by his father. He grew up poor and restless, in and out of reform schools. He stole cars, wrote bad checks, and became a petty thief.

He eventually got caught trying to burglarize a roadhouse, and he spent 27 months in San Quentin prison, where he joined the prison's country music band. The first song he wrote, while he was still on parole, was "Branded Man," about the life of an ex-con.