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The Dothan City Fest website is "a work in progress" but check it out
http://dothancityfest.com/
Great talkin' to ya this mornin'!
best,
r

Robert----since I wrote that email to Frank, we have changed the line up of the City Fest event. Buddy, Chips and the song writers are going to open the show at 7 PM. This will give them plenty of time to cover the multitude of hits they wrote and produced.

Our band, the Strangers, will come on next, with Wilbur Walton coming up and opening with his great version of "The Right String Baby But The Wrong YoYo". He will also do our James Gang version of "Georgia Pines," which was written by Buddy and John Rainey Adkins. Mitch Goodson and Jimmy Watford with sit in with us as well.

Then the Bopcats will take the stage. David Adkins will sit in with them as well as Paul Hornsby, so their musicianship will be a grand way to round out the evening. Rodney Justo, lead singer for the Candymen and first lead singer for the Atlanta Rhythm Section will join in for a few songs. We'll all pick as long as the audience wants us to, so it should be a heck of an opening for the City Fest event this year.

It should be mentioned that this event is an ALS benefit so everybody is performing free of charge. I had talked to B. J. Thomas, Billy Joe Royal, and the Atlanta Rhythm Section and every one of them agreed to perform free, then the date had to be changed to September 10 and they were all already booked on that date. But they would have been here for us, and that shows what classy guys they are.

Jimmy Dean (The James Gang, B.J. Thomas, Beaverteeth)

CITYFEST FEATURING SONGWRITER'S ROUNDTABLE

AND STARS FROM DOTHANS GREAT MUSICAL PAST

SONGWRITERS ROUNDTABLE IS A ONCE-IN-A-LIFETIME OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR FIVE OF AMERICA'S TOP COMPOSERS AND PRODUCERS

PLAY AND SING THEIR SONGS AND TELL HOW THE SONGS CAME ABOUT.

THE WRITERS AND PRODUCERS ARE BUDDY BUIE AND J.R. COBB, CHIPS MOMAN AND BOBBY EMMONS, AND WAYNE CARSON.

TO INSURE INTIMACY, THE WRITERS WILL SIT ON RISERS IN A SIMI CIRCLE ON THE FLOOR OF THE CIVIC CENTER AND ALTERNATE PLAYING THEIR HITS AND TELLING INSIDE STORIES ABOUT THE MUSIC BUSINESS. QUESTIONS FROM THE AUDIENCE WILL BE ALLOWED.

SOME OF THE HITS THEY WROTE SOME OF THE ARTIST THEY PRODUCED

YOU WERE ALWAYS ON MY MIND--WILLIE NELSON ELVIS PRESLEY

SPOOKY---THE CLASSICS IV AND ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION WILLIE NELSON

LUCKENBACH TEXAS---WAYLON JENNINGS AND WILLIE NELSON ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION

THE LETTER----THE BOXTOPS BILLY JOE ROYAL

DO RIGHT WOMAN DO RIGHT MAN---ARETHA FRANKLIN BJ THOMAS

TRACES OF LOVE----THE CLASSICS IV JOHNNY CASH

SOUL DEEP----THE BOXTOPS NEIL DIAMOND

HEY WON'T YOU PLAY ANOTHER SOMEBODY'S DONE SOMEBODY WRONG SONG----BJ THOMAS

GEORGIA PINES---WILBUR WALTON AND THE JAMES GANG ROY ORBISON

I SEE THE WANT TO IN YOUR EYES------CONWAY TWITTY RINGO STARR

SLIDE OFF THOSE SATIN SHEETS----JOHNNY PAYCHECK JERRY LEE LEWIS

EVERYBODY LOVES A RAIN SONG----BJ THOMAS KRIS KRISTOFFERSON

STORMY---THE CLASSICS IV STILLWATER

THIS TIME----TROY SHONDELL ROGER MILLER

SO INTO YOU---ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION WILBUR WALTON AND THE JAMES GANG

LAST NIGHT---BOOKER -T AND THE MGS THE CANDYMEN

ROCK BOTTOM----WYNONNA

EVERYDAY WITH YOU GIRL---CLASSICS IV

MIGHTY CLOUDS OF JOY----BJ THOMAS

WHO'S JULIE.....MEL TILLIS

WURLITZER PRIZE----WAYLON JENNINGS

DRINKIN' THING-----GARY STEWART

I'M NOT GONNA LET IT BOTHER ME TONIGHT---ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION

SO MUCH LIKE MY DAD---GEORGE STRAIT

IMAGINARY LOVER---ATLANTA RHYTHM SECTION

DARK END OF THE STREET----JAMES CARR

Area musicians featured:

The BopCats

Frank Tanton–Clique, Strawdog, Bogaters

Richard Burke–Legend, Strawdog, Clique

Lamar Miller–Stonecross, Bogaters

Davie Cooley–Impacts, Jazz Penetrators

The Strangers

Larry Coe–The Webs, Clique

Danny Kennedy—The Strangers

Carl Adams–Thunder Chicken, The Capers

Billy Gant–Concrete Bubble, Del Rios, Standing Ovation

Jimmy Dean–The Webs, The James Gang, B. J. Thomas, Beaverteeth

Guest Appearances by:

Wilbur Walton Jr.–The James Gang

David Adkins–B. J. Thomas, Beaverteeth

Rodney Justo–The Candymen, Atlanta Rhythm Section, B. J. Thomas, Beaverteeth

Mitch Goodson–The Capers

Jimmy Watford–The Mustangs

Paul Hornsby–Hour Glass (with Duane and Greg Allman), Elvin Bishop, producer for Charlie Daniels, Marshall Tucker Band, Wet Willie, others.