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"Like Cowboy Junkies meets the B-52's"
     -Joan Pez,
Starry Plough    

NEXT Cowboy Lounge: Friday, January 23, 2015
   Potluck and Jam 6 PM, Music 7 PM
   at Bonita Hollow in North Berkeley.
   Drop us a line for directions to Bonita Hollow

Wendy Rule will do a set with Tim, I'll also do a set with Laramie Crocker and his Universal Fun Machine , and we'll see where it goes from there. Acoustic jamming will be the order of the night.


Thanks to everyone who came for my Birthday Cowboy Loung, Saturday, Dec 13, 2014
Laramie's 50th Birthday Jam. Come on down and join us in the jam. I'll also do a set with Laramie Crocker and his Universal Fun Machine Laramie Crocker, Wendi Olson, Eve Graham, Barbara Griesau, Richard Berman

Thanks to everone who came to Cowboy Lounge, Saturday, April 13, 2013
Three bands, with lots of jamming in between:









Thanks to everyone who attended and played at Cowboy Lounge 2013.02.23,
   at Bonita Hollow in North Berkeley.
Two bands, followed by a jam session:

#1: Laramie Crocker and his Universal Fun Machine (Laramie, Wendi Olson, Adam Chew, Richard Berman, Ralph Granich)

#2: Wendy Rule (with Timothy Van Diest)
Wendy Rule [photo]is a singer from Australia whose songs invoke magic. She'll be gracing Cowboy Lounge as part of her yearly tour of the U.S. We're delighted to have her headline. We saw her play a fab show in the village in New York and fell for the magic. She is a force onstage and has the kind of voice that grabs you and won't let go.

Thanks to everyone who attended and played at Cowboy Lounge 2012.12.08, photos and blog here: Audible Sky :: Happiness: my 2012 birthday bash!

Many of the players from Cowboy Lounge were involved in the May 3 and May 19 East Bay production of Redemption, the acid-gospel tarot opera. Thanks to all who participated and to all who came out to watch this beautiful community opera spring to life!

Thanks to everyone who came to: Cowboy Lounge: January 20, 2012,
   Potluck 7 PM, Music 8 PM
   at Bonita Hollow in North Berkeley.
   Drop us a line for directions to Bonita Hollow

12.09.2011 Post-Party Update
Thanks to everyone who came out to my birthday bash concert. The level of musicianship was stellar and the groove just went on all night long with a short break at 5AM to watch the total eclipse of the moon. We had three bands: Me, Wend Elsen, Phil, Richard Berman, and Rael Razor opened, then Beatworm (Richard, Rael, and Paul Turner) plus a few sit-ins and dancers, then Wendi and I joined the crew now called Basic Beat but with some drummer swaps (Sam Weinstein, Naomi Kamiya, Greg Shell, plus Rael and Ralph Granich doing drum duty). Lots of great players joined us and sat in, and kept it going with an all-night jam, and a grand time was had by all.

I am getting pretty stoked about the tunes coming together for our Acid Gospel Tarot Opera, Redemption. The songs sounded great with so many people playing and singing. Check out the studio versions and watch for more news about our full staging of the opera in April 2012.

If you were there--you know it was a musical night to remember. If you weren't, well, come join us in January at Bonita Hollow for the next Cowboy Lounge.
  --Laramie

A little history.... For my Birthday in December 2009, we hosted an all-night jam at our art compound, Bonita Hollow, as a way of getting back into the groove Wendi and I had going with LiveAndUnplugged.org. Good friends showed up and we jammed all night, doing a mix of my original tunes, and country, jazz, and blues songs.

Soon we were doing it weekly, then twice weekly, then performing as the band Cowboy Lounge throughout 2010, with members Laramie Crocker, Wendi Olson, Sam Weinstein, Naomi Kamiya, Richard Berman, Nick Silva, Greg Shell, Coolius, and Seldom-Seen Phil Stokes.

We continue to host Cowboy Lounge jams at Bonita Hollow, so grab your axe, your dancing shoes, your best girl or guy, and come on down! Potluck at 7 PM, Music at 8 PM.

-- Laramie Crocker