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Good Time Charlie Really Has Got The Blues!

Post author By Martin
Post date April 19, 2021
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Well that was a heap of fun. The TinMen and The Geezers put on a great show at Charles Melton Wines and the day was a cracker.

The food and wine were fantastic and the company was in excellent form.

Below you’ll find the recordings of the songs played by The TinMen – Set One in Porch Sittin’ mode and Set Two in Stand And Deliver setting.

Then, we have the inimitable Geezers, without whom none of this would have been possible.

The TinMen’s next gig:

17/6/21 – The Gumbo Room at The Governor Hindmarsh – 8:00 pm – 9:45 pm

Please share with your friends and if you have photos you’d like to share you can send them to us or post them to the TinMen facebook page. Hope we see you at a gig soon.

The TinMen: Set 1 – Porch Sittin’

St James Infirmary

The Locomotion

Stormy Monday Blues

Willie And The Hand Jive

I’m Leaving

Last Of My Kind

Keep It To Yourself

My Babe

All This Time On My Hands

The TinMen: Set 2 – Stand and Deliver

Chitlins Con Carne

Knock Me Down

Now I’m The One Crying

Need Your Love So Bad

Take Me To The River

Respect Yourself

Burnin Down

Black Sun

Further Down The Road

Key To The Highway

Don’t Lie To Me

Pride And Joy – with The Geezers

The Geezers: Set 1

Handbags And Gladrags

Crossroads

Softer Ride

Sunny Afternoon

Stuck In The Middle With You

Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me)

Lola

Tumbling Dice

The Geezers: Set 2

Once Bitten, Twice Shy

Hard To Handle

Born Under A Bad Sign

Badge

Rebel, Rebel

Substitute

Day Tripper

Eleanor Rigby

Brown Sugar – Honky Tonk Women

Jumpin’ Jack Flash

I’m A Hog For You Baby

Fortunate Son

Highway To Hell

Down Down

Smoke On The Water

Midnight Rambler – with The TinMen

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Porch Session

Easter Monday was the occasion for a group of friends of The TinMen to congregate and take part in a musical experience followed by a shared barbecue under the clear sunny skies on the Sly’s porch.

There were various combinations of musical groupings and the resulting tunes are gathered on this page for you to enjoy.

Firstly The TinMen presented what will be the essence of our first set at “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues” at Charles Melton Wines on 17/4 at 4:30 pm – as follows:

St James Infirmary

The Locomotion

Stormy Monday Blues

Willie And The Hand Jive

I’m Leaving You

Last Of My Kind

Keep It To Yourself

My Babe

All This Time On My Hands

Then followed a few tunes with The TinMen and guest musicians:

Mixed Up Shook Up Girl

Pride And Joy

Black Sun

Route 66

Chitlins Con Carne

Checkin On My Baby

Hoochie Coochie Man

And finally while the BBQ chefs got to work Dave and his guests kept us entertained with some more sweet tunes:

Fire

Words

To Love Somebody

Who’ll Stop The Rain

Under The Milky Way

Heroes

All in all it was a great time and a good try out for some gentler tunes to kick off an afternoon gig in the Barossa in a couple of weeks. We’d love to hear what you think so please get in touch or share this page with whoever would like to hear it. Thanks.

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Gigs, gigs, gigs!

17/4/21 – Charlie Melton Winery with The Geezers – 4:00 pm – 8:30 pm https://www.charlesmeltonwines.com.au/cellar-door/events

17/6/21 – The Gumbo Room at The Gov – 8:00 pm – 9:45 pm

1/7/21 – SCALA at The Wheaty – $8, doors open 7:00 pm, support act 7:30 pm, The TinMen at 8:40 pm

21/8/21 – The Wheaty with The Western Schism – doors open 7:30 pm first band 8:00 – 8:30 pm second band 9:15 – 10:00 pm

26/8/21 – The Gumbo Room at The Gov – 8:00 pm – 9:45 pm.

Here’s how we’re travelling – featuring the two new originals – see if you can spot them – Haigh’s Chocolates for the first correct entry (family of the band not permitted to enter). Please enjoy.

All This Time On My Hands

St James Infirmary

Stormy Monday Blues

Keep It To Yourself

My Babe

Chitlins Con Carne

Knock Me Down

Just Give Me A Maybe

Burnin Down

Everybody’s Happy Except Me (FOMO Blues)

Need Your Love So Bad

Take Me To The River

Respect Yourself

Black Sun

Further Down The Road

Don’t Lie To Me

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Gig Diary and Bonus Tracks

Post author By Martin
Post date March 19, 2021
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We’re happy to let you know that we have two gigs and you can pencil in either one or both.

Thursday 1/7/21 SCALA at The Wheatsheaf Hotel, George St, Thebarton on Thursday 1/7/21 at 8:40 pm for a SCALA show. Tickets are $8 at the door or prior through SCALA (free entry for SCALA members). Doors open from 7:00 pm first act starts around 7:30 pm.

Also at The Wheaty Saturday 21/8/21 with The Western Schism 8 till 10pm – further details to be announced.

And for the faithful fans here are tracks from our last rehearsal – 6 original and 8 covers – some are in very early stages and others are bedding down into our repertoire.

Burnin Down

FOMO Blues

Chitlins Con Carne

Now I’m The One Cryin

Just Give Me A Maybe

Knock Me Down

Take Me To The River

Respect Yourself

Need Your Love So Bad

Black Sun

Further Down The Road

Don’t Lie To Me

Key To The Highway

Pride And Joy

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A new song to make you smile

Post author By Martin
Post date March 6, 2021
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Dave suggested we write a happy blues song. We had some discussions about the direction. We consulted the anatomy of songs info graphic. “Start and end with guitar”: check. “In between: complaining” – wait a minute! How’re we going to write a blues song about being happy? Putting our best foot forward here’s the result in demo form. As yet unplayed by the band all together but soon to be added to our growing original set. Please enjoy.

Everybody’s Happy (Except Me)

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A couple of Gigs

Firstly we’re playing in The Barossa at Charlie Melton Wines with The Geezers for “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues” on 17/4/21 so there’s that…

And we’re playing at The Wheatsheaf Hotel, George St, Thebarton on Thursday 1/7/21 at 8:40 pm for a SCALA show. Tickets are $8 at the door or prior through SCALA (free entry for SCALA members). Doors open from 7:00 pm first act starts around 7:30 pm.

We’re serving up a helping of blues with a set of idiosyncratic originals all penned by ourselves and inspired by the grind of the suburban Adelaide sprawl.

Here’s a sample of some of the set that we’ll be blacksmithing into artistic renditions before your eyes and ears. Please enjoy!

Just Give Me A Maybe

Knock Me Down

Now I’m The One Cryin

All This Time On My Hands

Black Sun

And as a bonus here’s a classic number that is older than us and probably older than some of our parents too but has stood the test of time

St James Infirmary

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Streaming

In this world we’re going online with all the other fish in the sea. Distrokid can put your artists on all the streaming services for $19.99 per year so we are now learning how to put all this together.

The question is: can a personal WordPress.com account add links to streaming playlists?

And the answer is…. Yes!! Watch this space for links to our music for you to stream.