Anybody hoping to have a fancy fried sandwich anytime soon is out of luck: Birmingham Weekly got word late Sunday night that the Burly Earl has closed its doors for good. The decades-old dive bar has been under new ownership for the last several months, but their efforts to reinvent the place unfortunately didn’t pan out. The new guys had put a lot of effort into booking live music: Saturday, July 26, would have brought the bar’s biggest show in a decade, with erstwhile Harlem sidewalk fixtures Satan and Adam playing their modern blues there.
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The goodly members of the Magic City Blues Society had helped put the gig together in the first place; now they’ve saved the day. A Bessemer bluesman named Mr. Gip put the word out to the MCBS that, failing all else, the duo could play a private show at his house. For more details about the Satan and Adam show, you can contact the Magic City Blues Society by calling (205) 215-0616. The video below comes from KudzuRunner’s YouTube channel and shows the guys on stage at a Mississippi juke joint earlier this year.
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Meanwhile, tonight is the debut of the Tuesday night confessional at Greencup Books, Birmingham’s only not-for-profit, volunteer-run bookstore. Trust me on this: If you go, you’ll feel a lot better.
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