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Introduction
Featured
Jam Sessions:
Anutt
(D&D Little Branson)
Fremont
Gainesville
(Hoerman Park)
Kissee
Mills
(Johnson Community Building)
Long
Beach
(Mtn. Grove School)
Long
Lane
Manes
(Manes
Music Makers)
Mansfield
McClurg
McDowell
Mountain
View (Weaver's)
Souder
Springfield
(North Town Mall)
Strafford
Wasola
(Stone's)
Related
Events:
Opry's:
Webster Co. Opry
Picnics:
Vanzant Picnic
Fiddle
Competitions and Festivals:
Branson Fiddle Contest, Compton Ridge, and Ozarks
Celebration Festival
Dances:
Ava and Ebenezer
Homecomings:
Horsecreek Church
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Souder
Store Café
Souder, MO
Every Friday Evening
The jam session
was started in 1996 by Dennis and Denise Souder. The
old Souder Store and post office closed in 1992 and some say
the town of Souder almost died. Now the store is a restaurant
and is open Thursday, Friday, and Saturday evenings. At
the Friday jam session, songs accompanied by acoustic instruments
as well as electric guitars and a snare drum are played for
the listeners as they eat. An invited gospel group is
featured on Saturday.
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| The music has a strong 50s and 60s country music
and honky-tonk sound, due in large part to the sounds of the electric
guitars and drum. Songs such as Folsom Prison Blues, Okie
from Muskogee, Dang Me, and Roll In My Sweet Baby's Arms are featured. I
was told, however, that on some Friday evenings old-time fiddle
music and older songs are featured.
Directions from Springfield: drive east on US-60 for 44 miles;
drive south on MO-5 for 30 miles; drive east on MO-95 for 6 miles;
turn left onto CR-139 [See
map]. Photographs are from July 7, 2000. |
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The musicians, some of whom have never played with
the each other before, rotate around the circle so everyone has
a chance to sing. |
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The restaurant seats about a hundred comfortably,
and the place is often full. Listeners enjoy eating burgers,
catfish, shrimp, and other menu choices. |
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