BRANSON MO NEWS: The music is already cooking when Dave Egr makes his way down the stairs on High Street.Where the folding chairs are set in a circle.And an echo of Patsy Cline fills the basement of CGS Music, Elaine Behrends singing “Walkin’ After Midnight” while her fellow musicians back her up.
A bevy of acoustic guitars, and a lone mandolin. Larry Bady with a stand-up bass. Scott Smetter and his harmonica.Guys in ball caps and visors, fedoras and cowboy hats, tennis shoes and cowboy boots. Two women, both with angel voices, one holding a flute. Old guys and younger guys. Eighty-three-year-old Roger Pittard strumming his ‘72 Gibson.They go around the circle announcing tunes. “Rolling in my Sweet Baby’s Arms” and “The Lighthouse” and “Wagon Wheel” in the key of G.Dave Egr is wearing a low-brimmed hat and a black jacket, a red bandanna sticking out of his back pocket.He plays his guitar standing up.When he was a kid, his folks wanted him to learn the accordion, but he wanted to play country songs.“Like the cowboys,” says the 70-year-old who grew up in Brainard.They call themselves Three Chords and a Cloud of Dust, 17 …
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