Everybody from a small place learns early to make the joke about it before somebody else can. You get good at the joke. What you stop noticing is that it costs you something every single time you tell it.
Willi Carlisle does the opposite standing up: Ozark folk songs, an accordion, and poems recited straight out between numbers with no apology at all for the accent they arrive in. It only lands in a room small enough to hear him breathe, which is precisely what Soda Bar is, a converted bar out on El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights with a back room and a ceiling you could reach up and touch.
A week out from Christmas, when the whole county is standing in somebody's kitchen being pleasant for hours. Skip yours.
This one goes to the person who still says back home and means one specific road.
Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd. Doors seven, Friday the 18th.
Everybody from a small place learns early to make the joke about it before somebody else can. You get good at the joke. What you stop noticing is that it costs you something every single time you tell it.
Willi Carlisle does the opposite standing up: Ozark folk songs, an accordion, and poems recited straight out between numbers with no apology at all for the accent they arrive in. It only lands in a room small enough to hear him breathe, which is precisely what Soda Bar is, a converted bar out on El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights with a back room and a ceiling you could reach up and touch.
A week out from Christmas, when the whole county is standing in somebody's kitchen being pleasant for hours. Skip yours.
This one goes to the person who still says back home and means one specific road.
Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd. Doors seven, Friday the 18th.
Everybody from a small place learns early to make the joke about it before somebody else can. You get good at the joke. What you stop noticing is that it costs you something every single time you tell it.
Willi Carlisle does the opposite standing up: Ozark folk songs, an accordion, and poems recited straight out between numbers with no apology at all for the accent they arrive in. It only lands in a room small enough to hear him breathe, which is precisely what Soda Bar is, a converted bar out on El Cajon Boulevard in City Heights with a back room and a ceiling you could reach up and touch.
A week out from Christmas, when the whole county is standing in somebody's kitchen being pleasant for hours. Skip yours.
This one goes to the person who still says back home and means one specific road.
Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd. Doors seven, Friday the 18th.