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Trigger Hippy ft Audley Freed, Steve Gorman, Nick Govrik, Jackie Greene, and Joan Osborne.

Presented by The Basement at The Basement

July 30, 2011

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Trigger Happy consists of Audley Freed, Steve Gorman, Nick Govrik, Jackie Greene, and Joan Osborne.

The first seed for Trigger Hippy was planted a few years ago when Nick, Audley, and I started playing the Family Wash in Nashville as “Hey Hey Hey”. For all of you about to say, “oh yeah, I saw them and they were great”…..stop right there. No, you didn’t. We knew just about everyone who ever turned up.

(And while we’re on the subject, if you did in fact make a show, you should have hit the tip hat harder, but that’s another matter altogether. )

Anyway, we had a blast every time we played and it hit the three of us that we were onto a cool vibe. We decided to continue whenever our schedules would allow, which meant about once every 18 months as it turned out. Sometimes it sucks to be busy.

Along the way, I bumped into Jimmy Herring and we had one of those standard “we should get together and do something” talks. That led to Jimmy jamming with the three of us and deciding to play a gig. We booked one in Macon, Ga. a couple of years ago, calling it Trigger Hippy for the first time, and yet again had a great time playing together. Jimmy’s schedule made that a glorious one off gig – but the three of us kept thinking about continuing this thing. It seemed we were just a singer away from being something to reckon with. “Just” being a huge word when thinking of singers, of course.

Joan Osborne sprung to our collective minds and it just took a quick phone call to determine that she was nuts enough to consider a trip to Nashville to get together and see what would happen. What happened turned out to be really exciting – so much so that we immediately then set our collective minds on finding the final piece – another guitarist who could play keys as well.

That in turn led to Jackie Greene – another quick phone call led to another quick trip to Nashville and suddenly we had ourselves the band…..complete with yet another great singer. Funny how things work out. Since that time, we’ve been working on tunes and having a real good time.

So, again, we couldn’t be more excited to get these shows going – and thanks for tuning in.