Fabulous live music, Earl’s slow-cooked BBQ, Carrie Jean Gilliam’s down-home trimmin’s, dancin’, and good times. Big Easy Social & Pleasure Club, 5731 Kirby Drive (south of Bissonnet, between Firestone and Domino’s Pizza). A measly $5 cover.

The Earl Gilliam Blues Revue features Texas Blues piano/organ legend Earl Gilliam (b. 1930) with Albert King Award winning guitarist Jonn Richardson and veteran Blues guitarist I.J. Gosey (b. 1937). For over 60 years, Earl has played out front with his own band and with such Blues greats as Sam Lightnin’ Hopkins, Joe “Guitar” Hughes, Esther Phillips, Johnny “Clyde” Copeland, Albert Collins, Clarence “Gatemouth” Brown, ”Big Mama” Thornton, Clifton Chenier, and T-Bone Walker, to name only a few. In 1955, Earl was only one of two Black artists to record on Sarg Records (Willie Nelson and Doug Sahm’s first label). I.J. comes with his own Blues pedigree, having been a session player for the historic Duke-Peacock Records in Houston back in the 50’s and 60’s. Backed by the amazing rhythm section of Fred Arceneaux and Jackie Gray, the band still smokes the house with their jazzy Blues riffs, Gulf Coast Shuffles and Texas Swing with a little classic R&B and Zydeco thrown into the mix.