UPDATE: DJ Easy Ed emails this: I will be the DJ, and I wanted to clarify that the music program will be one of classic country and honky tonk, mostly from the 50s and early 60s. I don't play any modern/current country music whatsoever--can't stand the stuff.
My email this morning brought a press release for a country night at the South End hotspot the Beehive, underneath the BCA. "The Beehive’s Honky-Tonk Hoedown on Wednesday, September 10, 2008 beginning at 5:30pm! The evening is a collaborative effort by both The Beehive, and the Boston-based country music label Cow Island Music (Yes, we have a country label in Boston!) The Beehive will get a themed makeover of music and fare including performances by Cow Island Music artists Preacher Jack kicking off the evening’s festivities at 8:00pm, followed by the Massachusetts-based country sensation Girl Howdy at 9:30PM. Rounding out the evening between sets and until the cows come home will be DJ Easy Ed spinning country hits so y’all can line dance your achy-breaky hearts out."
It all sounds good, until that ancient reference to Billy Ray Cyrus' annoying 1992 hit - c'mon, dudes, that was 16 years ago. Cyrus is now a Disney Channel star, and there must be lots more current country jokes you could make. The catfish nuggets, ribs and wings sound good, too, although I don't think many downhome folks make "Pan-fried Rocky Mountain Trout with Hazelnut brown butter." It's the hazelnuts that screw that up.
The real problem here though is with the drink specials that pour peach liquor and Mumm's into Basil Hayden Bourbon, and defile Baker's Bourbon with Godiva Chocolate Liquor. No one I ever want to know would do such a thing, and a bartender making either of those drinks in an actual honky tonk would find himself airborne out the door, and good riddance.
If you want to go to this thing anyway, call 617-423-0069. But don't tell anyone I sent you.
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