Blind Buddy Moody at Dave’s Aqua Lounge

What: The Blind Buddy Moody concert

Where: Dave's Aqua Lounge

Must-Do? Says Who? Wade Tatangelo; the ghost of Jimmie Rodgers

Casualties: $12 for beers & whiskey sours

Notable Quotable: "I’d like to dedicate this song to anyone with drinking problems or problems enough to drink.”

“I’ve played everything from churches to honky-tonks,” Buddy told me after the show, “and just about everything in between.”

It’s difficult to pinpoint where Dave’s Aqua Lounge fits on the church-honky continuum. The outside has a Vegas-strip-in-the-seventies feel; the inside’s a double anachronism, like a disco-turned-juke joint. “Southern Comfort Rocks the Blues,” a flickering neon sign proclaimed through the smoke; retro Schlitz ads, guitar shots, and disco-era fake platinum records decked the other walls. We bellied up and ordered drinks—beer for me, whiskey sours for Bri. The crowd was country: except for a few polo shirts here and there it was all denim and leather—workaday shirts and cowboy boots. We washed out the taste of ashtrays with our drinks and tried to figure out who was playing steel guitar on the jukebox.

This article appears in Aug 1-7, 2007.