[southernfriedcj]

Here's my review of the Chili Cookoff: It was hot and humid, normal October temp would have been nice. The chili was average this year, it seems that most of the booths were offering a bland product, I think this may be for mass appeal. There were a couple of very good chilis offered, but there were none in the excellent range, IMHO. I think my basic chili would beat any I tasted yesterday, hands down(I only tasted about 50% of the availible chili before I was full). I only tried one cornbread sample, and it was outstanding! It was full of cheese, peppers, and who know what else. Several booths had Brunswick Stew samples, I usually stay away, I did try one and was dissappointed(Old Hickory House has the only stew I care for).
On to the music. A local band, Legends, opened the show. If you like classic rock cover material, played so well it sounded like a CD of the original recordings, this is your band. They played the Allman Brothers, Cream, and SRV as good as the AB, Cream and SRV. They were the best cover band I've ever seen.
Confederate Railroad put on a very good show also(I never knew all those tunes were CR tunes, I thought half of 'em were Kentucy Headhunter songs). They also mixed in some Waylon Jennings and David Allen Coe. The frontman was hilarious, he should have a standup rouitine. They played a few new tunes, including one with the hook "livin' next door to white trash with money", which killed me because I know alot of "wtwm".
Rick Derringer played, but his voice wasn't great. He was mostly just loud.
We stayed 3/4 of the way through Edgar Winter's set, it was good, and EW is a hell of a musician.
All in all, a goodtime was had, but there seemed to be more hardcore rednecks than usual. Maybe the threat of rain kept the more moderate rednecks home, so we had a super concentration of the 1%.