Spooky Blues Research Paper

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Sexy witches, exotic femme fatals, ghosts and goblins of all shapes will be shaking it up at the North Fork Grange Hall on the spookiest night of the year when Bad Billy Walls and the Trinity Blues Shakers take the stage for one of the most awesome Halloween dance parties in the county. The grange hall will be transformed into a spooky fun house for this special celebration. The band will be playing some funky blues for all of us to dance well into the witching hour.

I was sure after hearing this band rehearse that the Bad in Billy Walls name was due to the fact that he can burn up his guitar until you can see the smoke rising but he insists that this moniker is derived from his terrible behavior as a younger man. He assured me that now

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