John Egan started the show all by his lonesome with his amplified steel resonator and a stomp box. He kicked it off with John Lee Hooker Style vocals on a song about meeting Jesus on Sunset Blvd (which happens more often than you might think, Google it). Egan continued wooing the small audience with Houston bluesman Lightning Hopkins’ song “Mojo Hand”.

The sound is amazing on the “Green” to have music put out by one man reach every corner of the listening area with the stomp box beat. John continued his blues show with a signature performance of “John the Revelator” and Dylan’s “Maggie’s Farm”.

The last song of John’s performance included the line “Like a feather from an angel’s wing, looking for a place to fall” and if anyone knows more about that tune, please let me know, because it was drop-dead gorgeous. John Egan seems to be spending his Monday nights at the Big Easy for the next few weeks anyway and I’ll be getting by there for a Monday show, soon, my own self.

Hadden Sayers took the stage with his four piece band and raised the stakes from the impressive solo performance by Egan to a full on blues band sound. He started the set with the double entendre “Don’t Take Your Love (Out on Me)” from his newest recording, “Rolling Soul”. Sayers grew up in Texas and went to school here, but moved to Ohio a few years ago, when his wife got a lucrative position with a company there. His current band was formed in Ohio, but the Gulf Coast Blues sound still has a prominent position in his repertoire.

Sayers reaffirmed his Texas citizenship with tunes like “Take Me Back to Texas”. He played “Down and Out of my Mind” from his live performance recording at the old Satellite Lounge. Sayers took us through a Winwood-like meandering jazz/blues fusion journey on “Tripping Down to Mexico” that featured a flute solo by bassist Mark Frye and an amazing piano solo by Dangerous Dave DeWitt.

Hadden moved on through the philosophical “Want What You Have” to perform the Ruthie Foster standard, “Lay Down Your Worries”. When Sayers is not touring or recording with his own band, he is the lead guitar player for Texas treasure, Ruthie Foster.

The band went on, covering Sam Cooke’s “Wonderful World” and pushing a smooth blues progression out on “I’m going Back to the Blues”. The evening ended with the band playing the folksy “Sweet Texas Girls” leading into “Hippie Getaway”.

Hadden Sayers has put together an amazing blues performance band. He, himself, reminds me often of Peter Green and just as often of Lowell George. For the most part, though, he reminds me of Hadden Sayers. Get out and see some live music. Every night that you miss, is a little bit of history that has slipped away.