The Owl Acoustic Lounge was packed , Aug. 13 for Ali Stuart’s birthday and music from the Coal Creek Boys and the Necessities.
The Coal Creek Boys, featuring her singing background 
vocals, showed touring has done them a world of good.
They played an entertaining set of upbeat, uptempo country, rock music.
And while I couldn’t understand lead singer John Paul Smith’s lyrics, I could appreciate his guitar picking.
Guitarist Devin Gergel and bassist Dino Scavo were locked in with drummer Dustin Gergel and put on a show which had a good sized crowd moving amongst their chattering.
They had a handful of girls trying to do a line dance in front of the stage near the end of their set, which wound down with a cover of the Marshall Tucker Band’s southern rock classic “Can’t You See.”
I wasn’t able to stay for the Necessities’ set which closed the night and I missed Johnny Rains’ opening set.
