Johnny Rivers, Mari & the band

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Rick Jackson, Al Ortiz, JR, Mari & Cactus Moser

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Special Thanks!

First of all, I would like to thank all the guys: Charlie, Cactus, Al, Johnny… You were amazing! I had a great time together with you. The shows were wonderful; the audience was excited, singing almost all the songs with you. I hope you had a great time here in Brazil.

I sang until I was almost voiceless in both shows. The ones in Sao Paulo were wonderful as they could be. I know the other ones were good too but I could go only to Sao Paulo, so they were even more relevant to me. The first song was ‘Midnight Special’ then ‘Rooster Blues’ and one of my favorite songs, ‘Down at the House of Blues’.

It was great to see all the audience singing that all and only hits ‘Seventh Son’, ‘The Snake’, ‘Mountain of Love / Lawdy Miss Clawdy’ and ‘Summer Rain’. Brazilian fans just love such hits from 60s.

Then we had a great surprise, Johnny sang his version of ‘House of the Rising Sun’ and ‘I put a spell on you’. Two new hits were presented as well, ‘Beautiful World’ and ‘The American Dream’.

After that, we came back in time and sang great hits from 60s and 70s such as ‘Willie and the Hand Jive’, ‘Poor Side of Town’, ‘Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu’, ‘Baby, I need your lovin'’ (all the audience sang with them), ‘Memphis’ and ‘It's too late’.

After all these songs, JR thanked the audience and said goodbye. But nobody would let him go until he sings two of his greatest hits here. So, JR came back to stage and played ‘Do you wanna dance?’, ‘Maybelline’ and ‘Secret Agent Man’.

All the audience stood up to applaud Johnny. They applauded really hard!

I also need to thank JR for being so kind with me. Thanks for the T-shirt you gave me and thank you so much for mentioning my name on stage. Thanks for all these photos that are now here on my Blog.

 

I hope to see you back soon!