RL Boyce Hill Country Backyard Blues Party (April 10, 2015)

Let's see ...

A backyard outside Como, Mississippi? ... check

RL Boyce? ... check

Little Joe Ayers? ... check

Carlos Elliot, Jr. & The Cornlickers? ... check

A stack of tractor tires to set on fire? ... check

Yup, it's a hill country backyard blues party all right!

RL's are legendary.

This post is a photographic tour of one held on held April 10, 2015,on a piece of land owned by R.L. nephew, June Hardin.

You can read about it here in Part One, "Party of the Third Part": https://www.stevelikens.me/post/r-l-boyce-s-north-and-south-american-adventures-with-carlos-elliot-and-the-cornlickers

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RL shaking hands with Carlos Elliot (Dale Wise in background)

Dale Wise of The Cornlickers

Carlos and RL

June Hardin (R.L.'s nephew), R.L., Richard Malcolm, J.D. Sipe

R.L.'s nephews June and Michael Hardin, R.L., J.D. Sipe

R.L.

R.L.'s Delta King flanked by Bobby Gentilo's Resonator and Gretsch

Tony Ryder, Carlos Elliot, J.D. Sipe, Little Joe Ayers

Little Joe Ayers, Bobby Gentilo

Carlos Elliot, Little Joe Ayers

Little Joe Ayers (R.L. - back right)

Bobby Gentilo

Tamara Jackiw (manager for Tail Dragger Jones)

Carlos Elliot, R.L., Tony Ryder

Cory Likens (back left) Bobby Gentilo, R.L., Carlos Elliot, Willie "William the Shaker" Miles (foreground), Dale Wise

Carlos Elliot, R.L., Tony Ryder

front: Robert Boyce (R.L.'s nephew), June Hardin (R.L.'s nephew), Unknown; back: Rodney Hardin (hidden), Darrell Burton, Jessie Ramsey

Cory Likens

Aiysha Sipe and her father, J.D. Sipe

Little Joe Ayers, Carlos Elliot

R.L.

R.L.

Little Joe Ayers, Dale Wise. Little Joe on Dale: "I like that drummer. He's back there correcting my mistakes two beats before I make them!"

R.L., Little Joe Ayers, Carlos Elliot

Carlos Elliot, R.L.

Little Joe Ayers

Little Joe Ayers, Tony Ryder, Bobby Gentilo

R.L., Carlos Elliot

Little Joe Ayers, Tony Ryder, Bobby Gentilo

R.L.

Carlos Elliot

Dale Wise

R.L. Boyce with Carlos Elliot and The Cornlickers

Carlos Elliot, Little Joe Ayers, Bobby Gentilo

Dale Wise

Thanks for stopping by.

~ Steve

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photos © 2015 Steve W. Likens, unless otherwsie stated