In the 1980’s Sacco’s in Watertown, MA had a country music open mic, where I’d go in early to get dinner and listen to local singer-songwriters and try out my own stuff. This clip is from 1988…
I have a couple other tapes somewhere – recorded on an Akai
portable tape deck. Sometimes I did the soundboard there (Where I met Paul Terazzo/Kenny Selzer/Brother Cleve – and the standard folks Ed Kunkle, Bucky Bear, the guy
who played pedal steel on a keyboard, Dave Sammarco, Karen Silver…so many others I have forgotten – I even made demo tapes for Mark Shapiro)
This was before the Harvard Square – Black Rose open mics (famous for bumping me to an 11:15 slot) which turned into the Kendall Cafe Open Mic…

Just a couple songs here (not my set which i have)
Up against the wall – Uncle Kunkle and Robert Wheeler playing Ukulele Lady, I think…

For more of this stuff (I’m not in here either- shot slightly before I started – many names are familiar) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFV3QP-Fwlk&list=PLCAD26AFBC62E7C06