Date Night with the Willies: Wilderado

 

We bought tickets for Wilderado at Ozark Music Hall (formerly JJs Live) in Fayetteville, and then found out Saumi’s had tickets too so the “Wilber’s” formed a date night and Joe and Mare had extra tickets so they brought the Frakes. We talked with Joe and Mary about how weird it was to not have ANY of our teen/YA children with us. Aaron and I really can’t remember the last time we only bought two tickets to a concert…years probably! We honestly missed Reese and Quincy terribly, live music is just a thing we love doing together. We had such a great night with Nate and Ali and the Saumi’s though. Wood fired pizza and lots of political conversation about a couple recent presidential addresses that I mostly just listened to. GREAT music. An opening bad that was too hard forgetting our taste, but hilariously entertaining.  These guys, Illiterate light, are kind of head bangs rockers by night. Just two dudes with crazy eyes by night and non profit farmers by day. Joe and Mary met them after the show. I call this photo “farmers who rock meeting farmers who ROCK! 🤘🏻” 

The sweatshirt Mary bought at the swag counter was a one of its kind (this was the first show on the tour) and was hand embroidered by Tyler Wimpee the lead guitarist in the band. We hung around and met him after the show. Very cool! 

I love a tiny concert venue. Nothing beats being right up under the stage hearing some of your favorite songs played live. Total happy place and innately takes me to sitting around the kitchen doing a puzzle with my children and their little voices singing “In Between” and “Tomorrow” or cruising around in summer with a car full of teenagers, windows down blasting “Surefire”.  Just a great little band from Tulsa. Their slogan is, “Wilderado is an OK band”.