I can’t tell you the first time I met Miss Shirley Williams, longtime bartender at the Lamplighter Lounge. Chances are, I was still a teenager, and she bounced my ass for not having a legal i.d.
What I can tell you is this: Through my ever-evolving taste in music and men, Miss Shirley has been one of the few constants in my post-high school life.
She was around when I first became a regular at the Lamplighter in the early 1990s (when I was legal) and I’d just discovered the Country Rockers. I’d come in to talk country music with Alex Chilton and CR guitarist Ron Easley, who, with Dan Rose, shot scenes for this incredible video at the Lamp, way back in ’92.
