Anybody hoping to have a fancy fried sandwich anytime soon is out of luck: Birmingham Weekly got word late Sunday night that the Burly Earl has closed its doors for good. The decades-old dive bar has been under new ownership for the last several months, but their efforts to reinvent the place unfortunately didn’t pan out. The new guys had put a lot of effort into booking live music: Saturday, July 26, would have brought the bar’s biggest show in a decade, with erstwhile Harlem sidewalk fixtures Satan and Adam playing their modern blues there.
The goodly members of the Magic City Blues Society had helped put the gig together in the first place; now they’ve saved the day. A Bessemer bluesman named Mr. Gip put the word out to the MCBS that, failing all else, the duo could play a private show at his house. For more details about the Satan and Adam show, you can contact the Magic City Blues Society by calling (205) 215-0616. The video below comes from KudzuRunner’s YouTube channel and shows the guys on stage at a Mississippi juke joint earlier this year.
Meanwhile, tonight is the debut of the Tuesday night confessional at Greencup Books, Birmingham’s only not-for-profit, volunteer-run bookstore. Trust me on this: If you go, you’ll feel a lot better.
