The guitar showed scars from his pinkie ring.
Ring must have meant something special and he must have strummed down on that battle axe thousands of times.
The hard case in the corner of the pallet stage had a sticker from a bar in Belleville, Ontario. Looked like The Roost but she wasn't sure because another sticker from a pinball arcade in Tennessee crossed the sticker.
She was kinda drunk and her eyesight was going anyway so the stickers were hard to read. This little barn in Michigan didn't have stickers but it had shirts and hats.
The musician was wearing an old baseball hat that looked like it had always been dirty, battered like it was sewn in a tornado in a trailer park.
He was wearing a button up shirt and looked like he always wore button up shirts.
He spoke clearly when he announced a Willie Nelson song they all knew and he mumbled when he announced that he would play an original.
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