Tonight we took a cab down to the East Village and ate at a nice little place called the Life Cafe right at the corner of Tompkins Square Park. After that we went next door to Lakeside Lounge for Happy Hour which is simply buy one drink, get one free, any drink until eight o'clock. This is a tiny bar with two sides, one side for the bar and the other for the band. Each room is only about twenty feet square. They have a jukebox that seems to have the same music as the one at Harry's Country Club in the River Market. In addition to cheap drinks and the music their only other attractions are an old photo booth and a table version of the old Pac-Man game.
We got there just in time to snag the last two seats out of about twenty-five seats total-this place is really small-there were a few seats in front of us and few behind us. That was it. We were treated to a little over an hour of Mary Lee's Corvette, Mary Lee Kortes with her band, electric guitar, small drum kit, and accordion. Toni was not familiar with their music but she took right to it. Mary Lee's set was over by 8:30 and her husband, noted musician/producer Eric Ambel (he was the guitarist in Steve Earles band for awhile) was going on next but not until 11:00 and we knew we couldn't hang on that long and grabbed another cab and headed back to the hotel.
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