There is a large restaurant called Calloways in Staffordville which is between Tuckerton, NJ and Manahawkin, NJ on Rt. 9 that will be starting up country dancing on Friday nights. This restaurant is about 40 min. from EHT.Yeehaw! :)
Jan. 9th
Jan. 16th
Feb. 20th
Feb. 27th
Mar. 5th
As of right now, Ken & Debbie will be holding the dances posted. Joe & Mary will take over after that. Plus, there is no charge.
Shuffle, Triple Two-Step, Texas Shuffle, Double Two-Step
Country Western Line Dancing Playlist: 25 Shuffle Songs
We had a 3am wake up to be at the airport by 6 & arrived in Nashville at 9:30 with the time change. Check in, Coffee, nap in that order lol!
In the process of getting coffee, we interrupted a Christmas play at Dunn Bros. It was both cozy & charming through we were afraid to interrupt the play to order coffee. We went back a couple days later and mid-day, the doors were locked but the owner came &unlocked the door to let us in & caffeine us up... he remembered us from the other day when we interrupted the play. Nice place. They had some really nice artwork hanging as well!
Our first night in Nashville, we hit up the Big River Brewery on 2nd & Broadway, then walked down to the Wildhorse for some line dancing. $8 cover charge, not too crowded but the band LoCash Cowboys were fantastic! They tore it up dancing... he broke into applejacks! Towards the end of the show, they even broke out some old-school early 90's hip-hop. I loved it. They announced that they are playing Times Square aired on Fox New Years Eve. My only bone to pick was with the lack of dancing. There really wasn't much dancing at all. The instructor taught a very simple line dance I didn't get up to learn to Trace Adkin's Badonkadonk *(not Badonkadonk), no couples dances or even two-step. A bunch of drunk people got out to do the electric slide... There was one lone dancer off to the side who takes his dancing perhaps more seriously than I do. I got out with him a couple times but that is a big place for only 2 line dancers to be boppin' around.
Friday we took on the town after a full night of sleep. We went to 417 Union for breakfast. It was the only place we didn't send the coffee back for breakfast. The caramel banana pancakes were quite tasty too!
We went down to Broadway and hit up the gift shops. I saw a boot store that said buy 1 get 2 free. I was so excited until I saw the soles on most of them were that plastic over rubber and I sadly left empty handed... that was until we found Trail West and our new friend, Cowboy Blue. He helped me out. I got a new pair of boots & they are lovely :D Blue was so helpful & full of quotable southern sayings that we'll be sure to use up here in Jersey. The best one was "The girl looked like a busted can of biscuits" lol! We found out that we missed Trace Adkins by minutes... it would have been very cool to run into him :(
Friday night we went to Coyote Ugly with every intention to watch the Christmas Parade after grabbing some bar food but we got distracted by a bunch of guys from Buffalo who whisked us off to another bar. The other bar was a local's place & there were all 
kinds of singers and songwriters just in there hanging out. Lee Brice, George Strait's Manager, Joe Walsh. Yeah, I was introduced to Randy Rogers and I didn't even know it until after he was talking to other people. We just hung out for a while drinking a few a lot of beers. It was a cool place with some quality live music.
Saturday we did the breakfast thing :P yuck-o, shopped some more & hit up the honkytonks on Broadway. Yeah, I believe it was something like 1:30 in the afternoon I got my first beer @ Tootsies. Hollar & a Swallar, the bar raised their glasses. The Browns fans in town for the Titans vs. Browns chanted Ohio cheers. The music was great! I still have "You never even call me by my name" and "Fishin' in the Dark" in my head. We wad such a good time!
So we stayed in this awesome 5 star hotel with a killer bathtub so we took a drinking break to take bubble baths, lol! Talk about relaxing... sigh, not to worry... that cold weather woke us right back up though!
For dinner, we ate at this great little place called Tazza. Both the food & the service were wonderful.
Later on we met up with couple of A*'s myspace friends at Buffalo Billiards & then headed over to the Wildhorse to give it another try... The so-so night was a Thursday after all. Being the line dancing fanatic I am, I had to give the Wildhorse Saloon another shot. Nada... I did 2 dances that night: Good Time and an interesting version of Country Walkin'. People did the electric slide and the Cha-cha Slide... it felt more like a wedding reception without the free booze than a Nashville line dancing destination.
About midnight, we headed up to the honky-tonk, Legends. It was pretty fun. We both saw different bar fights standing outside at different times. They sure do get rowdy in Nashville!
We also met a lot of soldiers just home from the desert over the weekend. It was really cool to see those guys home for Christmas & out celebrating!
Our Music City weekend came to an end but not before one final trip back to Tootsies en route to the airport. Our favorite live singer of the weekend, Clay Underwood was there again! That guy has some serious talent.
So I got home and read John Rich married Joan Bush while we were in town and didn't even bother to invite us to the wedding... [pout]
Nashville is a really cool place. I'll definitely go back... perhaps for fan fair :)
I just had a blast watching the CMA's. Computer on my lap in front of the TV, I spent the last 3 hours Tweeting up a storm with fellow tweeters. I made some new country music loving friends and got to chat about the show. Kenny Chesney got the Entertainer of the Year Award. Carrie Underwood sang "Just A Dream" after a powerful introduction by Leslie Ponder, the widow of a soldier. When Alan Jackson preformed his song, Good Time, line dancers filled the isles and performed the Good Time Line Dance . It was really cool.
You can read all the tweets tagged CMA08 at http://hashtags.org/tag/cma08. http://www.cmaawards.com/2008/ and http://twitter.com/CountryMusic are the official CMA site & tweets of the awards.
The ultimate country two step playlist - 100 great songs to two step to! Shine by Matt Stillwell, LINE DANCE STEP SHEET
Line Dance for Charlie Allen’s "Why Ask Why"
Another line dance from my Nashville friends.
Choreographed by GYTAL (Ginny Allen)
32 count High beginner/intermediate Line Dance
Music:.Why Ask Why-Charlie Allen
Contact Ginny: Ginnysboots@aol.com
Kick Kick ( or Touch Touch)1/4 R turn Sailor
1-2, Kick R Forward, Kick R to R Side(Variation Touch forward, touch side)
3&4 Step R behind L, step back on L1/4 Turn to R, step R forward (R Sailor) (3)
Step L forward, Lock R behind L, L Triple
5-6, Step L forward, Lock R behind L
7 &8 Step L, step R behind L, Step L forward (L triple)
Rock R to R Side, Recover L, crossing Triple
9-10, Rock R to R Side, recover L
11&12 Cross R over L, Step L behind R, Cross step R over L (Crossing Shuffle)
Ronde 1/4 turn L, L Coaster
13-14, Sweep L foot forward, to L side & Behind R foot ( Ronde) while turning 1/4 L (12) Keep Weight on R
15 &16 Srep Back On L, Step back On R, Step L Forward
Rock R Forward, Recover Back on L, R Lock Steps Back
17-18 Rock Forward on R, Recover L
19&20 Step back on R, cross L over R, step back on R
Touch L to L Side, turn 1/2 to L, Touch R to R turn 1/4 to R, touch L toe to L
21-22, Touch L to L, Turn 1/2 to L (6)
23&24 Touch R toe to R,turn 1/4 to R (9), touch L toe to L
Cross Step & Heel & Cross Hips Bumps
25 -26 Cross L over R, Step Back on R
&27&28 Step Back on L, Step R heel Forward, Step back on R, cross L over R
29-30 step forward on R bumping hips forward
31-31 step Back on L bump hips BackRepeat Why Ask Why line dance
If you're anything like me, you love buying new shoes. 2 weekends ago, I headed out on a mission to buy a new pair of cowboy boots. I live at the Jersey Shore and cowboy stores are few and far between so I headed up to Boot America in Turnersville, NJ. I believe it is the same store that used to be called Boot Village back when it was in Depford (across from the mall) in the late 90's. I always had luck there with my gynormous 'Neander-toes' {apparently size 10 is big for ladies boots}. I have checked out Cowtown Cowboy Outfitters & Zane's Western Ware in the past without luck because of my big feet.
After 11 years of line dancing in South Jersey, I've learned quite a few dances. I thought it would be useful to make a regional list of the dances I've both learned and seen in NJ. It should help anyone looking to learn a few dances that are done in the area. You can look up line dances - and find TMI! There are hundreds, maybe even thousands of line dances you can learn but where is the fun if no one else is doing them where you go?
Note: Adding the steps & videos takes quite a bit of time so here is my line dance list in progress. I'll republish it as I add links to new step sheets with videos. Feedback is welcome!
I did my best to make this all inclusive but please let me know if I missed any.
