The husband and wife team of Wade Benson Landry and Teresa Bowe Landry highlighted Mike's Ramblin' Country Show in Gentry Friday night. Around 100 people showed up for the performance, which included numbers from Mike Duley's band as well as Cajun style music from the Landry family along with comedy thrown in for good measure. People from as far away as Eagleville and Creston and Des Moines showed up for the show.
Mike Duley's band opened with "I'm Ashamed of You," an instrumental version of "Rock around the Clock," "Cowboys Don't Cry," "The Door is Always Open," "Thank God for the Radio," and "Margaritaville."
The Landrys, who have a show down in Branson, came on next. Wade was born and raised in Louisiana where he learned to play. He and Teresa have been married for the last four years and "I've laughed through the whole thing," he said. "It beats working for a living." They opened with "Time Changes Everything" and led the audience in saying, "I like that!" They pronounced Cameron, where they were staying, as "Came-RON" and Wayde told stories about playing with Jimmy C. Newman at the Grand Ole Opry.
Among the jokes he told was the one about two men looking at the attractive girls in the latest Sears catalog. One of them decides to order one of the girls for $49 and so a few weeks later, the friend asks about the order and the guy says, "I got the clothes yesterday, so the girl can't be too far behind." Another one was about a police officer who, when called by a woman to take care of a man engaging in indecent exposure said, "I'm gonna put the arrest on him." In between songs sang by Teresa, Wade told another one about a patient who had trouble going to sleep and so the doctor gives him a visualization exercise in which he tells the toes, "go to sleep," and then the legs, progressing up the rest of the body. But the problem is that when he first tries this at home, the wife comes in and then the man frantically yells to his body parts, "Wake up! Wake up! Wake up!"
The Landrys took a break to change and to set up their CD display. In the meantime, Mike Duley and his band performed some more numbers, including "Little Bitty Town," "Don't have very far to go (to break my heart)", "I look at your picture far too often," "You don't know me, but you don't like me," a song about judgmental people, and "White Lightning."
Following the intermission, Duley's band performed "Take it Back," "The Way I Am," "Only Make-Believe," "Don't you ever get tired of hurting me?," "Round the Clock Lover," and "On Both Sides of Good Bye."
Wade and Teresa Landry came back on stage and performed "San Antonio Rose" and then Wade told stories about working with George Jones and then Tammy Wynette. They then performed "Young and Slim," "Apartment Number 9," and "Just Someone I Used to Know."
Their family then got in on the act, with "Cousin Pud" taking the stage and telling some of his favorite jokes. There was one fellow who went to Chicago thinking it was the size of Gentry and was looking for a fellow named Dunn. He finally found a sign on a building with the words "Brad & Dunn." He went into the building, found a well-dressed man, and asked, "Are you Dunn?" The office person, thinking that the stranger was referring to his task, replied, "Yes, I'm done." The first man says, "Then call home right away!" Another joke "Cousin Pud" then told was about going into a residential home and entertaining a resident with about 15-20 songs. The old man just looked at him and said nothing the whole time. Finally, Pud said, "I hope you get better." So the old man replies, "I hope you do too!" Teresa's sister Collette performed as well, singing "I'll come running to you."
Wade Benson Landry performs at 10 a.m. Monday through Thursday on April, May, and September through December at the God and Country Theatre next to Applebees on 76 in Branson. He performs with Cajun accordionist Adam Guidry along with Teresa. Teresa Bowe Landry has her own show at the God and Country Theatre, performing Mondays, Tuesdays, and Saturdays at 7:30.With her group "Angels of Country Music," they perform traditional songs by legendary ladies of Country Music, including Loretta Lynn, Tammy Wynette, Reba McEntire, Dolly Parton, Brenda Lee, and others.
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