Joe Diamond

Joe Diamond was a myna bird, and man could Joe Diamond sing. He played a mean sax. He loved that president. He loved his country but feared his government.
Joe Diamond played and sang in basement clubs all over Texas and Louisiana. Joe Diamond was so good even aardvarks would have to get up and dance when old Joe Diamond came to town.
One day Joe Diamond decided that he didn’t particularly want to play the gig he had that night and almost caused a riot. He was thinking he’d just show up and dance around flapping his wings every which way. Joe Diamond was also a dancing myna bird.
No such luck.
So he satisfied himself with dancing around on the stage while he played that night. He powered through a couple of classics: Basin Street Blues, East Side Strut, E Train and a song he wrote his ownself called Shreveport Shuffle. Always a popular one with the crowds that knew him, even if he never played it the same way twice. The place was smokin’ ’till 6am. The gig was in New Orleans of course. A couple of big dogs got into a fight, but other than that there was only musical mayhem. Besides big dogs always fight when they get together. Next morning you know they’ll be friends again, chasing cats like it never happened.
Joe Diamond was a happy myna bird though there were times he’d rather have been dancing.