Maverick's Flat is once again Where It's At....we hope!

Dining with Louie Cruz Beltran and Anastasia Mann tonight, we started talking about our upcoming gig at Maverick's Flat.  I was kinda proud of myself for doing a bit of digging around on the world wide interweb and "discovering" that Maverick's had quite the history.  When Central Avenue started dwindling down as a center for music in the 1960s, the changing nightclub scene moved West. The Crenshaw/ Adams area became the focal point for a vibrant new soul and R&B scene.  Clubs like John Daniel's Maverick's Flat, Wilt Chamberlain's Basin Street West, the Hippodrome, and Redd Foxx's Jazz Go-Go were some of the hot spots.  Turns out that Louie was mentored by John Daniels and toured Europe with one of Daniel's bands at one point.  The resourceful Mr. Daniels also had an interesting acting career, appearing in some awesome blacksploitation films. He played Mr. Jonathan the hairdresser in the racy and silly cult classic "Black Shampoo".  ("This stud is no dud!").  Also appearing in that movie was Skip E. Lowe - but that is a whole different post. I digress.

So Maverick's is re-opening.  We know that they have been fighting the good fight to get the place back up on its feet, and we are booked for Saturday night, December 18th.