Hard drinkin'! Old regulars mackin' on considerably younger female Illbilly fans! Confederate battleflags! Incongruous weaponry! It was all at the Stratford Grill in Richmond's fashionable Stratford Hills area on the night of January 24th, where the Illbillys combined their loyal followers with an unsuspecting mass of Stratford Grill regulars for an introduction to their new lead guitarist, Chris Vasi! Surprisingly few objects were flung at the band, and the bar that had seemed so small became the wide-open concert hall of dreams. Well no, it actually stayed pretty small the whole time, but that's okay, because nobody suffered from any claustrophobic episodes.


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