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"Kountry Karaokee" in Santee            

          Lacey J's Roadhouse Saloon & Grille
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     8861 N Magnolia Ave, Formerly Mulvaney's/Wagon Wheel,                            Santee, CA    Phone: 619-448-8550  
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                                               Email: laceyjsroadhousesaloon@gmail.com

      
Lacey J's Roadhouse Saloon & Grill (aka Wagon Wheel) 

              Mulvaney's is now the "Wagon Wheel" under new management.  It features
              karaoke Wed nights.  Other weekday nights there is line-dancing.  Bands perform
              from an elevated stage on the weekends.  A bigger dance floor to wheel your
              partner around in I can't imagine, although Cahoots in Mission Valley rivals it. 
              Check out the variety of musical styles their bands offer:
                                      http://www.facebook.com/LaceyJsRoadhouseSaloon  


              Karaoke here at Lacey J's on the corner of Mission Gorge and Magnolia in Santee
              was informal, low-key. friendly, slow-paced mostly country karaoke courtesy of the
              KJ - Mike.   Maybe 20 people were there tonight. Half were singers.  The youngest looked
              to be 20 and the oldest, well that would be me...Nearly all the songs seemed to come
              from the pinnacle of American country music, 1955-1980. That suggests good taste to my                 ears.   The ladies were the stars.  Clemencia say "Never, Never, Never" as perfectly

              as you will ever want to hear while Lana brought the house down with "Blue",
              universally a Leann Rimes favorite. 

              The Karaoke sound was definitely "subdued" almost soft, somewhere above

              "background."   This is not a bad thing.  People can talk without getting hoarse
              or they can easily listen to the performance, maybe 10-30' at a distance, as they choose.
              I liked that It was easy to walk around and talk to most everyone there.

              Three video displays let the audience see the poetry of the songs wherever you sat.

              The tables have movable wooden chairs, making it easy to move around and talk
               to different people, too.  And the food was very good. No greasy spoon - this.
               There was a long menu of burgers, chicken and fish with lots of healthy green extras. 
               And joyfiully, the prices were quite modest. 

               I especially liked that we could bring our own karaoke CDs and not have to depend on
               what the KJ might have in his computer.  Too often when the songs come from

               a computer, it means the singer risks singing familiar songs that are unexpectedly now
               in a different key or have different words or are missing whole verses altogether.

               "A clean, well-lighted place" with lots of free parking and a long, well-stocked bar,
               there were no rowdy drunks here.  Only easy-going, no pressure friendly singing. 
               That something I'd gladly drive 20 miles to on a Wednesday night. 

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                           Smiling bar-keeps
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