Shady Pictures
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When you elope, you take bar breaks 🍻 🙌🏼 💚 #keywest #greenparrotbar
We were flattered and honored to learn this week we were named the number one dive bar in the South by Southern Living magazine.
We know that of late, "dive bar" has become a wildly misapplied and overused appellation and, we also know, some may even feel that the Green Parrot may have strayed too far from our roots to qualify, for a few reasons.
For example, for starters, some say a true dive should never appear in print unless it is closing, or mentioned as a crime-scene.
Others say that a clean, safe, well-run joint, (which we are), without the sense that shit could get dangerously strange at any moment does not qualify.
It should also be noted as other potential disqualifiers that we no longer have a condom machine in the restroom, nor are there discarded whippits strewn about.
While we do have a pinball machine and a great jukebox, as well as having a string or two of year-round Christmas lights, all dive staples, we do understand and concede that just having them doesn’t make you a dive.
What we do understand however, and here’s where I think we do qualify, is that a dive bar is one of society’s best accidentally-created things ever and we believe it’s clear to even the most casual observer that no one could ever have planned this place.
In reality, dive bars are, put simply, neighborhood places that serve reasonably-priced simple drinks with no pretense and have no-nonsense attitudes where, to name just one example, it's patently understood you can choose to be social, or can choose to be left alone to drink in private.
These are the places that pretty much say, “don’t F*** with anyone here and everything will be fine.” Our decor was once described as being whatever the clientele was wearing that day, and we acknowledge that our clientele is motley and changes according to the time of day.
In the words of local author Joy Williams, "The Parrot has an engagingly louche clientele, a pool table and a dart board, odd art, and an attitude best described by the sign over the booze shelves: 'No Sniveling'”
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Music for a good cause & for good friends.
This Sunday evening! The Happy Dog from 5:30-7:00 & the Beatle Band from 7:15-8:30.
#payitforward #payitforwardlive #greenparrotsoundcheck #keywest #thebeatlebandkw #keywestpeople #greenparrotbar
Mangrove Mama!
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I will be back body painting at Fantasy Fest. Make your appointment with me today and come get painted by me at Paradise Tattoo. Check my Fantasy Fest page on my website... www.CanvasAlive.com
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bet this place fills up today. Drunken Hearts 5:30, 9:00 & 11:00 @thedrunkenhearts @greenparrot @jimfossumphotos @mile0festkeywest #lifeunderaparachute #greenparrot #greenparrotbar #parachute #bestlivemusicvenue #livemusic #keywest #floridakeys #jimfossumphotos
The Conch Train is our favorite way to travel around Key West! 🐚🚂 #lovefl #keywest #conchrepublic #conchtrain #greenparrotbar AuthenticFlorida.com
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The top photo was taken in The Brown Derby over 60 years ago and the one below it was taken in The Green Parrot last Veterans Day.
If you look behind them as well as over their left shoulders you can see both photos were taken with the front-corner windows of our building with the overhang visible over their left shoulders through the open front door.
After so many years, we are proud to continue to welcome America’s finest through our doors.
This Veteran's Day, all of us here at The Green Parrot Bar would like to take the time to thank the men and women who have served in the U.S. armed forces and express our gratitude for all the sacrifices they have made and continue to make.
Today and every day, we couldn't say thank you enough.
To those seaman pictured in the recent photo, Matt, Greg, and Steve, stay safe, God bless, and thanks for all you do. To those in the older photo, we remain forever grateful for your service.
#thankavet #veteransday #keywest #armedforces #greenparrotbar#brownderbykeywest #submarineservice #submariners #keywestnavalbase
I played a couple of shows in Key West, FL w/ Nik & the Nice Guys at the super cool greenparrot with an amazing crowd and then got home and had to figure out how to remove a layer of ice from a Honda Civic •
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When you only have about 8 hours in Key West and you want to see as much as you can, the oldtowntrolley is the perfect option. Scroll through some of our fun photos and check out the full post today on the blog. #hosted #travel #keywest #trolley #southernmostpoint #greenparrotbar
Patrick and The Swayzees' Rock 'n Soul Explodes onto Green Parrot Stage
The Surf/Soul/Rock-a-Billy Ensemble, Patrick and The Swazyes make a much-anticipated return to The Green Parrot stage at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, February 6th, with shows at 5:30, 9:00 and 11:00 p.m.
#greenparrotbar #greenparrotsoundcheck #americanidol #lesgreene#patrickandtheswayzees #greenparrotbar #keywestmusicians #keywestmusic#youknowyoumakemewannashout #livemusic#localsbar#divebar#nocovernominimumnowonder
It’s Mardi Gras time, Fat Tuesday is upon us once more and though you may not be on Canal Street catching beads, at The Parrot today you can still put on your dancing shoes and Let The Good Times Roll with The Myles Mancuso Band with shows at 5:30, 9:00 and 11:00 p.m. Always at this time of year I’m reminded of the many relationships we have forged over the years with Crescent City performers, particularly with people like The Wild Magnolias, The Legendary Mardi Gras Indians, who, a few years back led by no less than Big Chief Monk Boudreaux himself, along with Bo Dollis, Jr., took the Parrot stage by storm with their soulful chants of Iko Iko and Jack A Mo and brought a living, breathing infusion of authentic NOLA culture to our little corner.
I can recall being awe-struck at the prospect of actually having them here, and when they did roll in, meeting with them and somewhat nervously, getting them parked and settled in, and going over the stage plot, band house, meals, etc. and finally asking The Big Chief himself if there was anything I was missing or was there anything else we needed to know about them, to which he replied casually, I think partly in an effort to lighten things up and help me relax, “Well John”, he said, “we got a lot of feathers".
#wildmagnolias #bigchiefmonkboudreaux #bodollisjr #mardigrasindians #fattuesday #nola #ikoiko #jackamo #greenparrotbar
Of course, we found #NOLA in KeyWest! 🎷🎸🎺 (we heard the greenparrotbar has regular Nola bands, so naturally we came) 💚 waterseedmusic #showmeyournola #showmeyourtravels #keywest #greenparrotbar #dokeywestlikealocal
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“If you screwed a jukebox to a choo-choo train powered by a nuclear reactor and gave it a guitar, you’d have some idea of Sleepy LaBeef.”-The Oxford American Rockabilly legend Sleepy LaBeef, called “a living, breathing guitar-picking history of American music… a national treasure” by The New York Times, passed away Thursday, December 26th. He was 84 and for nearly seven decades had lived his life on stages, in honky-tonks, and on the road.
As modest as he was talented, he seemed unaware that he was the inspiration to three generations of roots music lovers. “Ah, I’m just out there havin’ fun”, he says in his deep humble Arkansas drawl.
He mentioned more than once that he included Parrot folks among his favorite audiences. With his passing, his visits to The Green Parrot now become indelible cultural high-water marks.
We were so fortunate to witness those eclectic and encyclopediac sets that left Parrot patrons as well as members of his own band shaking their heads in disbelief.
Here’s what we wrote about Sleepy’s Parrot show in December of 2006.
Sleepy LaBeef climbed onstage for the afternoon soundcheck and delivered a set of seismic proportions.
Covering tunes by everyone from Bob Wills to Rockin’ Sidney, the songs were flying by like white center lines on Thunder Road, with hardly a breath between them, it was a stream of consciousness of Americam music: Waltz Across Texas...Faded Love...White Lightning...Okie From Muskogee, ...Maybeline...Josephine...Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down...Today I Started Loving You Again...From a Jack to a King...Detour...Folsom Prison...Pork Salad Annie...Six Days on The Road...Leaving no musical stone unturned or no vein of American roots-rock too obscure for him to mine, it was Duane Eddie’s Twang, Nancy Sinatra’s Boots, Johnny Ace’s Christmas, Ernest Tubbs’ Two-Step, Merle Haggard and George Jones climbing in and out of bottles, and the subterannean baritone of Johnny Cash …
But Most of All.
It was Sleepy LaBeef.
#sleepylabeef #rockabilly #rockabillylegend #americana #greenparrotbar
Here’s Justin Harris in 2014 sporting his freshly-minted Tradesman's Pass as well as his “Where’s Jimbo” tradesman's tattoo.
Lew of The Walking Dead in the background closing in fast.
Drop by today as laminated, officially-authorized Tradesman and Tradeswoman Passes will be once again be issued with Tony Gregory, Christine, Dixie and Candace on hand to issue them complete with name, photo, and occupation. And remember you don't even need a job to get one!
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Well, Thanksgiving is upon us once again, and we can not let this special holiday pass us by without a reprise of what is possibly our GOAT Holiday image.
The holiday image we note here would be of course our longtime friend, and Green Parrot Fiddling Champ Bob Murphy’s Turkey Dinner Tattoo.
And here it is, indelibly affixed to Bob’s arm, for the ages, Roast Tom Turkey with all the fixin’s.
Again we say, Happy Thanksgiving to all, and again we ask, “Bob, what were you thinkin’, or better yet, exactly what sort of magic mushrooms were in that stuffing?
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