Uploaded June 2008 | Updated September 2026, 2 hours ago
You are watching a video of The Hurricanes Band - with special guest artist - "Dangerous" Dan Toler on guitar - playing the Dickey Betts song 'Good Time Feeling' at the Five O'Clock Club in Sarasota, FL in March of 2006. This song was originally released by Dickey Betts and Great Southern in March of 1978. This is one of my personal favorites of Dickey's country flavored songs. Although Dickey Betts made his mark in the Blues/Rock idiom, I always felt he could have excelled as a country picker/singer. I would love to see CMT Crossroads do a pairing of two legendary renegade musicians, Dickey Betts and Merle Haggard!
The video photographer for this video was Michael Jacobs of MJ Video Productions here in Sarasota, FL.
The Hurricanes had the pleasure of having 'Dangerous' Dan Toler sit in with us for this evenings performance. Since the recording of this video, "Dangerous" Dan Toler has been diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. Please visit the website constructed for "Dangerous" Dan Toler to help educate others about this crippling disease and also as a forum for Dan's Friends, Family and Fans to help out if they can, as this is going to place a tremendous financial burden upon Dan Toler and his Family. The website is frayerproductions.com/helpdantoler - Thank-You!
The Hurricanes Band is:
Matthew Greenwood - Gibson Guitar & Vocals
Mike Hensley - Keyboards
Gyll Perkins - Vocals & Percussion
Matthew Peterson - Drums
Dan Toler - Fender Guitar
Greg Vorhees - Bass Guitar
You are watching a video of The Hurricanes Band - with special guest artist - "Dangerous" Dan Toler on guitar - playing the Dickey Betts song 'Good Time Feeling' at the Five O'Clock Club in Sarasota, FL in March of 2006. This song was originally released by Dickey Betts and Great Southern in March of 1978. This is one of my personal favorites of Dickey's country flavored songs. Although Dickey Betts made his mark in the Blues/Rock idiom, I always felt he could have excelled as a country picker/singer. I would love to see CMT Crossroads do a pairing of two legendary renegade musicians, Dickey Betts and Merle Haggard!
The video photographer for this video was Michael Jacobs of MJ Video Productions here in Sarasota, FL.
The Hurricanes had the pleasure of having 'Dangerous' Dan Toler sit in with us for this evenings performance. Since the recording of this video, "Dangerous" Dan Toler has been diagnosed with ALS, or Lou Gehrig's Disease. Please visit the website constructed for "Dangerous" Dan Toler to help educate others about this crippling disease and also as a forum for Dan's Friends, Family and Fans to help out if they can, as this is going to place a tremendous financial burden upon Dan Toler and his Family. The website is frayerproductions.com/helpdantoler - Thank-You!
The Hurricanes Band is:
Matthew Greenwood - Gibson Guitar & Vocals
Mike Hensley - Keyboards
Gyll Perkins - Vocals & Percussion
Matthew Peterson - Drums
Dan Toler - Fender Guitar
Greg Vorhees - Bass Guitar
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A Song with flavors of Mardi Gras, Country Gospel & Blues. Revisiting a wonderful song from the past. Dickey Betts wrote this song Good Time Feeling and recorded & released it in 1978. The song immediately became a favorite of mine. For many years our band opened every show we played with this song. It seemed to be a great tune for the band to get in the groove on (Greasing The Tracks), and to set a good vibe for the evenings show. Songs tend to evolve over time, and this version is the result of years of tweaking and trying different things. When I started thinking about recording a new version of this song, I had in mind giving it a Southern Gospel feel. Good Time Feeling seemed to fall into that Gospel feel quite easily. The horn section adds to that Gospel/Mardi Gras feel that we were going for.
Many thanks to all the talented musicians who participated in the making of this recording. A special thanks to Jeff Doc Thal, who not only played the drums and percussion on this recording, but also did executed all of the engineering/mixing of the numerous tracks that were recorded.
This recording is dedicated to the memory of two of our recently departed friends, John Henry & Wayne Jones. John Henry was a very talented drummer and vocalist with whom I played thousands of gigs with, in our band The Hurricanes over an almost 20 year period. John and I truly became like brothers, having spent so much time together making our music. John left us on February 21st 2020 at the age of 66.
Wayne Jones was a long-time friend, both as an enthusiastic supporter of our live music, but also as one of our Band of Brothers from our Camping Tribe at the ever-popular 12 Hours of Sebring Race in Sebring, FL. Wayne was co-founder of the Sarasota Racing & Drinking Enthusiasts association (SRDE) and had camped trackside at the the Sebring Track for 50 years, enjoying European Style SportsCar Racing and the fine art of round-the-clock revelry. Wayne had recently been honored in the official 2020 Sebring Raceway Program as the Fan Of The Year recipient. Wayne was thrilled to receive this very notable award, as were all of us in the LaBomba/SRDE camps. Wayne lost a lengthy battle with a respiratory disease on May 07th 2021 at the age of 63.")
