Mellowship kept the mood casual in a near-empty house at Bourbon Street Thursday night, taking requests and playing the usual ‘90s comfort covers.

Only two of the four band members played the show, Layne Flournoy and Adam Stax, both on acoustic guitar.

They started the night about 11:30 p.m. with Tom Petty’s “You Don’t Know How It Feels,” and moved on to an array of different songs throughout the night, mainly country and those lovable ‘90s tunes.

The crowd was scarce, but the few people at the bar, and the small group playing pool, would give the occasional whistle or shout in appreciation.

Layne and Adam made up for the lack of crowd with excellent audience interaction, speaking directly to the crowd, and playing every request—except one for Lynrd Skynrd’s “Sweet Home Alabama”—and it didn’t seem that anyone missed it.

Some highlights from the show were covers of Pearl Jam’s “Yellow Ledbetter,” Sublime’s “Santeria” and the Allman Brothers’ “Soulshine,” two of which were requests.

On Mellowship’s myspace page, myspace.com/mellowshipbirmingham, they list Stone Temple Pilots, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Sublime and Hightide Blues as inspirations, and their acoustic covers showed it.

They kept the show lively, playing covers that had a quick tempo and keeping the audience’s attention, playing song after song that took you back to the ‘90s, but slipped up by playing Oasis’ “Wonderwall,” a song that has been overplayed by many guitar-toting beach goers.

But given the extremely small crowd and the lack of two band members, the two guys did a good job of filling the nearly empty room.

Audience Reaction

"They rock my socks off—everyone should be here." Emily Yadacus


"Mellowship blew my mind. If you weren't here, you blew it big time." Eric Keenum


"They've been rocking ‘90s songs like nobody's business. They were jamming out like there's no tomorrow." Joshua Grimes