Ronnie Greer band l-r John McCullough, Anthony Toner, Nick Scott, Ronnie Greer (Peter McKinney not in picture).

• Live review and photos: Stephen Graham.

Soundchecking to Jimmy Reed's 'Good Lover' which later made it into the set it was far better to hear the Ronnie Greer blues band up close and personal from a front row vantage point in the Gallery Bar rather than last time marlbank caught the band upstairs in the main theatre last year.

The river Erne - visible from inside the Gallery Bar

Nick Scott - who was on Van Morrison mid-1990s classic, the Mercury nominated Days like This, drove the beat marvellously well while the drummer on hugely beloved 'Fisherman's Blues' Waterboys classic Peter McKinney was very listenable to throughout. Dig the groove on The Waterboys tune above and you can feel some of the stately, gritty, motion that Peter drew on to hurtle the band into its own high altitude jet stream last night.

Meanwhile out on the waters of the river Erne gleaming on a night later on when many across the six counties could even view the Northern Lights given a solar storm illuminating this part of the world, the ''have-yachts'' had moored their vessels while us mere ''what-nots'' were far better lit up inside hearing some Chicago Blues - rather than the Doobie Brothers - and more in the mix from Lisburn legend, Ronnie. The Steely Dan loving guitarist told us one of his main influences is also Robben Ford (the ex-Miles Davis guitar genius) and Ford's 'Start It Up' was well caught.

Ronnie Greer playing Enniskillen on 10 May

We got a fair few numbers from Ronnie's 2020 Blues Constellation live album. But contrary to what was billed - some snafu in the blurb run in the local press the cause possibly - because Empire Music Hall, Belfast, legend ''Big'' Ken Haddock did not show.

Shame, shame, shame. Yes the Jimmy Reed classic also made the setlist. Vocals during the evening divided into two sets were by Greer and Toner while Nicky Scott provided some backing harmonies. By the time we got to 'Good Lover' I felt the band had properly warmed up. And later in the second set after dusk had fallen it was even better.

The version of Charles Mingus' 'Nostalgia in Times Square' was a bit better than when we heard the Greer band a few years back with ''Cosmic'' Clive Culbertson - another Van alumnus circa Philosopher's Stone one of the prophet of the east's most fabled creations of the last few decades - in the band that night.

Best of all last night was the Ry Cooder-esque treatment of 1920s Blind Alfred Reed song 'How Can a Poor Man Stand Such Times and Live?' that Bruce Springsteen, in Belfast playing Boucher the night before, has also covered.

Sung very lovingly by Anthony Toner, who is known above all for his own beautiful Belfast song 'Sailortown' the guitarist - also known for his collaborations with the great Fermanagh poet Frank Ormsby, former Ireland Professor of Poetry and a long-time editor of The Honest Ulsterman - in his bottleneck passages was on fluently killing form. Michael Longley's description of Ormsby's evocative style and how it “teeters on the verge of taking flight” could just as easily be grafted on to apply to the Coleraine born Northern Irish icon Toner.

Hear Toner, Scott and McCullough playing John Prine in Ophelia's Loft, Daly's bar tonight in Omagh