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I"m there Bob. I might be a comparitive youngun at 60 but yep I"m already there
When I was working at Lakehurst 27 years ago, one of my coworkers was retiring to West Virginia and asked me if I wanted his Tom Waits albums. He had 21 of them, and I promptly turned them over to my best friend Don, who loved to listen to Tom Waits. When I dropped the albums (all in perfect condition) into his lap, he thought he died and went to heaven. Anyway, Tom has a cult following. I don't really get him, but I did like this one song about a guy who has no body below his beltline (Tabletop Joe), but makes it in entertainment anyway. Something about the flow and oddness of this song appeals to me.
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The Billy Strings' Highway Prayers movie, reminded me of a recent video on the Freiburger Channel. It's not the Pines, and there is little music. But it does have an old Jeep, backroads, small towns, old buildings, and funny conversations. Stuff I think most of us would enjoy.
Makes me wish I could visit Snuffy Smith's.
Makes me wish I could visit Snuffy Smith's.
Billy Strings is great I jam out to him often on the way to and from work. Just watched this Freiburger episode yesterday whole lot of neat old buildings and abandoned vehicles.
The cross-country Jeep tour brought back memories from decades ago. One of my best friends, who was in the Navy, was reassigned to the East Coast. I flew out to California, and we went cross-country in his Jeep. (It was in much better shape than the one in the video.)
We had a few adventures en route, including a snow and ice storm in Texas and a hotel room with no heat and the temperature around zero degrees F. My buddy had it worse than me -- he said that I snored worse than anyone he had ever heard in the United States Navy.
We had a few adventures en route, including a snow and ice storm in Texas and a hotel room with no heat and the temperature around zero degrees F. My buddy had it worse than me -- he said that I snored worse than anyone he had ever heard in the United States Navy.
You know why they put women in cages back then, so old Bobby can't get at 'em.
A nod to the King, born ninety years ago today. It's strange to think that the fiftieth anniversary of his death is now only two years away.
Heartbreak Hotel was Elvis's first #1 single.
Heartbreak Hotel was Elvis's first #1 single.
I was thirteen setting in front of the TV watching Wee Willy Weber at Grannys house when it came over the screen that the King was Gone and then the next day Ronnie McDowell had that song out,almost like he had already written it.
PS another famous persons birthday is tomorrow
PS another famous persons birthday is tomorrow
PS another famous persons birthday is tomorrow
Absolutely correct. Joan Baez celebrates her 84th birthday today. This is from her appearance at Woodstock:
I never figured you for a Joan Baez fan, Al!
(Aging, yes. Maturing, no.)
I saw Joan Baez at the old Spectrum. I liked her voice, but I only went to take this girl I met out somewhere.
If you don't grow up by age fifty then you don't have to.Heck I passed that mark with flying colors.For me there will be no second childhood.I never left my first one.Absolutely correct. Joan Baez celebrates her 84th birthday today. This is from her appearance at Woodstock:
I never figured you for a Joan Baez fan, Al!
(Aging, yes. Maturing, no.)
I watched it all. Good stuff. By the way, parts of Texas looks like a third world country.
Leon! Was tickled to find the entire Homewood Session on-line. Remember watching it w/ friends on The Midnight Special (hosted by the Wolfman) on a fuzzy B&W TV in dad's barn late one night.
"I love you in a place where there's no space and time". What a line. Here's one of my favorites of his. Love the echo effect.
Hank wrote it, and does it well. But BJ Thomas really polished it off.
That is a unique band, for sure. For something different, I like a bit of Bill Frisell.