Notes From the Road
9-16-11 Hello Chilly Winds!
As I write this it hasn't started snowing yet... but by the time you read this it may have. Had some great gigs in the final throes of summer. Got another dose of that mega heat wave when I went over to Oklahoma and Texas. Michael Hearne's Big Barn Dance hit Taos and it was like having a major league national music festival come to my back yard. I got to hang out and hear some amazing music and catch up backstage with some friends I only see at festivals far far away. Teri Hendrix and Lloyd Maines, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Michael Martin Murphey, Trout Fishing In America, The Rifters, Chuck Cannon, Chuck Pyle, Chuck Wagon ... just seeing if you're still awake... Bob Livingston.
Bob Livingston is a founding member of the infamous Lost Gonzo Band and he has an amazing new CD out called Gypsy Alibi which won the Texas Music Awards Album of the Year for 2011. I got to help Bob and his cohorts do their show at the Taos Inn and we all had a blast. Two more cool shows I'm assisting on are with the legendary Catfish Hodge. We'll being doing a rare co-bill in Taos on Sunday October 9th at the Turnstyle Gallery Boutique. If you like blues, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat and cool music rooted in the 60's and 70's then Google Catfish and be amazed at what turns up. It will be a special night for me and I hope you'll all help spread the word about Catfish Hodge. The following week my trio will be backing up my illustrious Tasmanian red dirt country butt kicking pal Audrey Auld who is coming through Taos on October 11th to work her mojo on all the Taosenos lucky enough to be in attendance at her Taos Inn show that Tuesday evening. In November on 11-11-11 (ooooooohhhh) my trio plus the incredible Don Richmond will also be the backing band for a great your artist in Alamosa Colorado named Antonio Lopez who is releasing a new CD. Look up Antonio and give him a listen.
I have miraculously survived the entire spring and summer without any disasters and managed to stave off bankruptcy month after month. For this I'm extremely grateful and I thank you all for any parts you played in that. Well I did actually get deathly ill at the tail end of a recent gig with "The Dons" (myself and Don Richmond) up in Del Norte Colorado... but it was a total mystery and I somehow managed to avoid an ambulance ride to the ER so it doesn't really count as a disaster. Thank you Don and Teri for riding that one out with me!
Gonna hunker down and be a local yokel for the rest of the fall here in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. As far as I'm concerned that's really getting away with something. And I'm playing bass again... with a few different bands that friends have/or are assembling here in Taos. Playing bass with a great drummer is about the most fun thing there is as a musician. More later on all that. I would make some comment on the politics of the day but it's too lovely a day outside my window right now to darken up with all that ugly business. Hope you all have warm boots, coats, gloves and hats and that things are going your way.
Upper Performance Photo by Terry Georgia
Lower Performance Photo by John Claeys
Bob Livingston is a founding member of the infamous Lost Gonzo Band and he has an amazing new CD out called Gypsy Alibi which won the Texas Music Awards Album of the Year for 2011. I got to help Bob and his cohorts do their show at the Taos Inn and we all had a blast. Two more cool shows I'm assisting on are with the legendary Catfish Hodge. We'll being doing a rare co-bill in Taos on Sunday October 9th at the Turnstyle Gallery Boutique. If you like blues, Bonnie Raitt, Little Feat and cool music rooted in the 60's and 70's then Google Catfish and be amazed at what turns up. It will be a special night for me and I hope you'll all help spread the word about Catfish Hodge. The following week my trio will be backing up my illustrious Tasmanian red dirt country butt kicking pal Audrey Auld who is coming through Taos on October 11th to work her mojo on all the Taosenos lucky enough to be in attendance at her Taos Inn show that Tuesday evening. In November on 11-11-11 (ooooooohhhh) my trio plus the incredible Don Richmond will also be the backing band for a great your artist in Alamosa Colorado named Antonio Lopez who is releasing a new CD. Look up Antonio and give him a listen.
I have miraculously survived the entire spring and summer without any disasters and managed to stave off bankruptcy month after month. For this I'm extremely grateful and I thank you all for any parts you played in that. Well I did actually get deathly ill at the tail end of a recent gig with "The Dons" (myself and Don Richmond) up in Del Norte Colorado... but it was a total mystery and I somehow managed to avoid an ambulance ride to the ER so it doesn't really count as a disaster. Thank you Don and Teri for riding that one out with me!
Gonna hunker down and be a local yokel for the rest of the fall here in Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado. As far as I'm concerned that's really getting away with something. And I'm playing bass again... with a few different bands that friends have/or are assembling here in Taos. Playing bass with a great drummer is about the most fun thing there is as a musician. More later on all that. I would make some comment on the politics of the day but it's too lovely a day outside my window right now to darken up with all that ugly business. Hope you all have warm boots, coats, gloves and hats and that things are going your way.
Upper Performance Photo by Terry Georgia
Lower Performance Photo by John Claeys