Yonder Mountain String Band Sheridan Opera House Telluride, Colorado June 20th, 2008 Here’s the finale from the awesome Sheridan show. The best for last or something like that! Set List Support Live Music in Your Neighborhood!
M.M.M. #106 – YMSB at the Sheridan Opera House Read More »
Carpe Diem is at the top of my dead language metaphor list. It’s like a war cry for, warriors of the present moment. Poets and philosophers have expressed the sentiment for millennia and plenty of folks in the present age must connect with the sentiment as well. The phrase gets used extensively in the names
“It is only when there is no goal and no rush that the human senses are fully open to receive the world.” ~ Alan Watts
H.H.D. – September 6th, 2023 Read More »
Yonder Mountain String Band Sheridan Opera House Telluride, Colorado June 20th, 2008 Here is the 2nd set of tunes from this exceptional show. Come back next Monday for the third and final set. Enjoy! Set List Support Live Music in Your Neighborhood!
M.M.M. #105 – Yonder Mountain in Telluride #2 Read More »
I started writing this essay a few months ago but it just never clicked. I’d open it occasionally, read through and attempt to write but it wasn’t any fun. There were other articles to write that were more pleasant and easier to pen, so I stayed away. Recently though, I realized that the message is
Is it Live or is it Memorex Read More »
“As you start to walk on the way, the way appears.” ~ Rumi
H.H.D. – August 30th, 2023 Read More »
Yonder Mountain String Band Sheridan Opera House Telluride, Colorado June 20th, 2008 I sort of got lost in the Archive, hunting some tunes to celebrate the 50th Anniversary of Telluride and ran into this exceptional show from 15 years ago. But that’s what celebrating the longevity of this Fesitval is all about I reckon. Yonder
M.M.M. #104 – Yonder Mountain at The Sheridan Read More »
One of the things I truly love about this time of year is walking out the back door of the cottage into the cool morning sunshine and harvesting breakfast from the garden. We backed off on the garden this year. It’s a lot of work and we didn’t want to get as tied down as
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Two things that have the power to steal my joy; when I’m out there, getting my daily dose of dirt, are heat and wind. That’s why I like to get out early. The coolest and calmest part of the day is the morning. As the angle of the sun increases, the thermometer and anemometer numbers
“In order to write about life first you must live it.” ~ Ernest Hemingway
H.H.D. – August 23rd, 2023 Read More »
The folks converged on Telluride again this summer to celebrate the 50th Anniverary of the Bluegrass Festival. For me Telluride has always been the grandaddy of them all. I’m sifting through some of the shows that got posted in the Archive and putting together a mix or two or three…we’ll see what I come up
M.M.M. #103 – Telluride Bluegrass Festival, 50th Anniversary Read More »
Back around four and half millenniums ago or millennia if you prefer, the supreme deity of the Egyptian pantheon ruled the sky. His name was Ra, which in ancient Egyptian simply meant “sun.” A great god, riding in his barge across the heavens by day, and descending into the underworld at night. Ra was creator;
I’m pretty sure that the Path to Enlightenment and the Stairway to Heaven aren’t paved in silver and gold or asphalt and concrete. I’m betting they’re covered in dirt. Many of my favorite memories are connected to a dirt road. Even though I grew up during the build out of Eisenhower’s Interstate Highway dream, it