Happy Hump Day – January 12th, 2022
“What good is the warmth of summer, without the cold of winter to give it sweetness.” ― John Steinbeck
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Monday Morning Music #35 – Serene Green
Serene Green is the collective musical vision of Pennsylvania natives Quentin Fisher, Michael Johnson, Steve Leonard and Shane McGeehan. Serene Green’s desire is to create music highlighting its original compositions and individual style, while honoring the traditions set forth by the pioneers of bluegrass music. Since early 2017, Serene Green has recorded and released two
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Derelicts
They say a picture’s worth a 1000 words and since I couldn’t find any words this week; thought I’d share a few pictures. There’s something about old derelict buildings that draw my eye. I’m not sure if it’s the weathered textures or geometric shapes, but I spend a fair bit of time hunting and shooting
Hump Day Quote – January 5th, 2021
Life moves pretty fast, if you don’t stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it. ~ Ferris Bueller
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M.M.M. #34 – Metropolitan Jamgrass Alliance
Metropolitan Jamgrass Alliance 04/16/2019 Brooklyn Bowl Brooklyn, NY The Band Tim Carbone – Fiddle (Railroad Earth) Andy Falco – Acoustic Guitar (The Infamous Stringdusters) Jacob Jolliff – Mandolin (Yonder Mountain String Band) Patrick Falco – Bass (The Falco Brothers) Tony Trischka – Banjo Alwyn Robinson – Drums (Leftover Salmon) Metropolitan Jamgrass Alliance is a musical
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Destiny, The Path Within
Destiny and Fate are often used interchangeably but they’re actually at opposite ends of the spectrum, like Love and Fear. The opposite of Love isn’t hate, it’s Fear. Love is light, while Fear creates a dark and distorted reality. Love vanquishes Fear, the same way that light vanquishes darkness. “We can easily forgive a child
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Hump Day Quote – December 29th, 2021
Inspiration to get you over the hump. “If you have to be persuaded, reminded, pressured, lied to, incentivized, coerced, bullied, socially shamed, guilt-tripped, threatened, punished and criminalized … If all of this is considered necessary to gain your compliance — you can be absolutely certain that what is being promoted is not in your best
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M.M.M. #33 – Leftover Salmon
Leftover Salmon DelFest 2017 Alleghany County Fairgrounds Cumberland, MD May 27, 2017 The Band Vince Herman – guitar, vocals Drew Emmitt – mando, guitar, fiddle, vocals Andy Thorn – banjo Dr. Greg Garrison – bass Erik Deutsch – kbds Alwyn Robinson – drums Guests Jason Carter – fiddle Bryan Sutton – electric guitar Ronnie McCoury
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An Old Road Dog Enjoys a Warm December Afternoon
An Old Road Dog escapes his chores and hits the gravel for a bit of Winter Solstice wheeling. Thanks to global warming, on the second shortest day of the year, I escape the doldrums of my wintertime tasks to go pedaling about on the High Plains. The weather forecast for today is mid-sixties, with wind
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Happy Hump Day – December 22nd, 2021
Inspiration to get you over the Hump. The secret to change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old but on building the new. ~ Socrates
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Dark Winter
What is this “Winter of Death,” they speak of? A new Sci-Fi film, perhaps a new virus variant? Nope, it’s the prediction from the White House and Plutocrat Puppet, Joe “Bag of Doughnuts” Biden. Today marks the Winter Solstice. The shortest day of the year and the first day of the “Winter of Death.” Schools
Monday Morning Music #32 – Leftover Salmon
LEFTOVER SALMON June 16, 1995 Town Park Main Stage – Telluride Bluegrass Festival Telluride, Colorado Leftover Salmon This show was a quarter century ago. Nearly as far back as the origins of Leftover Salmon but not quite. They’ve been making music for 32 years. Amazing. I’ve been listening to them for over 20 years. They’ve
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Escape from L.A.
Life imitates art once again as another old science fiction movie comes to life. In 1996 the movie Escape from L.A. showed in theaters. Starring Kurt Russell, it was a follow up to the 1981 Escape from New York. Russell played Snake Plissken. His mission was to retrieve a device in Los Angeles, which had