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 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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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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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
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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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
“Monkey Mind” is a Buddhist term, referring to the restless and unsettled nature of your mind. The chattering mouthpiece of your ego; your inner critic. Stifling your creativity and suggesting that your passions are a waste of time. The monkey is like a self centered, whining child; nearly impossible to ignore. “Don’t be pushed around
Golden rolling hills, under a big sky. Cottonwood trees along a river bed. Vibrant ringneck pheasant with head bright red. Explodes upward, with a cackle and cry. Under a big sky, where fierce falcons fly. Sleek, fast Pronghorns with tails bushy and white. Race over the hill; disappear from sight. The High Plains; brilliant, under
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Quotes to get you over the Hump. “As a retired physician, I can honestly say that unless you are in a serious accident, your best chance of living to a ripe old age is to avoid doctors and hospitals and learn nutrition, herbal medicine and other forms of natural medicine unless you are fortunate enough
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Dark Star Orchestra *With Steve Kimock & Rob Baracco* Mexicali Blues Teaneck, NJ June 7th, 2005 This show is 16 and half years old and sounds just as good today is it did then. DSO is still touring and bringing it but this is a really good show with Kimock and Baracco joining the crew,
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Hundreds of windmills, spread across the hill. Blades turning in unison with the wind. Our dependence on oil, they hope to end. But at what cost to our energy bill. Like alien beasts, littering the plain. Ugly, offensive, destroying the view. Upsetting nature and killing birds too. The new green deal, is completely insane. Just
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The “Jamestown Massacre” happened on November 18, 1978, when just over 900 cult members from the Peoples Temple were effectively murdered by cult leader Jim Jones. He founded the cult in the 1950’s in Indianapolis and relocated to California in the 1960’s. By the 1970’s the charismatic cult leader had moved to San Francisco and
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.” ― William Butler Yeats
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