Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Maryland

I'm sitting here in Frederick, Maryland on a gig with writer and musician Clyde Edgerton. I drove up today from Winston while Jack King, the guitar player and Clyde flew up. Mike Craver our keyboard player drove up from Lexington. I wanted my bass so I drove. Six hours is kind of long but the flight takes almost as long. It's worth it to have my bass. I have gotten some of the most outrageous excuses for an instrument when I use rental bass. The gig is Thursday, tomorrow. I have a nice room in a Marriott. We will play a lot tomorrow. Clyde likes to rehearse before the gig. It's the only chance we get. We are known as Clyde Edgerton and The Rank Strangers. Jack and I do some Jazz stuff to start. Sort of freeish stuff then it's time for a Doc Watson tune. Clyde writes some really funny and good tunes too. Safety Patrol is pretty cool. It's about being in the Safety Patrol in elementary school. We do some bluegrass.
Clyde reads from his books and all in all it's a pretty grand time.

Sunday, April 5, 2009

Easter

I was thinking about Easter and remembered something from a few years ago. I was explaining Easter to my daughter Madeline about 4 or 5 years ago. She is nine now. I told her the whole story, the cross, nails etc.
I got to the part about the cave, I said and on the 3rd day the stone rolled away and out of the cave came...
she interrupted and said "the Easter Bunny"?