this is another one of my favorite videos from the man....great stuff......
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0T9qBdbV7v0
Thursday, January 24, 2008
Missing Texas
I admit one of my problems living in Minnesota has been that I've never really "let go" of Texas...and we have been here 20 years. For the first few years we were here, I could still think of living in Minnesota as a sort of temporary thing, that we would eventually go back to the Lone Star state.
The longing for Texas was especially strong while Mama was still alive....March 21, 2008, will be 14 years though since she died.
I reckon I will have to quit pining for Texas at some point. It's just that I have never developed the emotional attachment to Minnesota that I still have for Texas.
Well, today the "high" was 12, and that's warm compared to what the last 10 days have been. 12...I never thought I would live anywhere but Texas, and sure never anywhere that's called the "icebox of the country."
I've lived though now though temperatures way below zero. -20, and that was not taking the wind chill into account.
When our daughter was born in January of 1996, the high that week was -10....the high.
When our second son was born in October of 1988, it snowed 33 inches on Halloween. In one day. 33 inches.
I think it snowed twice the whole time I was living in Texas, and the inch or so of the stuff on the ground put the entire area into red alert.
So, I am trying....still....wonderful things have happened to me in Minnesota, most especially the births of our three children...and, I have made a few good friends. But, with the exception of those blessed events, I think I could move tomorrow and not miss Minnesota one bit.
Really.....
The longing for Texas was especially strong while Mama was still alive....March 21, 2008, will be 14 years though since she died.
I reckon I will have to quit pining for Texas at some point. It's just that I have never developed the emotional attachment to Minnesota that I still have for Texas.
Well, today the "high" was 12, and that's warm compared to what the last 10 days have been. 12...I never thought I would live anywhere but Texas, and sure never anywhere that's called the "icebox of the country."
I've lived though now though temperatures way below zero. -20, and that was not taking the wind chill into account.
When our daughter was born in January of 1996, the high that week was -10....the high.
When our second son was born in October of 1988, it snowed 33 inches on Halloween. In one day. 33 inches.
I think it snowed twice the whole time I was living in Texas, and the inch or so of the stuff on the ground put the entire area into red alert.
So, I am trying....still....wonderful things have happened to me in Minnesota, most especially the births of our three children...and, I have made a few good friends. But, with the exception of those blessed events, I think I could move tomorrow and not miss Minnesota one bit.
Really.....
Wednesday, January 23, 2008
more steve
i sure hope i get this video posted right...still learning the ropes....
one of Steve's best....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vq4MgDwmIs
Incredible Steve Earle!!! He just gets better all the time......
one of Steve's best....
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vq4MgDwmIs
Incredible Steve Earle!!! He just gets better all the time......
Steve Earle is coming to Minneapolis!!!!
For the first time, since we moved here twenty years ago, I am counting down the days until winter is done....well, nearly done....Steve is coming to Minneapolis on March 9, three days after I turn 51, and I have the tickets in my freezing little hand....
He's been here, of course, in the last twenty years, but illness, babies or various other aspects of life kept me from seeing him...meanwhile, he made many CDs (or albums as we called them in my youth) and my children are nearly all grown up now. He's older, but still has the same powerful, wonderful voice that I have loved all of these years. In this house, I am a devoted roots rocker, trying to keep alive the music I cut my teeth on in Texas, even though some of the singers have gone onto their rewards. Waylon is gone, but Steve Earle is still with us, living in New York City and keeping a lot of us here in Flyover Land trudging through the snow and cold until March 9...
Keep rockin' Steve!!
He's been here, of course, in the last twenty years, but illness, babies or various other aspects of life kept me from seeing him...meanwhile, he made many CDs (or albums as we called them in my youth) and my children are nearly all grown up now. He's older, but still has the same powerful, wonderful voice that I have loved all of these years. In this house, I am a devoted roots rocker, trying to keep alive the music I cut my teeth on in Texas, even though some of the singers have gone onto their rewards. Waylon is gone, but Steve Earle is still with us, living in New York City and keeping a lot of us here in Flyover Land trudging through the snow and cold until March 9...
Keep rockin' Steve!!
Thursday, January 17, 2008
Happy Birthday, Steve
Happy Birthday, Steve...
January 17, 2008
You have two years on me...
All of us who have loved your music, and you, for so long hope you have a wonderful day, with many happy returns...
January 17, 2008
You have two years on me...
All of us who have loved your music, and you, for so long hope you have a wonderful day, with many happy returns...
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