well, i have been off a long time, can't seem to get my pictures to cooperate....my brain has been frozen due to the temps of the last few days, the highest a blistering 14....sigh....
Friday, December 12, 2008
Trying that again
well, i have been off a long time, can't seem to get my pictures to cooperate....my brain has been frozen due to the temps of the last few days, the highest a blistering 14....sigh....
The Dead Season Arrives
December 12,
2008
Wow,
I guess it's been awhile since I last
wrote...the dead season, as i fondly
call it, has rolled into Minnesota.
now, we won't see or talk to
anyone for the next 5 months...that is kind of an
exaggeration...kind
of. people hole up here like chipmunks in the winter,
you see them
leaving home in the mornings and coming back at night and rarely,
if ever,
does anyone really speak to you. it is one of the most
isolated,
and isolating, places to live, especially for a girl from Texas who
really
loves to talk....the loneliness can sometimes get you down. it's the
worst time of the year for me to stay clean and not drink or use. And,
to
that...I have 15 months clean. the longest I've been sober in
well....nearly 20 years....
and,
the very sad thing is that Steve Earle is
probably not going to come back
this way for some
while. It's hard to live with that
knowledge. YouTube is
great, the Cd's
are great...but, right now I could use some
revved up powerful live
music.
Hope
you come back
someday....soon....Steve....
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
pictures of Mark and the gang...
Okay, I am going to try my best to get these pictures to show...this is the second time I've done this, so there are no promises...but, please remember you are working with someone whose brain is not fuctioning on all tracks these days....
Mark Jungers Comes to Minneapolis.....
Well....first off, let me apologize to Mark and Company for waiting so long to post this bit. I have no really good excuse, probably it has a lot to do with laziness and the dull drag of the summer....but, here goes...
In July, Mark Jungers and his fellers came to Minneapolis and played the 331 Club in that fair city. Mark is a terrific musician who reminded me a little of Steve Earle (who else?) and Jerry Jeff Walker other fellows who occupy big places in my musical heart. Mark's style is Americana, I hope I am getting that correct, and real easy to listen to while drinking a tall cool one. Okay, I don't do that anymore (they frown on that in AA) but it was still a grand evening, sitting in that little club, like lots of the ones I used to frequent a hundred years ago when I was working on little newspapers in Texas, and hearing music that has the sound of the Texas hill country. Growing up in that part of the world was the best thing that could happen to any Texas native, in my little opinion, and the 70s and 80s were the best time to be anywhere near Austin, Texas, or Bridgeport, Texas, or Gainesville, Texas....well, you get that line......
I was able to talk with Mark before their set began. As fate would have it, Mark and his lovely wife live right down the road from my Daddy and his wife, in the sparkling burg of Martindale, Texas. Small world....my Daddy had been telling me about Mark for months, but, it would seem he didn't mention that he had a daughter living in Minnesota. Fate would further have it that Mark is a native of this North Star State (Minnesota)....that, to me, is incredible. We changed places, I reckon, on the map (but I wish I still lived in Texas, Martindale or Tow or Muleshoe or Mission...sigh.
Mark was wonderful and it was all I could do to pull myself away from the club and drive back home. I really hope they get up here again, I've told some friends about his wonderful sound and they would like to be at his gig, too. Who wouldn't? He is really a grand singer.....
If you ever get a chance.......well, you know....I post pictures of Mark and Company from his web site. I never remember to take a camera with me....
In July, Mark Jungers and his fellers came to Minneapolis and played the 331 Club in that fair city. Mark is a terrific musician who reminded me a little of Steve Earle (who else?) and Jerry Jeff Walker other fellows who occupy big places in my musical heart. Mark's style is Americana, I hope I am getting that correct, and real easy to listen to while drinking a tall cool one. Okay, I don't do that anymore (they frown on that in AA) but it was still a grand evening, sitting in that little club, like lots of the ones I used to frequent a hundred years ago when I was working on little newspapers in Texas, and hearing music that has the sound of the Texas hill country. Growing up in that part of the world was the best thing that could happen to any Texas native, in my little opinion, and the 70s and 80s were the best time to be anywhere near Austin, Texas, or Bridgeport, Texas, or Gainesville, Texas....well, you get that line......
I was able to talk with Mark before their set began. As fate would have it, Mark and his lovely wife live right down the road from my Daddy and his wife, in the sparkling burg of Martindale, Texas. Small world....my Daddy had been telling me about Mark for months, but, it would seem he didn't mention that he had a daughter living in Minnesota. Fate would further have it that Mark is a native of this North Star State (Minnesota)....that, to me, is incredible. We changed places, I reckon, on the map (but I wish I still lived in Texas, Martindale or Tow or Muleshoe or Mission...sigh.
Mark was wonderful and it was all I could do to pull myself away from the club and drive back home. I really hope they get up here again, I've told some friends about his wonderful sound and they would like to be at his gig, too. Who wouldn't? He is really a grand singer.....
If you ever get a chance.......well, you know....I post pictures of Mark and Company from his web site. I never remember to take a camera with me....
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Steve in Duluth
Well, okay, these pictures are probably not the best ever taken of Steve Earle, but considering we weren't even supposed to be using flash cameras, they came out pretty good. I stopped taking them after this really big Security guy came around, and I am really sorry if I blinded Steve even for a minute, but I had to get the pictures....how could I ever live with myself if I never saw him again??? So, thanks, Steve, for understanding...
Steve and Allison in Duluth, July 19
Okay, now how far would you drive to see the singer you have loved for over 20 years...I reckon folks have driven long ways for that. July 19 a friend and I drove a 340 mile round trip to see Steve and Allison in Duluth, MN. If possible, that show as better than the one in Minneapolis in March...and that one was incredible..They were at St. Scholastica College's Mitchell Auditorium, the sound was incredible and we were lucky enough to have gotten front row center seats.
I have a feeling a lot of the folks there were season ticket holders to the College's concert/play programs. They were quiet, very polite and there wasn't much hoopin' and hollerin'....but I kept the front row noticed. It's kinda hard to act like that when you are 10 feet from the singer, but I can't help it. Steve's music is magic to me and I really can't stay in my seat.
I am in my tenth month of sobriety now, ten months have passed with one Vicodin or one drop of tequila. So far, I would say there hasn't been one day of pure peace, some days are not as bad as others, some are worse than most. I hear it takes a year and a half to get back to "normal" but I am not even sure what that would be at this point.
So, I follow Steve and his music around as much as I can. He sang a lot of the old favorites, the ones that, I confess, still bring me the most comfort, remind me most of the good times in Texas when I was younger and things really seemed possible.
We didn't get to see him after the show, granted, I did plead with the feller at the tour bus to let us have just one minute....but, no deal...I can't imagine what it's like to have people want you to sign your name to something, that kind of appreciation and love. I feel like a groupie definitely at times like that....
If I were able to speak with him at any real length, I would tell him "thank you for sharing your gifts and helping those of us who struggle with their own demons to make it through another day."
Steve and Allison are coming back to Minneapolis on September 1 for a Labor Day rally..ha, the same day the Republicans get together to discuss whatever Republicans discuss! I'm sure that day was not chose at random!
I will be there.....early....maybe I can say hello and thanks then.
God bless Steve Earle..
I have a feeling a lot of the folks there were season ticket holders to the College's concert/play programs. They were quiet, very polite and there wasn't much hoopin' and hollerin'....but I kept the front row noticed. It's kinda hard to act like that when you are 10 feet from the singer, but I can't help it. Steve's music is magic to me and I really can't stay in my seat.
I am in my tenth month of sobriety now, ten months have passed with one Vicodin or one drop of tequila. So far, I would say there hasn't been one day of pure peace, some days are not as bad as others, some are worse than most. I hear it takes a year and a half to get back to "normal" but I am not even sure what that would be at this point.
So, I follow Steve and his music around as much as I can. He sang a lot of the old favorites, the ones that, I confess, still bring me the most comfort, remind me most of the good times in Texas when I was younger and things really seemed possible.
We didn't get to see him after the show, granted, I did plead with the feller at the tour bus to let us have just one minute....but, no deal...I can't imagine what it's like to have people want you to sign your name to something, that kind of appreciation and love. I feel like a groupie definitely at times like that....
If I were able to speak with him at any real length, I would tell him "thank you for sharing your gifts and helping those of us who struggle with their own demons to make it through another day."
Steve and Allison are coming back to Minneapolis on September 1 for a Labor Day rally..ha, the same day the Republicans get together to discuss whatever Republicans discuss! I'm sure that day was not chose at random!
I will be there.....early....maybe I can say hello and thanks then.
God bless Steve Earle..
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