Meeting Steve in Texas!!!

Well, here's the picture of the century...for me anyway......getting to meet Steve Earle after his show in New Braunsfels, Texas.....a great night!!

Long no time see....

Wow, I can't believe how long it's been since I posted to this blog.....well, sorry....long story and I'm sure folks have other things to do.....

We just got back to Minneapolis after spending two weeks in Texas with my sister and her husband and were able to see Steve on his Townes tour. It was, of course, incredible. It was held at an amphitheater in New Braunsfels, Texas, actually not very far from where Steve grew up (Shertz, Texas), hotter than a Laredo whore, dusty and bugs the size of Buicks everywhere....Steve swatted at them and crunched them under his boots and gave his usual $500 worth of music for a $28.00 ticket. We were really close to the stage and I got to meet him afterwards, talked for about 45 seconds and played with Blue, his blue tick healer who travels with him on the bus. It was, for me, another night of magic....I'm going to be able to see him again on July 23rd here in Minneapolis, never can see too much of Steve Earle....so, I'm going to post a few pictures here and wish you all the best and hope you, too, are able to catch Steve on this Townes tour!!!!

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....

Just some pictures to warm the winter...

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....

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....