Here we are on the road in beautiful Goldendale, Washington. The festival folks were nice enough to furnish a few motel rooms with internet access so I can keep everyone up to date with Prairie Flyer. And I know you want to kept up to date.
We played our set last night as the sun was expiring in the western sky and the temperature was dropping, although not to an uncomfortable level. I hung around for a short while then came back to the room and watched TV. The glamourous life of a bluegrass musician. Of course, I don’t know what anyone else did but I haven’t seen anyone stirring and it’s 10 am. But as it usually goes I was awake at around 5. Just once I would like to sleep in but I guess it’s not in my genetic makeup-must be those Okie genes.

This afternoon we go play at the hardware store that is sponsoring our appearance at this festival-that would Allyn’s Hardware in Goldendale, WA. I ran by this morning and found it accidentally so we’ll pack our stuff down there and play for awhile.

I’m sitting here listening to Pink Floyd, which is what I’m sure all the big-time bluegrass pickers do when they are stuck in a motel room. “The Wall”, which, if you have not seen the movie, is about a rock musician on the road and all the craziness associated with that. It’s an appropriate piece of music to be listening to in my present lonely mood.

That’s all for now.
Jim

Just an update on the new project. We are finished with the recording process and now we are in the throes of mastering and the art work. I guess I might as well post the titles here but they may or may not necessarily appear in this order:

Longin’ In My Heart
Old Uncle Bill
But I Don’t Have You
Train 45
San Pedro Bar
Summon Down the Demons
Sing Me Back Home
Snowin’ On Raton
I’ll See You In Heaven
Sharecropper’s Son
Roll On
Alhambra

The title of the CD will be Roll On from an instrumental written by Andre and most of the songs were written by us with a few covers thrown in for good measure.

Like always, I will try to be more faithful about writing but hey, I’m busy.

Happy Trails,
Jim