WHAT ARE YOU LISTENING TO NOW?

[edwardofhuncote]

The name is apparently a wild coincidence, Coz, but I had wondered the same thing... a mandolin master-builder and a master player sharing an unusual surname? It just works. She played a Gilchrist for a while too. No direct relationship.


Forest and I had a guitar player in common, another weird coincidence. Brad "Buster B." Jones. He lived and worked here in Roanoke/Salem area for a while back in the early 90's, and recorded at the same studio I did often, so of course I knew him. Occasionally we played some. There is still a Memorial to Brad at Fret Mill Music. I only got fired once from there... Brad got canned at least three times. Forest had some great road stories about him, and was thinking about a book.

*I am enjoying the Bill Purcell while on a Sunday Sanity Stroll.

[David Houck]

Thanks for the Sierra Hull.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Morgan James: 

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Dan Tyminski put together another band last year; within it is one of my favorite stage personalities and mandolin players rolled into one hilarious and talented package. Adam Steffey and Dan go way back, as he explains here:

[edwardofhuncote]

In a rare, weird turn of circumstances, I'm watching other people work this evening. My days' work is basically done, except for sending reports. But my office is tore up. So I'm watching YouTube in my truck while HVAC and Air Compressor repair folks do their thing.


I'm really liking the pocket Danny's latest group has developed. This is the most interesting thing to hit the modern bluegrass scene in a while. For whatever my opinion means.


Modern Day Jezebel-

They Called Him G.O.A.T.-

[edwardofhuncote]

How I got from the Dan Tyminski Band to Bruce Hornsby & The Range might seem like a golfball teed-off in a tile bathroom... that's just how it works sometimes. Maybe it's the reference to natural disasters that made me remember The Red Plains. Bruce Hornsby actually won a Grammy for best bluegrass album one time, and ticked off a few of the dyed-in-the-wool crowd who didn't know that much about him. He used to come to the Fiddlers Convention in Galax every year, but never brought his piano along. They mighta' cut him some slack if he had.

[cozmik_cowboy]

12/31/78: 

Can't believe it's been 26 years; miss you, Jer.

Peter

[lbpesq]

You said it, brother.

Sure do miss the man.

Bill, tgo

[cozmik_cowboy]

The show ain't over 'til the Fat Man melts!

Peter

[edwardofhuncote]

Can't believe it's been 26 years; miss you, Jer.

Peter

I actually remember where I was when we heard, Aug. 9th, 1995... we were all at the Fiddlers Convention in Galax. Instantly, spontaneous musical tributes to Jerry went out from the competitions at the Main Stage.

Yeah, hard to believe it has been that long though.

[cozmik_cowboy]

Can't believe it's been 26 years; miss you, Jer.

Peter

I actually remember where I was when we heard, Aug. 9th, 1995... we were all at the Fiddlers Convention in Galax. Instantly, spontaneous musical tributes to Jerry went out from the competitions at the Main Stage.

Yeah, hard to believe it has been that long though.

Driving a truck.  95th & Western, Chicago.  WXRT-FM announced it.  Had to pull over for about 30 minutes.

Peter

[lbpesq]

A recently ex-girlfriend called and woke me up with the news.   I’m not one for “heros”, but I had two people in my life I considered my heros.   Jerry was one of them.   Four days later, on August 13th,  I had just left my home, appropriately dressed in tie-dye,  to drive to Golden Gate Park for the memorial when I turned on the radio and heard that my other hero, Mickey Mantle, had passed away.   I turned around, drove home and grabbed a Yankee cap.

Bill, tgo

[edwardofhuncote]

I was at this show in Bristol with my buddy Tony, when Tony Rice sent this one out to Jerry.

The circle is very, very small.

[cozmik_cowboy]

What more can  say? 

[pauldo]

Saw Warren with his acoustic in Milwaukee… the silence when he performed that song was deafening.
Beautiful tribute to a beautiful soul.