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Last year I wrote an early January blogpost and I thought I would do another one this year that has turned into an early February post. Last year I wrote about Jeni & Billy, tea, my high school best friend, Cotton and some of my instruments. Quickly I’ll mention that I did some solo touring…
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December has arrived and the backyard here at Artland in Nashville is filling up with wet leaves. The rains have also arrived. We’ve been in a bit of a drought which has been unusual and everyone is thankful for the rain. Last December in 2015 I wrote a short poem about the leaves after having…
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Earlier this year in June I was in the UK touring with Jeni & Billy. On June 16 I read the news about the passing of Don Young. Don was the co-founder of the National Resophonic Guitar Company which started making guitars in 1989. Jeni and I got to meet Don in 2010 in San…
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Good morning! It’s Thursday, October 6, and I am in the Natural State of Arkansas. I camped last night in the Toad Suck Recreation Area and Campground http://www.arkansas.com/attractions/detail/toad-suck-recreation-area-campground/94004 near Conway, Arkansas where I will be playing a concert tonight at the Faulkner County Library. http://conway.fcl.org/events/page/774/billy-kemp-in-concert-conway. Jeni and I have stayed here many times and always…
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Edgar Cayce said that if you eat three almonds a day your health will be better. Earl Scruggs popularized the banjo with a three finger picking style. And the Golden Biscuit Hour is hosted by three music purveyors. The list could go on. But I want to write about something I heard and observed on…
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January 2016 Early January usually has me thinking about the year ahead for Jeni & Billy, which tea to drink, my high school friend Cotton who’s birthday is on January 7th, and stringing up instruments with new strings. This year is no exception. Jeni and I headed to Florida on January 14 to play seven…
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I am a fan of recording devices, musical instruments, musicians, singers, songs, and new music. I became a fan of these things from the first time I saw or heard them. For example, my paternal grandfather was an attorney who practiced law from the 1930s until the 1970s. Early in his practice he used a…
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The year was nineteen seventy-one. A former mailman from Illinois released an album on Atlantic records, self-titled, John Prine. The songs were narrative — filled with empathy for his characters. Sam Stone, the drug addicted veteran; Hello In There, a song about aging; and Paradise, the town that was taken away by the coal company.…
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I read on my Baltimore Sun app this morning that Al “Madman” Baitch died on March 24th at the age of 89. He was one of the great Baltimore club and concert musicians who played for nearly seventy years. His instrument was the saxophone. I had to call my Dad to let him know because…
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Last Saturday night, Jeni Hankins and I played in San Antonio, Florida, at a house concert series called the Garage Mahal. The hosts, Rochelle and Norman, were just the greatest. Rochelle is a yoga instructor and told me a story about a woman who did not hear so well. At the end of her yoga…
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