Category: travel
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Greetings from Liberty. Live music is returning to public places. It certainly never left here at our home. The guitars and banjos have been picked, plucked and strummed on most days since the middle of March last year. They have helped deliver new songs, tunes and twangs. But much of the homebound music making is…
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Greetings from Liberty. The world just keeps getting smaller and smaller. At a recent show in Ft. Myers, Florida, I met a couple who were visiting from Baltimore. We had a lovely chat after the show and spoke of the songs I had performed from my Another Life record about people, places and reminiscences from my…
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Muddy Waters recorded a song called Deep Down In Florida and part of the lyric says, “where the sun shines nearly everyday.” Well, today it is not shining here in the Panhandle, but we’re dry inside our motel room. Sometimes a rainy day can be just the thing. I am catching up on email and…
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Greetings everyone, Thoughts and words coming from Miramar Beach between Panama City and Destin, closer to Destin. Sue and I are here in these parts for four days. Thanks to a good friend, Lawrence Bertoldi, we had/have a couple of gigs. The first gig was last night, February 3 at the 30A Songwriter Radio Music…
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It’s another West Coast Tour getting underway or overway. I was talking with Sue about how many times I’ve travelled west to California by way of interstate driving and I came up with the number ten. Truck stops, rest areas, wind turbines and donut shops out here on the prairie. Today we’re making our way…
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Back in Tennessee Going to Britain in May was much warmer than on our last tour in November of 2017, which was a chilly one. I toured Britain five or six times, always in May, and had wanted to try a different time of the year. I remember one night on the November 2017 tour…
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Here we go with the third installment of words and pics from my Smiles and Miles Mugshot 2017 UK tour in Oct and Nov. I’m writing from Nashville on an early Spring morning, having just finished some yoga. I’m sipping some Guayusa tea to get my motor running, sitting on the futon watching the change of…
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Friday, April 6, 2018. Sue and I arrived in Santa Fe, New Mexico to stay with Sue’s Aunt Jane. Jane is Sue’s Mom’s sister. She lives in an adobe style home just outside of the city. It is Friday night and we have driven from Ft. Stockton, Texas. We had dinner and great conversation as…
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We’re twenty seven miles from Roswell. We’re either gonna fill up or beam up. The state roads heading north and south are straight and long. Towns separated by thirty or forty miles. In Red, our Volkswagen, we are a minority. The road is traveled by mostly trucks, semis and pick-ups.
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Pub singing in England is the combination of song and/or tune and ale consumption. It truly lifts the spirit whether you partake in the ale or not. The Mortal Man is typical in that the ceilings are low with exposed beams, a stone floor and mahogany everywhere including my guitar.
Billy Kemp 