Category: travel
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It has been over two months since my last blog and it’s hard to believe. When I last wrote I spoke about tea arriving at my Dad’s and how I would be taking mugshots along the way on my travels. My UK tour finished on November 19 and it was a fab time indeed. Funky…
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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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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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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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Jeni Hankins and I are camping at the Stephen Foster State Park and we’ve written three new songs. One about a bug that casts a shadow of a horse, one about a Maryland horse racetrack, and one about Jeni’s grandmother, Mawmaw Margie. During the day the carillon, the world’s largest tubular bell instrument, plays some…
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Here’s a tune I composed while I visited Jeni Hankins’ grandmother, Maw Maw, in Jewell Ridge, Virginia. Maw Maw has a bunch of apple trees and they had dropped a bunch of fruit and it made the bees very happy. This is a work in progress but I wanted to try uploading something for a…
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