One thing I have been neglectful is covering music that I have been to this year. Fact is I have not gone to any festivals or big name concerts this year, but I have caught a bunch of groups and individuals in the local scene, both in Lexington and even more so in Danville. There are only a handful of places to catch music in Danville and of those most of them have pretty bad acoustics. That being what it is, my favorite place is at Joe’s Fourth Street Deli and Tap Room. Given that, what I really wanted to mention was local groups… and at the top of that list is no surprise, Frankly Scarlet! Check them out by the way at Joe’s on this Saturday eve, January 2nd, 2010!
Okay, I admit right off the bat that maybe this is not the best of times for me to be behind the keyboard. I have had a few stiff bourbons and having exhausted that I have moved on to lesser things like improvised margaritas. That being said though, I have something on my mind, and found it mostly expressed in a few songs, on in particular. A country-ish song from a few years ago, well now that I think on it, a LOT of years ago. That aside though, there is a song entitled “You Just Get One…,” the lyrics of which include, “You just get one true love.”
A few weeks ago I posted a rather bit of a rant on one of my other blogs about how the History Channel really had little to offer any more in the regards of actual history. You can read that over on Eligius and specifically at the post NOT-History Channel. Anyway, the point is I have rediscovered an old friend in PBS. I used to be a PBS junkie prior to the explosion of things like Discovery and History channels on cable/satellite networks. My recent reentry into the PBS world with the National Parks has had me making a much greater effort at what is available.
I had seen this play back in the spring at the Norton Center for the Arts on the lovely campus of Centre here in Danville. I had decided, after so many months had passed, just a few days ago to not write this blog/review and instead focus on other things. Then however, as is serendipitous as can be, I get an email notification of it playing at the Opera House in Lexington, Kentucky. I then felt I needed to make some light mention of it, as I know a few friends would definitely enjoy it.
Sometime last fall/winter (though I actually started writing this in the early morning hours of the actual night of the concert), I had tickets to see what I think is one of the greatest things to come out of the country music scene in a LONG time. Yeah Joey & Rory, of CMT’s Can You Duet fame as well as those really great Overstock.com commercials that were especially active during the Christmas holiday season so recently passed. I almost nearly stumbled into the tickets, having caught a glimpse of the flier a week or two prior, I purchased tickets immediately without even knowing who I would get to go with me for sure. If you have a chance anytime soon it is well worth the $15.00 I paid for tickets to see this awesome duo live and in person.
The List is the name of Rosanne Cash’s latest effort. The album itself is about twelve or so songs (depends on format and bonus tracks) of historical importance and significance in especially country music. Some of them are very similar to some traditional versions of the songs and others have a completely new slant and direction that Rosanne takes them in, including several that are done as duos with several folks one would not suspect. The most interesting thing though, is where the songs and indeed, the album name comes from – her father, Johnny.
I started this several days back and for whatever reason I did not get it finished. I did make a few notes about the rest of my random thoughts and thought I would put those here quickly and go with it. Those of who read here on a regular basis know that I am not to much on putting together random thoughts, but some of these just seemed to be begging to get out now without becoming a full enough thought for a blog entry. Besides, I have over fifty drafts here in Wordpress and several more between my note card book and a file stored on my desktop (keep coming back the rest of this month, but really be looking for November in regards to those posts by the way). And of course, my favorite, a list is so appropriate for this kind of thought process.
I know I am on a technology kick here the last few post and I have a couple of more that I may mention here in the near future as well. A few months ago, I was contemplating buying a second Zune (or some other kind of MP3 playing device) because at 4GB capacity my current one only holds about one eighth of my total music collection and of course. The expense of the item and hearing rumblings of a new model coming out deterred me at the time, but I had another idea at the time that I thought was even better.
Two Week Daytimer
Posted in: Green-Living, Life, Movies, Music | Posted by: rcornish | Comments: 2 | Date: 14 September, 2009
That should probably really say two week night and weekend timer, but that seems like a mouthful. Seems an odd thing to blog about, but at least more then a few of these I want a bunch of other people to come out and have at least half as good of a time as I plan on having. So, I thought it prudent to just post what it is that is coming up that I plan to attend, where and when it is, and what my general expectations are of the matter. Met up with me at your own risk of course…
Over the weekend I had the opportunity to see a concert that I had been trying to catch for sometime and the stars finally alligned in heavens correctly for it to occur. Willie Nelson played a show at the summer outdoor concert series at Horseshoe Casino and Resort over in Indiana just across the river from Louisville. It was a perfect ending to a good early summer day that had started with the afternoon at Churchill Downs, later watching the Belmont and realizing I had the winner and the trifecta, and then the playing and singing to one hit song after another of Willie in the outside air as the sun slowly set behind the hills to our west.
