Sunday, Sunday….can’t trust that day:
“An empty bottle, a broken heart…and you’re still on my mind”…………………………………………………………………………………………………….Luke McDaniel
“Ooh, Eee, ride me high….tomorrow’s the day my brides gonna come”………………………………………………………………………………………..Bob Dylan
“ Some say that I’m an outlaw, some say that I’m a thief…but here’s a Christmas dinner for the families on relief”……………………Woody Guthrie
Oh what week it’s been….the Bunty band made the annual pilgrimage to the Greens and did the mountain music scene nonstop for six days….the absolute joy of having a house full of Bunties, and an endless array of jams, communal meals, walks in the woods…and a distillery collection of spirits.
All presided over by the hostess with the mostest….THE Queen of Mt. Holly, who worked from dawn to midnight to keep The Inn in tip top shape and the food and fun flowing……
The Nave and Lucy’s BFF, Rosie-Posey, arrived on Sunday night….so Monday and Tuesday were devoted to early preparations and long walks on dirt roads…Al, Lloyd and Mitch all arrived on Tuesday and our long lost brother/bandmate, Phil (Feel) arrived on Wednesday…thus completing the circle….and providing us with a chock full house of testosterone for the week………
The music this week was the culmination of an eight month odyssey that began when Nave, Feel and I met up in Baltimore last December to go to Bethesda to catch the 50th anniversary tour of the Byrds celebrating their 1968 seminal Sweetheart of the Rodeo album. We were so moved by this experience, we decided we needed to replicate the album start to finish, note for note ..which we did twice this week…almost getting good at it…
The band, in one form or another, has been at it since 1978 (Really!) ..and we had all four original members (that were Steaks and Chops) here this week, when Brother Feel came up from his garden state homestead……….
Brother Al, our original (and forever) bass man, rejoined us this week , coming up from Florida where he has escaped to (leaving us without our foremost rock and back beat)….Al makes all the difference…
We played the local Music on the Green series for the third year on Thursday, joined by a local fiddle player extraordinaire, Bob the Fiddler, and folk club friends Marty and John on slide guitar and percussion….thus becoming the Sweetheart orchestra….all hosted by Jennifer….. our own Sweetheart of the Rodeo (catch her garb))…..when we put our CDs out for this, we will be using her image to replace the original cowgirl featured on the 1968 Byrds album cover…….
Friday we went back into the local TV studio and recorded the entire Sweetheart set….I will send out a link to this, once it is mixed and edited by the sound engineer, in the next few weeks… after two nights of practice and two days of shows we were spent on Friday night and all stayed home at the Inn to have pizza and lubricants….but Feel could not abide by the laziness, and pulled out his guitar around 10 pm…leading us through drunken transitions of some of old standards. Jenn posted some of these on Facebook ( “going viral”), and the link to this is here if you want to laugh your head off…..
https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipPZLALESymVfQnbm7XcXX_1z8gI3gBEUiIRpPVJiE5JeCeLwdnA6vrIqDLrLRyG3w?key=QVVTM3l2YXkxdzB1MGg2Z1pEM3JrS1N6ZDlod3Jn
On Saturday we hosted our 20th (or so) annual Tie-Dye Festival (third straight in Vermont)…and had a wide array of music, food, games and majestic Tie-Dyeing…..completed by the late night campfire…..
Now, with all but the Nave on their way back to points south and west…it’s time for cleanup, multiple naps and a matinee show in Weston this afternoon….closing an absolutely unforgettable week…
But…enough….they say that every picture tells a story…so I will let the attached photo display speak for itself…
Good Yontif…….Ferlin’
