Stone City-Tribute For The Departed

Fox On The Run (For Tom T Hall)

Good Time Charlie Got The Blues

I Fought The Law

When Will I Be Loved (For Don Everly)

Cheating Songs

Cinnamon Girl (For Kyle Oyloe)

With Carl Meiners.

Yesterday was Kyle Oyloe's birthday.  Julie told me about it was his birthday but it was on my timeline of things popping up.https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/154197142/kyle-dean-oyloe

While Julie had her gig with Dave, I promised that I would find a song that would honor him and chose Cinnamon Girl  I barely knew Kyle when I came back to the music scene, and probably looking back, it might have been Julie that convinced him to add me as a friend six weeks before he passed away.  He would have been 52.  And still would be with Jules.   

We connected at Rumors during the Honey Badgers Jam, but Julie n I never knew each other very well. I never thought we would connect later on,   I did jam a bit with Kyle one more time on a couple songs, but I still couldn't find my groove very well and I think people looked at me as an imposter.   Perhaps Jules still looks at me as a chameleon but four years on, we'll still around each other.

I didn't really want to do any drumming today, so I stayed close to home and did a fairly simple six song segment, including a faithful bluegrass version of Tom T Hall's cover of Fox On The Run, one of the best all time blue grass numbers not written by Tom T.  He wrote lots of classic songs, some that Dave Dudley covered (Mad) as well.  Faster Horses, Sneaky Snake, Shoeshine Boy, That's How I Got To Memphis (covered by Pinicon Drift last night) and Everything From Jack Daniels to Jesus.  He could do it all.  When Will I Be Loved was dedicated to Don Everly who died Friday.  Haven't done that one in a couple years and it sounded like it.  All of the songs I knew the words to and didn't need the songbook.   Carl followed me and I played guitar off stage. 

Lane Gaffney hosted the open mic, and the first time I chatted with him in over a year.  I didn't have to worry about helping out Kat Blue, Lane accomplices  her on the KT Turnstull number (I hated that song anyway).  But I didn't share the stage with her.  Which Julie could sleep better at night knowing that.  Strange.  I did waved and said hello to her on stage but it's odd that we were a team for Thursday Night, hosting the Checker's jam and become strangers three days later.

It's not right, but I'm used to it. 

Rumors didn't need me, they had plenty of drummers to back Terry up, Herm Sarduy, Mike Lint, D J Hovenstot and Rick Wingle were there to help out.   Billy Bourbon is getting very good at taking them photos and posting them.  I'm still waiting to see who took any of the Cabin Jam photos. 

Ron LeFleur is moving back to the East Coast to help care for his ailing father.