Wow, a neat bunch of photos from the show we played in Appleton. The venue was beautiful, as you can see, and they gave us great sound to match. This was a fundraiser for the Fox Cities Book Festival. Thank you to everyone who sold out those seats!
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Photo From the Road
Thank you to everyone who attended the recent Long Beds shows. Next one is in Appleton (combo of music and storytelling). Here’s a photo from the Sheboygan show, sent by Jason:
Long Beds Concert Photos
I never forget that the books, the typing, the attention to words in my little room all alone is what keeps this ramshackle thing of mine afloat. But barring Oprah or a blockbuster, my little family also survives through what your big-shot financial adviser types refer to as diversification. In our case diversification includes t-shirt sales, speaking events, one-man shows, home canning, chickens, and my wife’s work as a translator and language instructor.
And, making music with the Long Beds. Among the singular privileges of my life (is singular privileges an oxymoron?), I rank sharing the stage with musicians (defined as someone who knows more than just three chords and flubs his own lyrics) as a Top Ten for sure. So when photographer Dick Ainsworth was kind enough to share an album of photographs from a show we did in Spring Green last year, I figured it would be a chance to say thanks to the Beds. And I think you will agree, Mr. Ainsworth is good with that camera.
So. Apropos of nothing more than gratitude to my band, here is the work of Dick Ainsworth:
Did Not Fly the Coop
The wind is still freight-training, so I’m not sayin’ we’re in the clear, but I did wake up three times last night to peer out of the window to see if the chicken coop (which is mounted on the running gear from an old haywagon) was still upright, and it was, and is now in the daylight. I was worried, because when I was in there at dusk, she was just a-rockin’. It was parked broadside to the wind and the rain had left the ground too soupy to move it. So, as the blurry rain-whipped cellphone photo below demonstrates, I took measures…
That’s a ground anchor, a boomer, and the chain from my deer-skinner.
Pictures from France
I’ve done several posts about the 2009 Red Power Parade (perhaps because I got to be grand marshal of a parade consisting of nothing but International Harvesters…surely a Top Ten country boy moment) (as a result of this book), and here’s another one inspired by an email I just received from Jean Cointe, an International Harvester dealer and aficionado from France. Seems Jean was clearing out his digital camera and found these two photos:
Fearless leader “Other Mike” reviews the parade route.
You may be the Grand Marshal, but when the Scout runs dry halfway through the parade, you will bail out and push just like everybody else!
More Photos From Phoenix Park
Thanks to John Connell, who has put up a Flickr album of the recent Cadence/Meridene/Long Beds show down to Phoenix Park. It was warm, and I was wearing my New Auburn Area Fire Department sleeveless T. We had fun, because as the photo below (taken while Meridene was playing) demonstrates, this thing is like a giant family picnic.
Sweatin’ at the Mousetrap
After me and them Long Beds finished up at Phoenix Park the other night, we set up and played loud at the Mousetrap. Mike O’Brien shot some photos and now they’re viewable over on the Volume One site.
Man, it was hot in there. Thank goodness I brought not one but two New Auburn Area Fire Department sleeveless t-shirts!
As the photo below reveals, I am a singer of great sensitivity:
Pictures from Big Top Chautauqua
Thank you for having me, Big Top! And thank to everyone … sound, costumes, stagehands, more people than I can properly mention…who keeps the tent pitched and the show running.
Photos here. Those Schwam‘s man shorts were a tad…snug.
Photo credits: Jamey Penney-Ritter.
Thank you Organic Valley
Just in the door from the Kickapoo Country Fair, where I read in the Word Tent, and played a blistering hot (because of the sun, not my guitar-picking) set of music with the Long Beds. Thank you, thank you to all who showed up. Great fun and friendly folk at every turn.
An especially big organic thank you to Dane and the Organic Valley crew and volunteers. The effort they put into this is prodigious, and we got to do the fun part.
And thanks to Charlene, who snapped and posted a couple of pics from the Word Tent. And the Long Beds show.
Oh, and howdy to all the ladies on stilts…
You Working on a New Book?
I am. More than one, as a matter of fact. More on that in time. As the photo below demonstrates, there is still a ways to go before anything gets slapped between two covers:
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