With all due respect to those about to get whomped, this is from a couple years ago:
With all due respect to those about to get whomped, this is from a couple years ago:
Michael Perry and the Long Beds playing “After Waymore’s Blues” from the Tiny Pilot album. The nod to Billy partway through comes because when he’s not making music he carves headstones.
Over on Twitter, someone asked: “Where do kids in the great plains go sledding?? I’m getting really sad thinking about this.”
I responded with the following Public Service Announcement:
I usually don’t post pictures of my daughters (writing about them is enough invasion of their privacy) but enough time has passed on this one that I think it’s OK. She liked to lead the chickens around the yard, and they complied. This daughter and some of these chickens were also featured on the cover of Coop, the paperback version (see image below).
Also, the running gear beneath that coop is the same set I described in Visiting Tom. In the same book I wrote how my elder daughter and I camped out in the coop the night before we turned it over to the chickens.
Michael Perry and the Long Beds performing “Somewhere Out in Mudbrook” from the “Headwinded” album. Guitarist Chris Ramey drives a Subaru, thus the laugh. ALSO INCLUDED: A recitation featuring a rooster named Knuckles, gratuitous NPR reference, and a BONUS BANJO JOKE.
UPDATE: We’ve received questions, so here’s the deal: That thing Andy Dee (longtime friend and guest Long Bed…you can hear his work on Tiny Pilot) is playing on his lap is an acoustic Hawaiian steel guitar based on the Weissenborn instruments from the 1920s and ’30s. The most important feature of the Weissenborn instruments is the hollow neck, which adds to the volume and tone. The entire body of the instrument is one big sound chamber. Andy’s instrument has a deeper body than the original Weissenborns, so the bass frequencies are more pronounced.
Fellow out on tour asked me about the International Harvester parade video we made a while back. You can find it by clicking here.
A video here of me talking about Visiting Tom on morning TV. I ironed my shirt first. The swallowing is because my voice was acting up. Yes, Dr. H., I’m doing my exercises again.
I’m eager to get back home and actually visit Tom.
Man. Going through some old half-finished blog posts and came across this review of the Long Beds and me playing in 2009. You remember 2009? There’s a video clip, too, featuring a great fiddle (red hot electric violin, to be specific) solo by Molly. Molly will be joining us at the Big Top in September.
The thing is, I was sick as a dang dog that night.
Book tour is dominating these days but the band and I are playing one show soon. We’re proud to say we’ll be joined by Mary Cutrufello for that one.
Click here and you can see a bunch (although nowhere near all) of the Clodhopper Report (some from back when I had hair).
The Clodhopper Monologues? That was something different.
The new book will be out August 21. Here’s a peek: