singer/songwriter:

Pearl

she's nearing on two years old. just in case you've never seen the video i made a while back this is your introduction to the animal we call pearl.

Can't a guy just drink a beer at work while driving a skyjack?

Promise of the Real

So I knew that Willie Nelson had several kids. I was unaware that he had a 21 year old son that was playing Leno tonight and is a pretty damn good blues player. Willie Nelson is one of my all time favorite musicians, singers, and guitar players. Even if his son was a crappy musician living off his dad's coat tails I'm pretty sure I would be a fan. But this kid is talented. Lukas Nelson is his name. The Promise of the Real is his band. I've just discovered him myself about 30 minutes ago. Listening to him sing you can tell he's Willie Nelsons son. Watching him play guitar you can tell he was influenced by Jimi Hendrix, and SRV among others. My favorite guitar player of all time is Mr. Stevie Ray. So I just discovered the son of my favorite singer can play guitar with a SRV vibe at times. He's coming to Austin in February. I think i'm going to have to be there. Here's some of the clips I watched. and his myspace page has some tunes you can listen too also. http://www.myspace.com/promiseofthereal

Mr. Brown comes to town

Since about 1998 i've been listening to Greg Brown. He is a musician I believe originally from Iowa. His songs are incredible and his voice is one of a kind. He is one of those artists that you have to see live. Once you do you will be a fan for life. I was already a fan and was able to see him a year or two ago at the Cactus Cafe. He is returning in two weeks. It was an amazing show last time and I've been spending the last couple days trying to come up with a good reason not to go again. It was cold then and should be cold now. He sounds the best when it's cold outside. Since the experience is worth more then money I can't come up with one.

As my wife and a couple lucky friends can attest if you go to a show with me you tend to get there early. When we saw Mr. Brown before we got there early and got an awesome seat right up at the front. I would have to say it was well worth it. I've gotten better about getting to places early lately, but I had been waiting for 10 plus years to see Greg play live so I was going to be there early regardless.

Greg Brown is one of those artists that has a limitless amount of songs. I had been listening to him for over 10 years and purchased several albums along the way. My Library of his songs consist of about 40 songs or so. At the show I attended he played maybe 5 out of 20 plus songs I recognized. And they were all good. He started the show by playing a song called "Laughing River" which I had never heard and has since became one of my favorite songs. He told a story about how he was out at a recording studio that day with Robert Earl Keen and he was going to record it (and did) so it was fresh on his mind. Turns out the studio he was at was The Zone recording studio which is right were my wife and I got married, and I've been to several times.

After the show as we were walking to our car there was a man sitting by himself outside in the cold smoking a cigarette. Turns out it was Mr. Greg Brown himself. I couldn't help it and struck up about a 1 min. conversation with him trying my best not to be awkward. I'm pretty sure I pulled it off. He couldn't have been a nicer guy and hopefully I'll make it back out to see him.

There were not many quality videos of him that I could find but here's a couple to check out if you are interested.

all these songs below I had never heard until today.

I like weather whether you do or not

I'm studying for a test right now and came across this video. It's basically a years worth of weather at a park in the Rocky Mountains. I hope to one day aspire to be able to make something like this. It only took a year (plus however long it took to edit) to make. Probably a thousand or so or more dollars worth of equipment at least. I think I can swing that.........once I get a job and have that thing that I keep hearing people talk about.....what is it called?

oh yeah...... Money.

A trip down a river

Took a camping trip down the Brazos River back in early October. Finally was able to get the video I took put together. I suggest to everyone to take this trip. We paddled something like 22 miles or so starting just below Possum Kingdom. I didn't see any possum. There were a lot of bees though.

a day in my shoes

So I had just finished writing a 40 page research paper on the American Southwest. I learned to much to remember. After turning it in I had the melody of this song called Excuses by The Morning Benders stuck in my head. I played it in my head as i was walking away from class. I wanted to share......

on a side note I got the Iphone 4 on my birthday. I made this video with my new phone.

The Legend of The Tyler Rose

Well football season is starting to get into the meat of the season. Usually it's around this time of year that I sit down and look up my favorite football power run I've ever seen. This year was no different. What is different is normally the only video I could find of it cut off at the end and the video quality was really really bad. I've still never seen anything like this. If you have please let me know. Ya see what had happened was........ Earl Campbell hits a poor Rice defender just inside the 5 yard line and propels him into the end-zone. You would not want to get in the was of this guy in his prime.





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Keeping the music alive

So there's this band that I have been wanting to go see for over a year now. Deadman is their name. They play often at the Saxon Pub, which is one of my favorite bars. The timing has worked out so I have yet to catch them. I have, however, looked them up on youtube to see what the buzz is about. I dig it. They remind me of that one band....what was their name? oh yeah...The Band. I love it when new bands get together and takes cues from an older genre of music that you don't get to hear that much anymore. Of course Deadman is different then The Band. Which makes them even better. (i'm not saying they are better then The Band) They make their own music and it's a breath of fresh air. Which is something I love about Austin. There are so many great bands and musicians playing on any given night of the week. Another good band in the same vein as Deadman is a band called Slowtrain. I would suggest checking out both bands if you can. Here's some clips from Deadman to check out. (couldn't find any recent ones from Slowtrain, here's a link to their myspace link: http://www.myspace.com/slowtrainmusic )

link to Deadman: http://deadmanonline.com/

I actually just saw that Deadman is playing on my birthday at the Saxon. hmmmmm......probably a late show and the wife has to work the next day so i don't see it happening....but maybe?








Some words from the front man of Deadman I found interesting:


"Current music lacks significance. some people would call it substance but it's really significance. Because you have substance in modern songs, but you don't have the significance of why they should exist. And when the balance is thrown off the struggle is success over significance. But you can't have success without significance...you can have it... but you can't have true success without significance. That's like the cart before the horse. In today's times we see a struggling music industry, we see a struggling economy and I think the result is you've got everybody grasping for success, but they are forgetting the significance of what they do. And that may be in music, that may be in banking, that may be in the auto industry. And when that goes awry you have problems."
---Steven Collins of Deadman