Musings

Well, lookee what showed up yesterday! Big thanks to Jeremy Darby up in Canada for helping me procure this RCA BK-10A microphone from the legendary microphone guru Doug Walker, who recently decided to sell his collection.

Kyle Eldridge will be receiving his new doubleneck TNM Custom guitar from Terry McArthur (Jody Maphis is going to be there, too!).

He found out I was a guitar player, and we talked about jazz guitar giant Kenny Burrell. Somehow the subject of Miles Davis came up…

The beginning of the Mos-Rite guitar company, 1955: Semie Moseley, gifted teenage guitarist, performs as part of Reverend Ray Boatright’s Pentacostal Gospel Crusade.

Jerry Case toured and recorded with the very last version of Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. He’s lived out here in the San Fernando Valley for the last thirty-five years, and none of us knew it.

Emir had never been to Bakersfield, and he loves the Bakersfield-sound country stuff, so we hopped in the car and drove up. We did a lot of stuff in a few hours!!

The Whippersnappers and I got to the top of Dobbins Lookout in South Phoenix just before sunset, hoping to shoot some photos in the archway to use for artwork on our next album.

Today was a fun day, performing at the historic Shrine Auditorium in downtown Los Angeles! It was…ummm…how shall I put this? Perhaps THE most bizarre gig I’ve ever played (and I’ve played a LOT of bizarre gigs).

I had a wonderful afternoon in the Western music world. Nashville friends Keenan Wade and Grace Adele, the husband-and-wife duo who perform under the name “The Farmer and Adele,” arrived here in Los Angeles for a meetup at the Gene Autry Museum in Griffith Park.

Calibrating the old Ampex 2-track reel-to-reel tape recorder tonight, in advance of a recording session this weekend with an eight-piece soul band.