2022
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March 27th, 2022. Quiet Sunday Morning.
There’s been so much in the past several weeks, I feel discombobulated. Chuck joining us for a Live from the Lair on March 16th. Chuck the Madd Ox is a JEDI. I’m so grateful for this quiet Sunday morning. It is COLD and it is GREY but I woke up at a leisurely pace after…
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March 23rd, 2022. Ups and downs.
THIS is just about all I want to do. Well, and some other stuff. (from Live from the Lair on March 9th). recording Kristen’s pans is always an exercise in space management. But check those beautiful things OUT!!! I’ve had a rough 48 hours and I’m trying to come to terms with what’s been occupying…
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March 22nd, 2022. The SPRING w Jae Jin.
Another week at the Sandy Spring Museum where MAYBE WE SHOULD’VE BEEN OUTSIDE!!!! Sigh. Gonna have to stop second-guessing the weather at some point and just wear an extra flannel. Your host rob Ethan Mendick Sarah Moore Kate Buckholdt Michael Potts Featured artist Jae Jin Xander Eagle Robert Schilling Brian Higgins Denny Buck Juels Bland…
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March 15th, 2022. The SPRING w Oldgrass String Band.
Stephen Hunt kicking off the night at the Sandy Spring Museum in Olney, MD. Susan Rodgers Well, tonight got kind of complicated! When I’d booked Justin Heath’s Oldgrass Stringband, they’d been naught but a duo. Then a trio. Tonight they’ve arrived as a quintet on a night when I’m supposed to be training one person…
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March 8th, 2022. Open Mic at the SPRING w special guest Jesse Moody
Alas, the video from the night got screwed up in the outgoing webcast (probably overworking my machine by recording, running the webcast AND running the mixer all at the same time… that’s my theory) so here’s the uploaded, locally recorded / recreated version. Dagnabbit, Jesse Moody’s amazing. Robb Mapou Ethan Mendick Ethan joined by Mike…
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March 4th, 2022. I-85 & War.
This cat is waiting for things to return to normal : e.g. for us strangers to get the Hell OUT. (at Karen’s house in Durham, NC) When we return from a trip, which for much of my Life has meant “Tour” but I’ve often called The Trip, there’s certainly the feeling of coming back to…
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March 2nd, 2022. Good morning.
There is mist coming off the pond in the backyard, there’s not a cloud in the sky out front. The temperature has dropped to a brisk 60-somethin’ today which prickles, and though I know it’s too cold for the locals, it seems pretty close to perfect to me. I hear some rustlings, but take pride…
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February 28th, 2022. A … dream.
Yesterday Kristen and I went and visited Rex’ farm, the family farm of her dad’s wife. It’s a LOT of land and we spent a lot of the day getting the tour and befriending vicious animals. I had a nightmare that I’d taken over FocusMusic. Herb, the current president, had retired and was passing the…
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February 27th, 2022. Not too sunny.
Despite the dire tone of this post, we got out and did stuff. This cannon was sitting out on the road as we drove past an American Legion on the way to … Kristen’s father’s wife’s son’s farm… I’m not sure on the math on that. Where we actually went and had a fantastic time.…
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February 26th, 2022.
Sunshiney and bright. The accents are soft, the environment is quite harsh. Slowly I think things are getting better with Kristen’s father. He’s absolutely got certain types of untreatable pain, but a LOT of it is when he’s down he can’t remember being up, or can’t believe “up” will come again – and that’s frustrating…