Kellie Pickrel

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Fingerpicking

Merle Travis has always been a favorite of mine.  If You like good fingerpicking you’ll love the great Merle Travis.  I have added to “Pages” a video of Merle performing “Too Much Sugar For A Dime.”  Hope you enjoy.

Don’t pay any attention to the thumbnail.  I am experimenting with a new way to post pictures.

If you haven’t had the opportunity to meet Bob and Sylvia Jordan and hear their music and experience their ministry, you have really missed something.  Bob and Sylvia (neither pictured above) sang at Jean’s Mens Bible Class this past Sunday.  They travel throughout the U.S. singing  for the Lord, charging nothing for their appearance, and give away free CD’s.  If you would like to learn more about their music ministry, download free mp3’s, donate, or check their calendar, click on Bob and Sylvia Jordan under blogroll at the right.

Spade And Bud

Just wanted to remind you that I added a couple of videos you might like.  You can scroll to pages or click on the bars at the top of the blog. 

“Spade Cooley” was one of my favorites.  This clip is about ten minutes in length and features Tex Williams among others.

“Turkey, TX” is Bud Townsend’s (Nocona, Texas native) documentary about Bob Wills.

Bob Wills

  Just a Little video I thought some Bob Wills fans might enjoy

A Turkey In Carthage

As I was transferring some LP’s the other night I came across a song I had written in the ’60’s entitled “I’m Going Back To Lubbock”, recorded by Charlie Sloan for Cowtown Records.  The tag line was something like, “Lubbock where the trees are green, the prettiest women you’ve ever seen, and no one there ever treats you mean in Lubbock.”  What was I thinking?  There may be some pretty women and nice people in that part of Texas, but there ain’t no trees.

People in that part of the state think a tree is two feet tall, two feet in diameter, and tumbles across the road when the wind comes sweeping across the plain.

I have been invited to Turkey a few times but it’s much to close to Lubbock.  After spending a semester in west Texas, I came to appreciate Mac Davis’ title “Lubbock In My Rear View Mirror.”

On the other end of the spectrum, I have been blessed with the honor of performing at the Texas Music Hall Of Fame, an awe inspiring stupendous edifice located in the piny woods of the east Texas city of Carthage where there are lots of trees.  Older and wiser and after meeting several pretty women and many nice people in this east Texas community, I think my song title should have been “I’m Going Back To Carthage.”

Chasin’ Women

I read a fellow bloggers account of an elderly gentleman who would leave the nursing home and snip flowers from the flowerbeds of local neighbors and then take them back to the home to add a little color to an otherwise drab environment.

This reminded me of “once upon a time.”

A few years back I decided one afternoon that I would take my guitar to the local nursing home and entertain the residents with a few oldies but goodies.  After calling a friend and asking him to bring his guitar and meet me at the home around 6:00 p.m., we settled in for an evening of entertainment.

I sang several old tunes I thought the folks might remember, “Green Grow The Lilacs”, “There’s A Bully In The Town”, “Rubber Dolly”, “Smoke On The Water”, etc.  Then, after about 30 minutes, I ask my buddy if he would like to sing a song.

Knowing that he knew just about every Jim Reeves song ever recorded, I was expecting “Bimbo” or “Billy Bayou” or maybe something soft and smooth.  But he sang an old Jimmy Dean song, “I Won’t Go Huntin’ With You Jake (But I’ll Go Chasin’ Women).”

When he finished the song I turned to him and whispered, “Now, do you think that song was appropriate for this crowd?”  His reply, “Yes!  They may not be able to do it, but I’ll bet you some are sure thinking about it.”

I gave my friend the evil-eye, and without even thinking, I began singing “Precious Memories.”