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“Desperados Waiting for A Train” Leads to a Big Oh My!

Desperados Waiting for a Train appears on JJW's Live at Dixie's Bar & Bus Stop

So I took a trip back musically this afternoon and listened to some Jerry Jeff Walker. I listened to his 2012 album Live from Dixie‘s Bar & Bus Stop. The live set is composed  of most my favorite JJW songs.  Among those songs is Guy Clark’s “Desperados Waiting for a Train“.  first heard this song way back in 1973, when it appeared on JJW’S 1973 album Viva Terlingua!  When it played today I shook my head and said oh my! Read More

Today in Music – Nov 13, 1946 – Ray Wylie Hubbard is born – Happy Birthday, Ray!!

Today was a very hard day out in the field lugging around the nuclear density gauge to test the density of the backfill being placed, above the pipe and below Tuckerton Road, during the emergency repair of the dam at Sioux Lake. And right now it hurts to even TYPE, and my mind well it’s gone to sleep well before the rest of my body!! But I’ll try to write something and any errors can be blamed on my tiredness!! Read More