Still feeling last night’s whiskey, you roll out of your bunk onto the cold, bare concrete floor. You’re not sure where last night has left you. Falling into line with your fellow travellers, you can only hope their focus is well directed.
Too slow to claim shotgun, you end up riding bitch, sandwiched between an old school serial killer and an elvis impersonator. The road is rough. Loosely packed clay ... more pothole than surface. Every twenty yards or so erosion has formed perfect narrow ribs in the road, and you get that creeping feeling in your gut as your family jewels chatter like an inuit’s teeth.
A landscape like none you’ve ever seen crawls across your window. The hills are lush and green, much like those at home ... but different. Golden brown hayfields glisten in the sun with a brilliance seldom seen. What appears to be a commuter train rounds the bend, blows its whistle, and blurs the horizon with its ebony exhaust.
You give up on comparisons and surrender to the experience. Like that blurred picture on a waiting room wall, if you relax your eyes, new images emerge from the background.
You see a hippy kayaking a river of fire. You see the ruins of ancient cities. You get out of the car and walk up to a gate.
The roots of enormous trees wrap and wind over and through the stone of ancient tablets. Their markings are barely legible - "Thou shalt not free-form jam. Thou shalt sing songs of farms, trains and Jesus..." The ground, once thoroughly domesticated, has reclaimed it’s wild freedom. You run through it like a child in a playground and forget everything......
......the CD stops. You fall out of your musical daydream and land squarely back in your morning commute. You pull into your normal spot at work.
thanks so much for such an excellent show last night!!! it was my first time getting to hear you kids play and i was extremely impressed!!! and beth is simply fantastic!!!
Just saying hey to you guys and wondering when Barnes and Noble is going to start carrying your CD's? Also I got some sound on my video below. It's not bluegrass but it was made in Kentucky!
