My profile tunes are me with the large cast of musicians I perform and record with.
This week it's a tune by A.J Downing of his long-awaited CD "River of Life"
....pedal and lap steel guitar, Tele, baritone Strat, dobro, banjo, mandolin, electric bass....
.....Bo Diddley, Tom Paxton, Dale Watson, John Sinclair, Greg Brown.....
....picked tunes with Keb Mo' in a hotel room somewhere in the EU, an inebriated Elvin Bishop handed me his guitar and I finished the set in a bar somewhere in Michigan, Ted Nugent showed me his Glock backstage at Cobo and strung together more cuss words then a drunken sailor, played to shopping baskets and checkout lanes at a grocery store....
.......tons of albums (CD's they call them), numerous commercial sessions (Budweiser, Ford, Michelin, Pella, Farm Bureau, etc.), a thousand bands, the Lansing Symphony Orchestra, Boarshead Theatre, Always Patsy.
....to Amsterdam, Chicago, Hamburg, New York City, Copenhagen, Omaha, Rotterdam, New Orleans, Memphis, Arnhem, Minneapolis, Cleveland, Detroit, Lansing, Port Huron, Marquette, Calumet....
...saloons, arenas, taverns, weddings, pubs, circus tents, bars, sheds, Indian restaurants, hippie restaurants, festivals, barns, tractor pulls, country fairs, nature centers, flat-bed trailers, banquet halls, mansions, grocery stores, coffeehouses, alleys, backstreets, Cobo Arena, Milkweg, CBGB...
...honored to be a member of the Earthwork Music collective, a progressive-minded group of talented artists connected to the planet they live on and in the full flower of their creativity...
....fortunate to know and perform with many talented musicians and their spirit and camaraderie keep me going....
....love the Illinois farm that my mother came from and which the family stills runs. It is the most beautiful place on this earth. I think about it every day....
...thank you Bucky for enduring...
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