Robert

The blue neon glowed on the side of the building, reflecting off the windows and the sidewalk as I walked in the door. Smoke and beer and American rockabilly flowed like the hiccups and hollers and belches of a timeless southern rage. I sat down at the table. Bart Weilburg was knockin' out the Johnny Burnette licks with The Brian Dunning trio at The Blue Note when the thought popped into my head. Then they did "I'm Comin Home"I sure do love Johnny Horton songs, I thought. I think I want to start a Johnny Horton cover band and play nothing but Johnny Horton all the time, everyday all day. A sing along beer drinkin good timer band, that was my plan. "Can you please take the baby," my lovely wife asked, stalking up behind me in my back yard. My guitar slung over my shoulder, hitting the high notes of Ole Slewfoot as she tried to speak. "Take him please?" Rob III grinned, he laughed. I took off the guitar and leaned it against a tree. "You been singin 30 songs since noon. Johnny Horton, Johnny Horton. Cant ya find a stage or somethin." "But it helps the corn grow," I told her. Well the stage we found. It is gonna be The Will Rogers Theater, July 3 in Oklahoma City. The Honky Tonk Men have been formed. With every bit of my insides I'm gonna conjure up the ghost of Johnny Horton as best I can. I had a dream I had turned into an electrified donkey. I looked into the mirror and I was a Jack. Johnny Cash once claimed Johnny Horton was reincarnated into a colt after that 1960 wreck in Texas. Maybe the colt's spirit is in me. But not just me. He's in anyone that loves the roots of rock, hillbilly and honky tonkin good times......See Ya, YeahhhhJUNE 24, 2007 POSSESSED By Horton or just Insane Now JUNE 24, 07 Well this is a news flash. I think Johnny Horton just started sending me signals through my 15 month old boy. We were out in the backyard where he was in the wagon playing with two wood chips while I just went through 33 songs, the Johnny HORTON tribute is only nine days away, nine, any significance in 9?? NUmber nine? Anyway, I was down to the last, Comin Home, the first song that got me possessed with this idea in the beginning, I was getting a wood sawin rhythm going on the guitar when the baby started making these low moans in tune and then a kind of high falsetto that matched. He probably will never do it again, I was singing the song when this really warm feeling moved over me, and it is not that hot outside today but overcast and damp. Ive wondered whether Johnny Horton would want me to do this, "I pulled down the road and the truck lugged down/threw it in low and she's huggin the ground/scratchin gears Im gone again, dontcha worry baby Im a doggin it in," and Rob added, muaahhhaaaaaahhaaaa, aheeeee.Maybe it was the citronella candle burnin in front of me but I just had some kind of encounter daddblamitI felt something say yes do this do it, so full steam ahead Will Rogers Theater is on:Johnny Horton Tribute The Honky Tonk Men The Davis Brothers Ruthi and Her Banjo Will Rogers Theater Oklahoma City, Oklahoma 7 p.m. Tuesday, July 3 tickets at okctickets.com