**THE OFFICIAL FRIDAY SILLINESS THREAD***

[Liberty Valance]

Not to worry. That pic i posted was originally from Janis Ian. She has a keen sense of humor. I know all about Folk. I live in Kerrville, home of the Kerrville Folk Festival and attend many of the concerts. Some great players around the campfires after the concerts.

[Scoutmaster]

Kerrville is wonderful.

I've attended several Kerrville Folk Festivals and enjoyed everyone of them (Lyle Lovett, Nanci Griffith, in the old, old days). I have a few KFF CDs, including an old Women of Kerrville which includes Tish Hinojosa (her later duets with Chip Wheeler are wonderful), Lynn Miles (I Always Told You The Truth), and Cheryl Wheeler (youth everywhere love Ms. Wheeler's song "Potato" and her walk in the woods with her dog, John).

Kerrville State Park is a delightful place to camp. During the right season, when you open your tent flap in the morning it's not unusual to find deer grazing all around you, within a few feet of your tent.

[Neets]

Wow

[Scoutmaster]

Ah. Still available on Amazon for $7.25. Worth the price if you enjoy contemporary female folk.

Seventy-five Septembers is Cheryl Wheeler's very nice tribute song to her grandmother (I know about Wheeler's sexual orientation).

Dar Williams is the Dar Williams who will later become famous, and still be barefoot and then go all Mary Chapin Carpeter "Somebody Feed Me" large on us - which offended people for some reason, but anyway the song's about how Christians and pagans aren't all that different. Riiiiiight. The solstice, so Amber called her uncle. Gee. When Christians sit with pagans only pumpkin pies are burning.

Catie Curtis and Susan Werner - my kids grew up loving Werner's "Last of the Good, Straight Girls" from the CD of the same name ("gone the days of the corduroy jumpers and your birthday string of pearls"), but Werner's agnostic gospel CD is . . . interesting.

Tish Honojosa is, on the CD and still is, an absolute angel - and in some twisted way, through a sampler CD playing in a Cambridge funky shop while my youngest was looking at jewelry, she led me to Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez, for which I'll always be grateful. And, Chip Taylor is John Voight's brother. Who knew?

[Liberty Valance]

I know most of the people you're talking about. Tish is a sweetheart. Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez "Sweet Tequila Blues" is a favorite of mine. The songwriting talent at the festival is what draws me back every year. I don't attend some nights because i've seen some of the artists 5 or 6 times. My sister is a software engineer/songwriter, guitar banjo and mandolin player in Austin. She comes every year as well. She's won some awards in the newfolk songwriting contests at KFF. I just play well enough to keep the tune handy. ;o) Lost my wife to cancer back in July so don't know if i can handle all the memories we had together there for this next season at KFF. Bittersweet.

Tish Hinojosa - In The Real West

[Scoutmaster]

I enjoy that song by Tish, and Sweet Tequila Blues is the Taylor/Rodriguez song I heard in the Cambridge funky shop. Small world. It's also my favorite Taylor/Rodriguez, followed perhaps by the duo's rendition of Angel of the Morning (written by . . . hmmmm, Chip Taylor, who also wrote Wild Thing, and recorded by, most notably, Merrilee & the Turnabouts and Juice Newton). Those songs are among those that hooked me on the duo and eventually on Rodriguez's and can't-sing-a-lick Taylor's solo work.

Cosy Sheridan?

Lucy Kaplansky?

Diane Ziegler?

Hudson and Frankie?

Or my favorite far-leftie since the very late 1970s, UT's own Nanci Griffith.

Hudson and Frankie, along with Lyle Lovett, are sidewalk people in front of the Woolworth's on the cover of Nanci's 'Last of the True Believers,' the album with Rita and steel-guitar-playing Eddie and their Love at the Five and Dime, a Nanci song that Kathy Mattea later recorded, which Nanci reprised on One Fair Summer Evening and perhaps Anderson Fair, both live albums.

I'd enjoy hearing your KFF stories and I'd love to meet you and your sister.

Please accept my condolences regarding your cherished wife. Perhaps a KFF someday in the future in memory of her life. I'd be honored and humbled.

[Scoutmaster]

The November 4 six-CD Dylan basement tapes? I made a mistake and bought the complete set, which means I didn't get the full Ben Rollins' song-by-song notes in the non-complete CDs.

Last time I checked, some, but not all, of the notes were available at http://www.bobdylan.com/us/news/basement-tapes-track-track.

[Liberty Valance]

Thanks for the kind reply. May have to play Sweet Tequila Blues for the Canteen tonight. This being the Friday Silliness thread, just thought of a Jon Ims at KFF tune that would fit right in ...

Jon Ims - The Day Daddy Cut The Big One

Jon wrote 'She's in love with the boy' and Trisha Yearwood had her biggest hit with it. I also got to hear Lucinda Williams sing around the campfire after she wrote 'Passionate Kisses, Drunken Angel and 'changed the locks'. Great times for songwriters.

[Liberty Valance]

[Jet Jaguar]

BTTT

[dayglored]

> Disney Princesses Welcome Star Wars Princess Leia

Oh, my.

And what did I do to deserve the honor of watching this? :)

[Scoutmaster]

How could I leave out Lucinda Williams.

Six Blocks Away
Drunken Angel
Lines Around Your Eyes
Sweet Old World
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Passionate Kisses
Metal Firecracker
Lines Around Your Eyes
(I like Like Lines Around Your Eyes and Metal Firecracker)
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road
Right in Time
2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten.

Thanks for pointing me to John Ims. I need to learn more about him.