New Picker Alert! Congratumalations to Christian and Kimberly Hearn!

New baby arrived yesterday. Chase Hearn II, 7.5 lb!

Good job, Team Hearn.

I'm sure we'll get some pix before too long.

Smokin' Jam at the Mill Last Night

Packed house at the Mill last night. Good folks pickin' all over the place. Mistah Christian was there trying to play out his pre-delivery-of-first-baby stress. I don't think it worked. Send some good thoughts his way, wontcha people? We got another picker on the way!

We were blessed with Ebby the fine, fine fiddler from Tazewell County. Along with Ralph, Sloane, and Richard, we had an elegant sufficiency in the violin section.

Never short of mandos, we had Wayne, Chris, Mary, Casey, and Brian Muller. Good tunes a plenty. Notable was the Wild Bill Jones by Ebby's lady friend. (Ralph - name, please?)
Lots of tunes in B to test the new fiddler and he ate it up. That guy was good, good, good.

I can't name all the pickers, there musta been 30. It was hot in there when I showed up round 7:30, and it rocked all the way till about 10:15. (Past closin' time!)

I dragged Casey over to Sharkey's afterwards to check it out, and all the reports I've heard are true: it's loud, loud, loud. They were out of Casey's choice, Red Hook, so we got a Newcastle each and picked some twin Mando out on the porch. It was loud out there, too, but that's cool. We had a good time.

Look out for the Casey Elder experience at the next Side Door. I don't know what he's whippin' up, but I'm sure it'll be great.

Peace out, yo!

For the kids!

Been listenin' to a lot of Weezer lately.

I like the Muppets, too.

Gotta click the link to see.

Dixieland

In my Steve Earle top three. From his awesome album with Del McCoury, The Mountain, but performed here with Tim O'Brien, Casey Driessen, and Darrel Scott because Steve cursed on stage too much and Del dropped him. :)

Busy Weekend

We had a boss time playing for Leon's 60th birthday. (I hope you guys can still play at MY 60th!)

We played pretty good, we ate real good, and we got a taste of Fairlawn. I went home and hung out on my deck, too. A fine weekend all around.

Off topic, I know I'm always late, and all that, but I swear I had a dream that I was supposed to be playing with Del McCoury, but I was late and couldn't find my way to the gig. Except for the Del part, it's a recurring nightmare.

What are your recurring nightmares? Let's share!

Thanks

I just wanted to put out a public word of thanks to Ralph, Joe, Chris, and Doug for coming to my church today and playing a few tunes. I don't think you'll find a more appreciative crowd. We came through and wowed 'em pretty good, and everyone really enjoyed it. I got a bunch of compliments and suggestions that we don't wait another year to come back, but get back at least once a month! Don't know if we have that much gospel in our archives!

It has been suggest to us (by Joes's uncle, I think) that we put out a gospel CD. I think that might be a seller for us after today. Anyway, I did want to thank you guys for coming. I owe ya one. Maybe a get together for burgers or something before the fall gets too cold.

See ya tomorrow a the Mill!!!!

For Alex!

Yah (Big) Mon!