Greetings from northern Alberta’s Peace Country, which at the moment appears to be Swine Flu Country, or, to be pathologically correct (which sounds like a disease all its own), H1N1 Country. My wife Sally has gotten it, my daughter came down with it this morning. I’m still hanging tough, but I could just be procrastinating.
I head back to Nashville next week, just in time for CMA week. As much as I follow current country music, the CMA week for me means mainly that I’ll have trouble parking downtown for my radio show. Actually, this year it means the Night Drivers and I will have a private gig at the Country Music Hall of Fame. Nothing wrong with that. Then on the 13th we head to my old stomping grounds of Chicago, in advance of our Bluegrass Legends Series show at the American Legion Hall in Evanston on the 14th.
If you tune into Truegrass on Bluegrass Junction this weekend, I’ll be answering requests for “Once More” by the Osborne Brothers and Red Allen, a fiddle tune from The Dillards and Byron Berline, and even Dueling Banjos, which I don’t think I’ve ever played on the show. For pre-bluegrass entries this week, we’ll feature the original Wildwood Flower, plus some Uncle Dave Macon and Gid Tanner. As always, there’ll be plenty of Bill Monroe, The Stanley Brothers, Flatt and Scruggs, plus some Carl Story, The Dreadful Snakes, Buzz Busby and a lot more. Tune in Friday, from 3 to 6 PM or Sunday 6-9 PM (eastern), Sirius 65/XM 14.
So long for now. I’ve got a sick family to attend to, and it’s time for another Airborne dose (I don’t care if it’s just a placebo effect, I like it).
Chris
