Duggles Stuff

Not enough time to relate all that’s gone down since we left home, but I will say we’ve had three great nites! Anderson Fair and J P Hops House were great gigs and we all got to see some old friends. We ate at Hickory Hollow last nite and sat in with Wayne Wilkerson and Kimberly McCarver then went back out to J P Hops to catch the Hudson’s first set.

We found a great place for a Mexican Breakfast. I hope Taqueria Cancun keeps moving north. Best Breakfast Tacos I have EVER had!!! I was gonna upload pictures, but I’ve run out of time. Maybe tomorrow if we have connectivity…

We’re about ready to leave for Corpus, but on our way we’ll have lunch at James Coney Island.

It’s Tuesday afternoon… we practice tonite. Dan and Brooks will leave their musical stuff over here and I’ll pack it up so we’ll be ready to roll at 6AM Thursday morning. I wanted to put a post out there so there can  have  some communication via comments to this or any subsequent Texas Swing posts.

Texas here we come!!!

It’s hard to believeáhow popular youtube has become. People send me links quite often with interesting stuff to look at (and listen to). It’s easy to get stuck at the computer when one video leads to another andáyoutube always seems to know what will interest you if you were interested enough to view whatever you were viewing.ááSome days I’m more susceptible than others, but Monday I got hooked when my friend Scotty sent meáa link to an old Steve Earle video of him singing “Mercenary Song” when he was just a bit more than a kid. He was sitting around a circle with Guy Clark, Rodney Crowell and others. The scene looked familiar and upon further investigation, I found that it was lifted from a movie titled Heartworn Highways. I have it onáan old VHS tape. It’s been a while since I watched it, but I learned that it has been re-released on DVD with extra stuff not included in the original VHS version. I guesss I’m gonna have to have it. If you love Guy Clark’s music and/or Townes Van Zandt’s music, or any of a number of like minded early Americana pioneers, you’ll want it too. Here’s a link to a review I found on it: Heartworn Highways

I also found some greatávids on YouTubeáfrom “Austin Pickers 1984″ - I may have to pick that one up too. It’s got a great interview with Townes Van Zandt talking about how he wrote “If I Needed You”. If you’re interested just get on YouTube andásearch foráAustin Pickers 1984 or Townes Van Zandt. You shouldn’t have any trouble finding it.

Another one of the things I’ve found to hate about MySpace…

I logged on today to eliminate a booking that had been cancelled. The entry was in there THREE times - I’m not sure how that happened, but after clunking around for 5 minutes, I finally figured out how to delete them. They use the terminology “cancel” which I admit does make sense in a way, but it is used in such a way that you might think what it means is to cancel the current action on the screen (thinking like a programmer again….. rats!)

BUT that’s not what made me angry. I decided to doáa search on Happenstance within MySpace to see if it found us. No luck on the first attempt. Then I added acoustic and americana to the search and turned up about 17 entries….. NONE OF THEM POINTED TO OUR PAGE!!!á It did find our friend Scott McCarley, probably because we are listed as one of his friends.

áoh yeah… and although the 3 entries for the booking were gone off my screen, when I checked our myspace page, they were still there!

I think I’ll start putting a new signature/quote on the end of all my emails…

“MySpace Sucks!!”

Stumbled on a great site for all you music trivia buffs out there! songfacts.com is worth checking out. It’s sort of a Wikipedia for songs. If you register you can add your own trivia and/or comments, but it’s not required to just visit and learn a ton of interesting facts about almost any song you can think of! If you can’t think of a song to search for, pick the random songfact link on the left side. If it’s not a song you recognize, just keep pressing F5 (Refresh) till you hit something that interests you.

http://www.songfacts.com/

Happenstance was OH SO happy to be invited to appear at the Woody Guthrie Festival in July 2007. Jim Dirden took some great pictures of us performing and visiting at the Pioneer Nursing Home in Seminole OK (as part of the Woody Guthrie Festival Outreach Program). He also got a pic of me in the mud at the campgrounds…. it rained….. a lot…..

The real pics ofáus playingácan be found hereáonáthe Happenstanceáwebsite.