Cab Callaway- "Reefer Man"

This Needed To Be My First Blog Post with Rancho. It's A Timeless Song and A Killer Performance..

I love you all

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Mom

March 22, 2007
An Evening of Electronic Music at Casa Vista

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(I wish it wasn't so dark in the basement)

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Casa Vista Alt-Country Spurs Celebrational Show

So we called it before the game even started. Spurs in 4. No questions.
I don't really watch basketball but I bought a Kurtis Blow single at Amoeba Records last week called "Basketball" and it is the first game of the finals, so Ethan wanted his country evening to have a basketball theme. Julian brought 6 balls and threw them on the floor. I was supposed to make a sign attached to our broom that says "Spurs in 4" and wave it around.
But no one really gives a shit about basketball so I forgot to make the sign and no one seemed like they really wanted to hear Kurtis Blow.
Ethan played solo country stuff to a full capacity Blue Room. The radiator was humming a bit loudly but he turned up the twang and played some country songs.
Firewood played upstairs. Great all around set with some light drumming behind acoustic and electric guitars. A much fuller sound.
On the front porch Jason played two or three songs on acoustic guitar. Really soulful. Then Andrew played a good folk song or two. I feel like someone else jumped in but I don't recall.
Then WS Burn played inside.
NOTE: Edgar didnt finish writing this but im publishing it anyways. He would have said WS Burn kicked ass in some fashion.

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Casa Vista post 1

So apparently their is this thing called "music blogs". According to a reporter for the Austin Chronicle they are all the "new rage." I read about it on wikipedia and then I figured it was time to get in on the action. Call it "That Reverse X-Rays Kid," or call it "the lease is already signed on Rancho Relaxo but that was taken" (ranchorelaxo.blogspot.com ... lets see if this blog gets better). Really what made me excited to do this was the discovery that there are now blog aggregates that you can link to like Rotten Tomatoes, except for music blogs. Once this gets going a bit I will do that (elbo.ws and the hype machine are the two that wikipedia had listed)

So where am I tonight? I played music with Taft and some of his friends for the first time. They have a nice set up on 28th and a half. They've got a piano but the highlight was these Gibson acoustic guitars. Those guys have a Dylan vibe and can all sing. They are playing their first show proper at the Parlor in about a week, but I dont think they have a name yet. There was a party at Jenny Alvorado's tonight that the Strange Boys played among others but I couldn't go because I had my second to last shift of work for Jimmy Johns. I locked my keys in the car on the job which was embarassing. Shane went and said it was cool.

Tomorrow morning (eer...in a few hours) my mom is going to drive me to Fort Worth where we are going to watch my Uncle Martin compete in the Van Cliburn piano competition. He is in the amateurs bracket but its already a big honor, because they only accept 75 amateur contestants to be juried. I think he must be practicing alot because he is going to play the piece that he won the Dallas High School piano player competition with back in the 60s and hes played it for me before but there were parts he couldn't get through. I'm excited, he goes on at 1:30.

I have mp3s I want to post here soon once i figure out how. One in particular that my recently ex-roommate and all around awesome guy Jeff Cooper ripped off my vinyl for me. Its a dub track off KTW Dub by Junior Dan.

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