Keep On Truckin'

I've been listening to some CDs that Kris made for us a few years ago. On one of them is "Six Days On The Road", the Grateful Dead version. I used to sing this song in the first band that I joined back in the early 90's. In the lyrics, there is a line that goes, "I got ten forward gears and a Georgia overdrive" (The Grateful Dead said Georgie overdrive). I never really knew what that meant so I looked it up. It refers to when a trucker puts the transmission in neutral to coast down hills or especially mountain roads and can go faster.

This video shows Dave Dudley singing this song in 1970. Check out the clothes and hair style on the electric guitar player. Very typical of the 70's. Evidently, Dave recorded this song at Sun Records in 1963. The Dead did it later.

Recordpub.com - Food Network to show Ray's Place burger on Monday: Kent restaurant to appear on "Best thing I ever ate'

Check out the article from The Record Courier and if you can, tune in to The Food Channel at 10:00pm on Monday to see the story about the burger at Ray's Place.


Recordpub.com - Food Network to show Ray's Place burger on Monday: Kent restaurant to appear on "Best thing I ever ate'

Sleepy Man Banjo Boys

I saw these three young men on The Late Show with David Letterman a couple of days ago. When they finished, Dave said to Paul Shaffer, "They're like the Jonas Brothers' right Paul?" and Paul said, "Well, no, they're not".

The song starts out slow, but catches fire quickly.

Video via Jean-Claude

This is a video from Jean-Claude Halter, who lives in the Alsace region of France. There is a reasonable chance that he is a relative because his grandfather and father were farmers who lived in the same small town that my ancestors left when they came to America. That area of Alsace was mostly German in the early 1800's and my relatives spoke German.

Tar Heels

This weekend, when we were visiting The Akron Zoo with Kris and Mark, we saw some deer-like animals called tahr. This led to a mention of the North Carolina Tar Heels and the question of what the mascot of the NC athletic teams was. It's the ram.

Sean Chambers Band

My Facebook friend, Gary Keith, plays harmonica with this group. Gary is also my friend on FB for CityVille and CarTown. Give them a listen and if you want more, they have several other videos on YouTube.

Summer Solstice

Happy First Day Of Summer

• Pagans called the Midsummer moon the "Honey Moon" for the mead made from fermented honey that was part of wedding ceremonies performed at the Summer Solstice.
  
  
• Ancient Pagans celebrated Midsummer with bonfires, when couples would leap through the flames, believing their crops would grow as high as the couples were able to jump.
  
  
• Midsummer was thought to be a time of magic, when evil spirits were said to appear. To thwart them, Pagans often wore protective garlands of herbs and flowers. One of the most powerful of them was a plant called 'chase-devil', which is known today as St. John's Wort and still used by modern herbalists as a mood stabilizer.