Lee Jones

James Kelly made a point back then, said, “What’s the point of sleepin; There’ll be time for that when we get done with the company we’re keepin.” -Tim O’Brien (“The Tide Flows into Milltown”) At our son’s wedding in June, our friend (and fellow Strawberry Koalan) Larry Chung told me that he’d be coming over [...]

If you have Tommy on your iPod, fire it up. Or fire up this: Tommy – Overture We saw Roger Daltrey at the Villa Marina a week ago. If you are our age and grew up on what is now known as “Classic Rock”, I don’t need to tell you who he was. He was [...]

I’ve talked plenty of times about the picking at Jack of the Wood. In fact, I recently got an article published in Blue Ridge Country magazine (February 2011 issue) about it. And I’ve often wished that I had pictures. I mean, every week we see flashes going off throughout the room – I assume we’re [...]

[Warning: this is a post meant for the music geeks in the crowd, and mostly the bluegrass music geeks. But if you're in that group, you'll dig this.] We’re at the Jack of the Wood tonight, our regular Thursday night bluegrass jam. It’s a typical evening and a lot of the really fine pickers are [...]

It’s been a crappy day at work for reasons with which I won’t bore you. But at about 4:00 PM I knew I had to get out and do something for myself. I decided fresh air and comfort food would solve all my ills and a walk (fresh air) to Greenlife for a cookie and [...]