Art, Music, Performance, Writing
Tumbling Tumbleweed looking for home
" Tumbling Tumbleweeds" is a Roy Rodgers cowboy song, sung around the campfire with fellow cowhands on a starry night, with a crackling fire, when the herd is quiet and coyotes are howling harmony. The song's lyrics are plaintive as the western...
Blues Jam Girls Night Out
Girls like to sing the blues too. Their blues are mostly about guys that don't leave quick enough or stay long enough, guys who can't make up their minds and stick with what they finally decide on, guys who drink too much or not enough, guys who are...
Talking with a Man of Bones Glenn Kostur plays the blues
My last conversation with a skeleton was at an Albuquerque Starbucks, on Halloween. Before that, I shared a sidewalk bench one sunny afternoon, with a man of bones in Tulum, Mexico. Today, outside the Kaktus Brewing Company in Bernalillo, New Mexico,...
Playing for the crowd Nosotros,Valentines Day, 2019
If you want to know what people are looking for, count the cars in the parking lot. Tonight, the parking lot is packed. The dance floor is also packed,dancers barely having enough room to stand. The band is hitting their notes, ladies are dressed to...
3 On A Match Albuquerque Sunport
This group belongs in cabarets in Berlin, London, Paris, after World War 2, without the smoke, SS Officers and floozies. A first response to new music is often to discount or find faults with it because it is new. Another response is to...
Santa Plays his Sax Holiday Stroll, Albuquerque Old Town -2018
Sax Rats is our saxophone quartet - two alto saxes, a tenor sax, and a baritone sax. It is cold this evening as we load into Dan's van, drive down, set up, begin our first music set at the Holiday Stroll in Old Town, Albuquerque. " In college, "...
Making the News KOAT, Channel 7, ABC, Albuquerque
Growing up in the 1950's, there were only three channels on our new black and white TV. The programming was sports, talent shows, westerns, game shows and nightly news.The broadcast day ended at midnight. In the 1960's,Johnny Carson got people to stay up...
Scotttreks 2019 Postcards
Begun in 2014, Scotttreks is a rolladex of Scott's time travels for those who remember what a rolladex looks like, what it was used for, how it was used, until computers sent them to antique auctions. Hot on Scotttrek's trail, I flip back to 2014, to...
Asia in Sandstone Amarillo College Museum
Some sculptures exhibited are behind glass, others are open to visitors to peer at closely, peek at the small shadows in the creases of the faces. Some of the work is utilitarian, made to ornament balustrades and pillars. Other works stood in temples...
Gallery of Asian Art Amarillo College, Amarillo
The Amarillo College Museum has several floors and this Friday, after Thanksgiving, Alan, Cousin Jim and Scott ,visit both floors. On the second floor, one of the museum's permanent exhibits features sculptures carved from sandstone dating from the 1st...
It’s the Feeling, Man! Jazz
On Saturday mornings, the New Mexico Jazz Workshop jam is in order. Open cases are spread on the floor, Real Books rest on stands,metal folding chairs have been unfolded, coffee is okay outside the rehearsal room, guitarists plug in amps, sax players...
Group Therapy Concert
Tonight, at the Marble Street Brewery, in Albuquerque," Group Therapy" commands the stage. They rock out with " Classic rock and roll ", blues, jazz , Latin, boogie woogie, funk, and even some gospel to keep the mood positive and the crowd seduced. As...
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