Category Archives: Music

Van Colbert – SouthArts/Mid-America Arts Alliance Folklorists Retreat

Splendid Band News! Van Colbert of the famous Colbert Brothers and our esteemed banjoist, has been invited to perform on stage at the SouthArts/Mid-America Arts Alliance Folklorists Retreat April 21 in Memphis. Are you folks in for a treat. Our … Continue reading

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From Victory Music

This review of the Winter’s Bone soundtrack has recently come to our attention. For a while there in 2010 and early 2011 it was all we could do to keep up with those reviews. They are still coming at us … Continue reading

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The Last and Final Chapter of “The Amazing Geriatric Hillbilly US World Tour, page 33

We all sleep well in our various digs, and Bobby fixes us biscuits and sausage gravy for breakfast. It’s a keen reminder of how close we are to home. But instead of heading that way, when we’re all collected and … Continue reading

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Page 32 of “the tour”

We drive all day and actually cheer as we cross the Iowa line into Missouri. We’re still some hours from Kansas City, but our hearts are perceptibly lighter. We roll in and locate the venue, and get some surprises, all … Continue reading

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Page 31 of the Amazing Geriatric Hillbilly US World Tour, aka the Winter’s Bone Tour with Blackberry Winter Band

Page 31 and nearing the end, only 2 months and five days after we actually did. I got a puppy, ok, a part-Jack Russell, and I got the part with the springs in the legs. You want ‘m? Anyway, he’s … Continue reading

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The Amazing Geria … you know what this is, page 26, New York, New York

This extremely busy day started with a take-out breakfast from the corner restaurant a half-block down from Debra and Jonathan’s home and offices on 11th Street. Then we dressed hastily and flew off in two taxis uptown to the National … Continue reading

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Eureka Springs Bluegrass Festival

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