Off to Tulsa With the Davis Creek Rounders

Posted on August 16, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

and the Smithsonian “Journeys Stories” exhibit!

Whoa! Barely back from Michigan, not recovered at all, and then off to Tulsa with Dennis, Van and Linda to play a few tunes and answer a few Winter’s Bone questions. It was an extraordinary experience beginning with our arrival at the theater to see all our names up on the marquee. And people wanted their pictures taken with us. It was just about more than a hillbilly could take. But we managed. The audience was lovely, some of Dennis’s relatives came out to see us, and one woman brought dessert. Who could ask for anything more.

Unfortunately, poor Dennis had to drive straight back for a photo shoot the next morning, and Van went along to help keep him awake. Linda and I stayed over and had a good breakfast before doing the long trek (300 miles with the temp hovering around 100° F.) home. We arrived back in West Plains, met Tedi at El Charro for a quick supper, and scurried off to the Harlin Museum where we played at the opening of the traveling Smithsonian “Journey Stories” exhibition.

I slept late today.

Now we await the release on line of the soundtrack album and rest up for whatever is the next round. Don’t touch that dial.

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Another One From Moonmooring

Posted on August 8, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

Mar should return on the morrow. I know we all hope she had a great time. I also hope the weather was less hot than it was here! Keep those orders rolling in for the book These Ozark Hills

See you in August! 2011

Sarah, aka the cyber guru

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Get ’em While They’re Hot! These Ozark Hills Ready!

Posted on August 6, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

This is me posting, Sarah at Moonmooring, in Marideth’s absence.

I’ve run through all the prefab stuff Marideth left me before the big trip to Michigan. And there’s no phone service there, being on National Forest and all.

Her book has had it’s first trial print and she hand bound a few before leaving. They look great and read even better! You will recognize some of the stories if you listen to her radio show “These Ozark Hills“; book by the same name. Click on the photo of the book on the front page of this blog and it will whisk you away! Right to the storefront! Shipping will start on the 20th… God willing and the creek don’t rise…

I personally am heading to Fayetteville this weekend where I understand Winter’s Bone is still playing. I hope my info is correct. Looking forward to seeing it a third time and taking my son with me.

Sarah at Moonmooring,

the cyber guru, in Marideth’s absence

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Misc. Tidbits

Posted on August 4, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

Lots going on at the Winter’s Bone HQ these days as well, with Tory and Debra hard at work on a companion documentary piece to the film that will be available on DVD. I’m involved in the narrative, so I get these curious e-mails now and then that start with, “Say something about…” or “Tell us that story you told us in May, about when you…” Mysterious, and great fun.

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My Day Job

Posted on August 3, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

My day job as of last June until year’s end is to assist Kathleen Morrissey in the development of research and information that will be used to complete a feasibility study to determine if our Ozarks Highlands might be eligible for National Heritage Area status. It would let our artists and craftspeople market their wares from one website, and would help people interested in cultural tourism see all the things, people and places this beautiful part of the country has to offer (it ain’t all meth labs, folks. Not even close) Best of all, it doesn’t involve taking property or even putting land under a special designation or rules of any kind. It just certifies that this part of the world is unique and has something to say for itself. Lots of work in the research, since it involves many community meetings and collecting a lot of stories. but the stories themselves and quite wonderful. As jobs go, this one ain’t half bad.

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Ozark Idiom

Posted on August 2, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

Jeez-o-Pete! What a crazy week. I tried to explain to Tory Stewart of the Winter’s Bone team that I’d been extremely busy, as in meeting myself at every turn. Only the expression I used, which is common in the Ozarks, was “busy as a one-armed Paper-hanger. Well, I forgot she was from New York, and the expression totally confuzzled her. She thought, since the laundromats there offer clothes hangers made of paper, I was referring to a broken hanger, and she couldn’t quite get how that would be busy. But then she looked up the expression and issued a city slicker alert. In case you’re not getting it yet, I was referring to a [wall] PA-per hanger, not a paper HANG-er. As to why an idiom for busy refers to lost appendages, I have no idea, but it’s right up there with “Busy as a one-legged man in an arse-kicking contest.” Where do we get this stuff, anyway?

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See You in August!

Posted on August 1, 2010 by yarnspinnerpress

Well, I’m off to Michigan Sunday to visit old friends, go camping in the woods (although a pop-up cabin with good beds, meals served promptly and a generator for lights and fans can’t really be called roughing it), and listen to the latest in women’s music, dance and theater, at the Michigan Womyn’s Music Festival. It’s their 35th anniversary, and I’m going to make sure all 3,500 or so  of the attendees hear about Winter’s Bone, and know where they can get the soundtrack. See you in a week, and no, I won’t come back with a tattoo. It’s not that kind of place.

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