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Post by Confessor on Jan 17, 2020 17:41:07 GMT -5
At least you're not pining for the fjords. Hellloooo Polly! It's a beautiful bird...lovely plumage. |
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Post by Rob Allen on Jan 17, 2020 19:38:16 GMT -5
... if money were no object, I'd be Alabama bound tomorrow. You and Al Jolson: |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 17, 2020 20:00:38 GMT -5
... if money were no object, I'd be Alabama bound tomorrow. You and Al Jolson: I hadn't actually heard that song before, Rob, although I had heard of it. To be honest, it was the old ragtime song "I'm Alabama Bound" that I was thinking of when I typed that sentence -- specifically Leadbelly and the Golden State Quartet's version... Although San Francisco's The Charlatans also did a nice rendition... |
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Post by beccabear67 on Jan 18, 2020 1:24:19 GMT -5
There are two or three versions the Charlatans recorded, I think the earlier ones where they had Mike ferguson and Dan Hicks still in the group are best.
But here's a favorite, and probably the best received song by Cowboy Copas, now mostly famous for having died in the plane crash with Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins...
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2020 9:07:33 GMT -5
I just received a really sweet message on Facebook from a musician I met in Fort Payne, Alabama, during our U.S. holiday last year. He was just asking after my wife and I, and wondering when we might be coming back over. It was lovely to hear from him, but it also really made me pine for America. I don't think we're gonna get back over there this year (we're trying to save some money to pay for a loft conversion), but we've pencilled in a return to the States for 2021. Of course, with such a vast country to explore, the chances of us returning to places we've already been are slim, but if money were no object, I'd be Alabama bound tomorrow. Anyway, I'm just feeling sorta wistful for America at the moment and wanted to share. I've never been to the US, but I would like to. I'd also like to visit Canada. So while your post is a personal one to you, I feel wistful (in a different way). I am almost certain I would enjoy any holidays in the US and Canada. |
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Post by The Captain on Jan 18, 2020 10:58:31 GMT -5
I just received a really sweet message on Facebook from a musician I met in Fort Payne, Alabama, during our U.S. holiday last year. He was just asking after my wife and I, and wondering when we might be coming back over. It was lovely to hear from him, but it also really made me pine for America. I don't think we're gonna get back over there this year (we're trying to save some money to pay for a loft conversion), but we've pencilled in a return to the States for 2021. Of course, with such a vast country to explore, the chances of us returning to places we've already been are slim, but if money were no object, I'd be Alabama bound tomorrow. Anyway, I'm just feeling sorta wistful for America at the moment and wanted to share. You're welcome here anytime, my friend! My wife and I are already planning our next visit to the UK. We're looking at summer 2020 to travel back, as my sister will be taking our two daughters there as part of my older one's "go anywhere in the world you want for your 16th birthday" gift from my sister. While they are doing touristy things around London, we plan to head north to do some genealogy research in the Manchester area for my wife's family, then might pop back over into Wales to do some for mine (and if we're there in August, hopefully catch another Swansea City Swans football match for me). We've also joked/not joked about retiring to Wales. I would love to settle in a little town, get a small house, and live out my days tending to a garden, volunteering at the local tourist center, and sitting at the pub in the evening while occasionally heading down to Swansea to catch my team play. |
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Post by Slam_Bradley on Jan 18, 2020 11:59:35 GMT -5
There are two or three versions the Charlatans recorded, I think the earlier ones where they had Mike ferguson and Dan Hicks still in the group are best. But here's a favorite, and probably the best received song by Cowboy Copas, now mostly famous for having died in the plane crash with Patsy Cline and Hawkshaw Hawkins... I was going to post that very song but was on my mobile and hate trying to link to videos on it. Well done. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2020 13:08:01 GMT -5
I try to see a new place in the USA or Canada every year. I used to go international every 5 years. Trying to do that every 3 years at this point in my life.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 18, 2020 21:01:12 GMT -5
There are two or three versions the Charlatans recorded, I think the earlier ones where they had Mike ferguson and Dan Hicks still in the group are best. Ooh, noooooo...  I like those earlier versions of the song just fine, but to me, there were always too many substandard musicians in The Charlatans during their 1964-1968 heyday for them to ever be more than a fairly mediocre electric jugband. By far their biggest contribution to the Haight-Ashbury hippie scene was a stylistic one -- their Victorian/Edwardian clothing, their psychedelic poster art, the concept of all-night jams etc. That's why, despite being arguably the first band to play the so-called "San Francisco Sound", they never achieved the commercial success of some of their Bay Area contemporaries, like Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, and Quicksilver Messenger Service. It was only after two of the best musicians from the original line-up, Mike Wilhelm and Richard Olsen, recruited keyboardist Darrell DeVore and drummer Terry Wilson that they actually made any music that a major record label was willing to record and put out. The band's one and only studio album from 1969 is by far the best stuff The Charlatans ever recorded IMHO. |
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Post by Confessor on Jan 18, 2020 21:18:49 GMT -5
You're welcome here anytime, my friend! Thanks, Cap. Maybe one of these days I'll get out to see you (not sure which State you're in). When I was flying into Nashville, TN last year, we came in over the great lakes and Ohio, and I was looking down out of the window thinking, "I think shaxper lives down there somewhere."  I really enjoyed meeting up with Icctrombone and Crimebuster last year, when I was in New Jersey and New England. I was also hoping to meet up with thwhtguardian and Prince Hal too, but alas, it wasn't to be. Next time! My wife and I are already planning our next visit to the UK. We're looking at summer 2020 to travel back, as my sister will be taking our two daughters there as part of my older one's "go anywhere in the world you want for your 16th birthday" gift from my sister. While they are doing touristy things around London, we plan to head north to do some genealogy research in the Manchester area for my wife's family, then might pop back over into Wales to do some for mine (and if we're there in August, hopefully catch another Swansea City Swans football match for me). We've also joked/not joked about retiring to Wales. I would love to settle in a little town, get a small house, and live out my days tending to a garden, volunteering at the local tourist center, and sitting at the pub in the evening while occasionally heading down to Swansea to catch my team play. So glad you enjoyed your last holiday here and are thinking of coming back. London's great, of course (I live just on the outskirts), and parts of Wales are absolutely beautiful. My parents used to take us kids on holiday to Wales from time to time, and one of my Great Aunts lived in South Wales, near Rhymney, until a few years ago. So, I have spent some time there, but have't got close to really exploring it. Manchester's a great city too...very vibrant. It can be a little rough and tumble, but it has loads of personality and charm. My wife and I are holidaying in the UK this year too: we're having a long weekend away in the Yorkshire dales. I've been to Yorkshire before, but never to that particular part of Yorkshire. My wife used to go there a lot as a kid, and from what I've seen online or on TV, it looks like some gorgeous countryside, peppered with lovely, quaint villages. We are also going on a cheapy week's holiday to Portugal, staying at a villa owned by my Mum's partner, just to have some sunny weather on the cheap. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2020 21:43:46 GMT -5
Since we are talking about vacations my wife and I are taking two this year with our daughters and their husbands. One late May to New England and Eastern Canada. One in early September to the beach. And we would love to go back to England in a couple of years. We loved our trip there in 2019.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 18, 2020 21:45:13 GMT -5
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Post by Confessor on Jan 18, 2020 22:00:19 GMT -5
Ah, OK. The closest I've been to there is eastern NJ, Hoboken to be exact. I'd like to get out and explore New Jersey a bit more someday and head West through Pennsylvania and then either across into Ohio or down into Maryland at some point, but I don't know when. There's just so much of America to see, and so little time (and money to get there!  ) |
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Post by Icctrombone on Jan 18, 2020 22:04:29 GMT -5
Dude, I remember driving through PA once and it took me like 6 hours.
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Post by Confessor on Jan 18, 2020 22:12:29 GMT -5
Dude, I remember driving through PA once and it took me like 6 hours. Hey, you shoulda seen how much driving I did back in Sept/October! I took in a total of four States (Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama, and Georgia) and did a total of 1,587 miles in two weeks. Never underestimate a space-rabbit's driving skills. Here's a clip of my wife and I in our hire car last year...  |
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