This song is dedicated to Dan Todd, who left us June 16, 2018. Dan will be remembered as fondly by his many students and by many more who heard him play guitar and harmonica with such bands as Toy Boat, the New Mules, the Tube Radio Orchestra, and What’s Right. © 2019 by Deb Teel *** Deb Teel lives in Killeen, Texas. She is the product of an old-style
I’d learned a lot of blues songs, quite a few famous and obscure standards from the 20s and 30s, some Irish tunes, a few old Burl Ives songs and others from the dread folk music revival years, a few Dylan tunes. (While I’d dug Dylan’s early lp’s, he was leaving me pretty lukewarm as his lyrics expanded. I didn’t stop to analyze what it was I didn’t dig until
I teach a college course called United States History Since 1945. It’s a fun class because the students and I get to reflect on U.S. social, political, economic, and military history of the last seventy odd years. It’s one of those classes where I can show the hilarious episode of I Love Lucy called “Job Switching,” where Lucy and Ethel find work in a candy factory while Ricky and Fred
Last weekend I had the pleasure of experiencing the John Saunders Band as they performed at the Whitewater Festival in Canon City. Their fusion of nineties classics with John’s organic song-writing skills creates a sound that is uniquely Colorado that they call “alt country.” Hailing from Castle Rock, the band performs regularly at local gigs not only in their home city but also in Denver, Colorado Springs, and other surrounding areas. John
I think I am only slightly exaggerating when I say that being a redneck is sort of fashionable right now. Ever since the white working class proved decisive in the 2016 presidential election, both major parties are re-evaluating their relationship with an “embarrassing” voting bloc they believed they could ignore with impunity. However, over a year ago, even before Donald Trump secured the Republican nomination, yours truly cautioned against writing
