i'm going out back to feed the dogs this evening, i got my flip flops on, abe taylors in my left arm, i'm squatin into the dog food bowl, my only free hand (which is my right) is scooping in the dog food bowl, you know to fill the bowls, and right between my legs...a copperhead...me and then kid were on the move, then i regrouped and grabbed up a ho and went after the head, abe thought it was rather funny,

july 16th, love and war in plano, we gona be playing a shiner sunday with chris knight, can't hardly wait for that one, he's got a new record coming out 7-11, thanks to jake and dusty for that gig, we needed it

going to hanks tomorrow night, our buddies miles from nowhere are gona be there 2, they start about 8, then on saturday night we will be in grapevine without the mavricks this time, so maybe there will be 5 or 6 people there this time


later
watch out for snakes
mo

2:00 am,

i've been on the back porch all evening, hooker and his family came out, my old buddy cody bowen, jeremy lincoln posey, Kevin anderson, and mr. justin bowerman, along with a handful of other folks, lots of bs going on,

bowerman played some of his new tunes, and the kid has got some good stuff, i told him he needed to put some of those tunes on his myspace page, and he said he needed to get a myspace page, and i said yea you do

everybody skinned out except for me and mr. anderson, so we preceded to decorate the hood of charles with empty beer cans, and write a pretty cool tune, and talk about shady people that have done 180's, i think we both needed the opening up, a man can only hold so much bull shit inside, it's always good to let it out to someone who cares, or makes you think they care,

i had some good laughs tonight,

i'm the arlo guthrie of paris

sorry if i make no sense, i ment to went i started out, and i swear i was....to me anyway


tell somebody you love em

see ya
mo

thank you john "ballgame" pittman, the dude is a badass, he sat in with us last night at our last minute fill in gig at love and war, and ol ballgame was like a rock star, bur head and all

only thing we got this week, is a scorcher at buffalo joes, 1:30 pm i think, flat bed trailor, asphalt, 90 plus, but i know your gona be there, and i might be playing crabtrees on the square saturday night, solo, some dude called me a few weeks ago, and asked if i would play, and i said yea, and he said ok, and that he would get back with me on the details, well i got news for that dude, if you don't get back with me on the details, i won't be there, because i failed to get yor name and number and i don't know who to call...anyways

i got my new hot rod strolled out in the living room floor, plugged in to my new les paul, i'm writting a tune really loud and destorted, so i must go now because abe taylor will be here in about 30 minutes, and he must mess with every button and nob on my amp...not cool


later
mo

best weekend me and the boys have had in quiet awhile, i must say...

well thursday was rough, thanks to the mavs, not only did they hurt our crowd at adairs, but they stunk it up royally on the court, i think it was like 9 points in the 4th, i'm subject to not even watch the game this evening

on to friday, in to dillions, 1st time in about a month, and 1 hell of a good time, the most tuned in crowd i think we may have ever had, thanks for coming out, and tuning in

last night was the coolest love and war gig i can remember having in awhile, or maybe ever, (you know, now that i think about it, i stayed bone sober all weekend, i wonder if that might be the reason why i think the gigs were so killer) any way, it sure was good to see all our friends that made it out, and damn good to make the new friends that we did

but today might have been the coolest,
abe taylor got me the brand new neil young 2 dvd set, heart of gold, i spent most of the afternoon watching that, shows him in 71 on the johnny cash show, and he does some very cool tunes with the legend emmylou, and i did not know that the martin he plays used to belong to hank sr.

then my boy hook calls me up, always good to talk to that ol'bandit

then the one and only casey cainan calls me up, he's in cleveland ohio, just got his hand well enough to start pickin again, (said he had to crack some heads), and that he is now the manager of the biggest traveling circus in america... and now i can say i know somebody famous

then my old friend shad blair calls me up, he's in houston, and just heard me doing one of his tunes on the radio, and he goes on to talk about how he seen the boss, and dylan, about a month ago in new orleans at the jazz festival, he said bruce puts on the best live show of anyone he has ever seen, he said he had 250 thousand people hanging on every word, so i asked him about bobby don dylan, and shad said he couldn't believe he was so closed to one of the most prolific songwriters in american history, and that when the shock wore off, and he picked his jaw up, he said he couldn't understand a word ol bob was saying, until he got to the hook,...i thought that was cool

then shad tells me he was walking out of tower records in nashville a few weeks ago, and guess who is standing by his truck, i say, i don't know, and shad says....steve earle and his wife allison, so of course i say your shitin me, and he says no i'm for real, and i say well what did you do, and shad says, hey i'm shad blair, and then he frose, and steve looks down over his shades, and after about 2 awkward seconds, he says hi shad blair, then shad got it together and pulled a remarkable conversation out of his ass, so he said

man it's been a good week

adios
mo

back on line, sorry for the delay

i'm wounded, supposed to be gigin tonight, but, i got this wicked spider bite on my arm, that i neglected for a week or so, and i played gigs thrusday thru sunday, not knowing that the constant moving of my arm was only making it worse...and the pain, oh the pain, it hit this morning, so i go and see old saw bones, and he says, "take two of these a day for next 10 days, and no guitar" well we got a full weekend, starting thursday, it would sure be funny if i had to just sing without playing my guitar, i always thought those boys looked kinda funny, even mr. cash looked like he would have rather been playing that big black martin instead of holding the mic in one hand and the cord in the other, but anyway, the show must go on

got the art work finished up for the new record, and i talked to mcclure today, he's gonna get us set up for the mass replecation

i spent the last 30 minutes watching wrestling, i haven't done that since i lived with jack kindle, and cody bowen, it still sucks...bad


go mavs

later
mo