Snow has come and gone and then stayed. Thanksgiving has come and gone and stayed (on the hips) and Christmas is right around the corner. Joe and I have been visiting everyone we can before we head overseas. In the meantime we've been eating, listening, and sharing. So I would like to share some stuff of my own.
Throughout the summer I would hear the familiar voices of NPR hosts and jingles on the reservation. A few people would blast the station on Sundays and the sounds of blues would emanate from large and small speakers situated outside and inside the people's homes. Joe never liked NPR so when I would tell him that I think so and so is listening to NPR he would scoff and blow it off. But I sustained my resilience and pressed on, tuning the car radio to the station when ever we would have to drive somewhere.
Finally over this past week we heard something on last week's Sunday blues show on NPR. The dj played a band that should have been familiar to us having lived a few years in Indiana and calling that state "home". What we heard was Rev. Payton's Big Damn Band from Nashville! It was so ironic because we fell in love with the sound and found out that they're playing in Bloomington, IN at the Bluebird this New Years Eve! What's so ironic about this is that last year we had nothing to do when we were in Btown last New Year and now we were so close and yet so far.
If anyone is interested in some great bluesy-hill billy type music that'll make you stomp your feet check out the Bluebird on New Years eve! If you're not around there then just check out their music:
www.bigdamnband.com
Merry Christmas "Plasma for Christmas"!
Throughout the summer I would hear the familiar voices of NPR hosts and jingles on the reservation. A few people would blast the station on Sundays and the sounds of blues would emanate from large and small speakers situated outside and inside the people's homes. Joe never liked NPR so when I would tell him that I think so and so is listening to NPR he would scoff and blow it off. But I sustained my resilience and pressed on, tuning the car radio to the station when ever we would have to drive somewhere.
Finally over this past week we heard something on last week's Sunday blues show on NPR. The dj played a band that should have been familiar to us having lived a few years in Indiana and calling that state "home". What we heard was Rev. Payton's Big Damn Band from Nashville! It was so ironic because we fell in love with the sound and found out that they're playing in Bloomington, IN at the Bluebird this New Years Eve! What's so ironic about this is that last year we had nothing to do when we were in Btown last New Year and now we were so close and yet so far.
If anyone is interested in some great bluesy-hill billy type music that'll make you stomp your feet check out the Bluebird on New Years eve! If you're not around there then just check out their music:
www.bigdamnband.com
Merry Christmas "Plasma for Christmas"!
