My car turned over to 100,000 miles about 2 hours south of Rochester today. I was coming home from a quick trip to visit E! and to hear her band play at a local farmer's market there. They were great! Folky, bluesy music by the likes of Bob Dylan and Steve Earle (e.g.), with even a gospel song tossed in. Totally fun. I personally loved their version of "Wagon Wheel," which I decided was an adult version of a lullaby.
And it's also just as comforting as a lullaby to hang out with a long-time good good awesome friend and HOPS ("her own personal spouse"). We got to eat Ethiopian with their most delightful in-town friends. With E!'s visiting me a couple weeks ago and my visiting her this week, no one can accuse us of not taking advantage of the painfully short period of time during which we live within 4 hours of each other. But soon she and HOPS are off to a new house in SW VA for some fun new adventures. Luckily they'll live right on the way to my folks' house in Tennessee.
Oh, I would have loved to have seen/heard them! Another great version of that song is Old Crow Medicine Show's. We heard them sing it with Emmylou Harris at the Ryman in Nashville when I was on sabbatical. Pretty awesome.
Posted by: caraf | 19 June 2009 at 02:10 PM
that was totally great and fun, super glad you could make it and we could pretend to be neighbors. also thanks for being there while i indulge my busking fantasy. .
(caraf: i know that recorded version, it's great, and i can only imagine how much better it is w/ EH and live. sheesh.)
Posted by: E! | 21 June 2009 at 09:39 AM