LA Stories... EPISODE I: Fun with Country Music Royalty...

Louisiana Stories, that is. Tales from my peeps.

Lafayette, LA
July 30, 2007

Chapter 1:
How many drunk cajuns does it take to rob Tim McGraw?

A FULL CAJUN DOME.

Chapter 2:
Later that night... Hell hath no fury like someone rubbing Faith Hill's man wrong.


At least Mr and Mrs McGraw will never forget Lafayette.

"Why Didn't I Think of That" Part 2...

In the last post I mentioned that I started playing guitar again. History lesson, I've owned an acoustic guitar for about 15 years but I never learned anything more than the intro to "Wanted Dead or Live". Also I was a drummer in a rock band in high school, but always regretted not pushing harder to be the guitar player. So about a month ago, I decided that it's not too late and bought a used Mexican Fender Strat off eBay and dedicated myself to open my heart and mind to "Purple Haze". Status Report is that I'm pleased with my progress.

So, I was looking at the music books in B&N when I stumbled across the book Guitar Man: A Six-String Odyssey, or, You Love that Guitar More Than You Love Me by Will Hodgkinson. This book chronicles the tale of Will's journey to play the sixties folk song "Anji" in front of a live audience. At 34, Will picks up the guitar for the first time and sets a goal to play in front of a live audience in 6 months. Will's journey takes him to interesting places from London to Florida to the Crossroads of Mississippi to New Orleans to New York as he searches out lessons from his favorite guitar players from Les Paul to Roger McGuinn of the Byrds to the 80 year old bluesman T-Model Ford.

As a wannabe writer, why didn't I think of this?

BUY GUITAR MAN HERE!

Why Didn't I Think of That...

From the "Why Didn't I Think of That" File, I present to you the website "Jamplay.com". I final decided to practice my guitar a bit more and found JamPlay.Com for online Guitar Lessons. The interface is slick, they have 5 teachers of different genres, they offer "social networking" for their students, you can ask questions to the teachers, plus they've smoothly integrated affiliate sales of musically instruments and accessories from zzzsounds. This is good stuff.

Blair Done Good...

Not just because of the 2 blondes, but because Blair Daly from Opelousas, Louisiana, who was the lead singer of my high school rock band - Livewire, has written the current #1 song in the good old USA: Rascal Flatt's "Stand".

I wonder if he still knows the guitar solo to "In and Out of Love"?

BTW: Blair's the guy in the blue t-shirt.

What kind Of world Do you Want?

I usually hate it when people send me these things, but below is a link to a cool music video by Five for Fight. For every click on this video they will donate up to 49 cents to autism research. Feel free to forward. It's a pretty cool website too. Check it.

What Kind of World Do You Want?