Category: Essays/Poetry

March, 1978, back in Big D, we showed up at the Texas Music Awards at the sprawling Lone Star Ballroom…

Language protecting racial equality in CU admissions drew opposition from Democratic lawmakers…

We did our first concert at a festival at Lee Park; special guest, Randy Lee on sax. The crowd numbered in the thousands…

John Wesley Powell was both an adventurer and a scientist. Perhaps that’s exactly what we need now to end the Colorado River stalemate

We were booked two weeks at the Big Country, owned and operated by Snuffy Smith…

Marching to the beat of two different drummers…

Local dignitary and early University of Colorado booster viewed public schooling as ‘the palladium of our liberty’…

The new and final name for the band was ‘Django’, named after guitar legend Django Reinhardt…

With statehood on the horizon, national suffragists sensed opportunity in the Western territories…

I was somehow cast with a Country trio called the Country Truckers. (I enjoyed calling it the ‘Mother Truckers’…)

These accomplishments represent just a portion of the important initiatives undertaken over the past year…

We were a cover band, a commercial dance band. And we put on a pretty good show…

People always come up to me and ask why I’m not in Vegas or touring with a national act…