Special Holiday Packages available Starting Today

This year, for the first time, we've decided to offer some package deals on our DVDs for the holiday season. Each of these three-DVD sets comes with a free gift---a copy of The Dixie Bee-Liners new CD Susanville. All of these packages will give you enough to work on for a good many months, maybe…

On The Road (again)

Well, after a short 37 hours at home I'm again packing up the car, but this time it's not for work. It's to Georgia for our family Thanksgiving. In addition to the turkey and ham and organic vegis and dairy products, I'm also bringing my banjo and fiddle so that we can do a little…

The Late, Great Allen Shelton: a BAND PLAYER

Folks, this is Allen Shelton playing his tune "Bending the Strings". I'm sending it out so that you can all see it. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UNWX2bV2_Yg This is a great performance by a late, great picker. And I was reminded (having forgotten it since) that about 25 years ago I had the honor of backing Allen up on guitar…

Dixie Bee-Liners American Revivial Tour-Day 25

Yesterday: last show of the tour. Cool old Vaudeville theater with a surprising amount of space in the dressing rooms. I had the BEST surprise. I knew that my cousin who lives here in Pittsburgh and her boyfriend were coming to the show. She came when we were soundchecking and we went to eat Greek…

What A Day Of Singing!

Just got the last dish put into the dishwasher after Red’s birthday party this afternoon. It was a picking party, of course. We don’t know how to have any other kind! What do you do at a party if you don’t play music? I played banjo all afternoon and one of my fiddle sisters, Charlotte,…

Dixie Bee-Liners American Revival Tour-Day 24

This is gonna be a speed-blog because I'm running late and we're about to load the van to drive 4 1/2 hours to our LAST GIG OF THE TOUR!! We were all a bit disappointed yesterday when we realized what a long drive it was. Originally the tour book (our itenerary) had said it was…

Dixie Bee-Liners American Revival Tour-Day 23

Our band did a school outreach yesterday afternoon at St. John’s Lutheran School. The entire school was in attendence, a couple hundred K-8th graders. The littler kids were totally into it, clapping to almost every song, though not at all in time (it sounded like heavy rain pounding on a roof), but the eighth graders…

Dixie Bee-Liners American Revival Tour-Day 22

I’m sitting the lounge of the Hilton Hotel in Naperville, IL, near Chicago, writing this. Who knows when I’ll be able to post it because they make you pay for internet access here, which I’m not willing to do. Last night my phone told me there was a Caribou Coffee half a mile away, so…

Dixie Bee-Liners American Revival Tour-Day 21

Knoxville yesterday held many revelations. Among them Morelock Music, which is right around the corner from The Square Room, where we were playing. I happened upon it completely by accident. What caught my eye was the huge banjo but what really drew me in was the dead cool vintage clothes. Not what I usually expect…

Misfit Jam

We were light again tonight, just Logan, Susan, Bob Van (on guitar tonight), and me, so we delved into some songs we don’t normally play: Mary Dear, Sally Goodwin, Earl’s Breakdown, Salt Creek, Little Cabin Home on the Hill, and the tried and true Lonesome Road Blues. We actually started with LRB and when Logan…