Cracks in the Finish
Posts from June 2018
A blog by Jorma Kaukonen
Kids…
My Daughter Asleep
Carrying a child,
I carry a bundle of sleeping
future appearances.
I carry my daughter
adrift on my shoulder,
dreaming her slender dreams
and I carry her beneath the window,
watching her moon lit palm open and close
like a tiny folded map,
each line a path that leads where I can’t go,
so that I read her palm not knowing what I read
and
walk with her in moon light on the landing,
not knowing with whom I walk,
making invisible prayers to go on with her where
I can’t go,
conversing ...
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Life Is A Disappearing Act
Good things come, good things go
If it lifts you up, it’ll lay you low
People leave and they don’t come back
Life is a disappearing act…
Gretchen Peters, Life Is A Disappearing Act
From Dancing With The Beast
We had another wonderful weekend here at the Fur Peace Ranch With Tom Feldman, David Wolff and myself. All that being said there’s no good time for bad news. Saturday night before the show with Peter Rowan and his Twang And Groove, I found that my ...
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A Night At Natalie’s
Foto by Jorma Kaukonen
Natalie’s Coal Fired Pizza is a more than delightful venue and a really good restaurant that is technically in Worthington, although it’s all Columbus to country boys like me. This is my second trip to Natalie’s, and I look forward to the next one. Now, not a day goes by that I don’t spend a lot of time maintaining my relationship with my guitars, but it’s not the same thing as gigging. I’ve been home for ...
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One Hundred And Eight
Foto by Jorma Kaukonen, Sr.
One hundred and eight years ago in East Windsor, Connecticut a little girl was born on a tobacco farm. Her name was Beatrice Love Levine and thirty years later she would become my mother. Indeed, today my brother Peter and I are motherless children, like it says in the song. In the scheme of things, that is as it should be. Sorry you missed your grandchildren mom… you would have loved them and they would ...
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Yet Another County Heard From
A note from a Dissatisfied Fan
Sunday, June 10, 2018
You know, you just can’t please everybody and in my line of work, sometimes these feelings of dissatisfaction manifest themselves in the strangest ways. I just got a letter from a woman whose return address simply said, ‘Ms. Ripped Off,’ NYC. See Foto below.
I had to think about this one a little bit.
This is what I came up with:
Keep in mind; it’s always nice to get fan letters … good and ...
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The Language Of The Heart
Foto by Mutt
Last Thursday I rode up to Akron for Founders Day… the 83rd anniversary of AA. To be in a crowd where the language of the heart is spoken by all… is rare indeed. I so look forward to this trip every year.
Foto by Jorma Kaukonen
Photographer Anonyous
The ride up was flawless… the weather perfect!
Foto by Jorma Kaukonen
Then it was time for a trip to Henrietta Seiberling’s Gate House.
Foto by Mutt
The weather turned Saturday night and lightning storms cut ...
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The Nelsonville Music Festival
Since I wasn’t working this past weekend, Vanessa and I got to got to the Nelsonville Music Festival, hear some great music and catch up with some friends. We also had to retrieve our daughter who had been camping with her friends for the weekend. Ah… summer vacation… if you’re a kid!
Photographer lost in antiquity
This is an amazing regional festival, well supported by the community and filled with great artists! I was fortunate enough to do a solo set ...
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Maybe April Comes To The Fur Peace Station
Last night the Fur Peace Ranch hosted the up and coming band from Nashville, Maybe April. Since I wasn’t playing or teaching this weekend I took over my pal Jerry’s spot behind the wheel of the mule to ferry folks in from the parking lot.
Foto by Vanessa Kaukonen
Hurl, our Ranch Manager, discover Maybe April before they were even signed and recorded. They were awesome on YouTube and even more awesome in person.
Foto by Jorma Kaukonen
What a great show the ...
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Just A Little Slide Show
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Just a photographic cross section of my afternoon yesterday. Today we have Maybe April with their concert here at the Fur Peace Ranch. More tomorrow…