LJT Fest, Day one, aka Monday

| April 21, 2015 | Reply
Gary P. Nunn, Mary Jane Farmer, and Randy Brown

Gary P. Nunn, Mary Jane Farmer, and Randy Brown

For more photos, click on the link below. Arrived at Melody Mountain Ranch (Stephenville) at nearly midnight Sunday, and guard at entrance gate said they weren’t letting anyone in yet. So, pulled the hippie van up right beside that guard shack (with permission) and snoozed the night away.

Woke up this morning to the startling realization that I had left ALL my Scene In Town T-shirts at home. It was a good thing that I hadn’t settled into my camping spot yet, because I turned ol’ H.V. around and went to Walmart to buy some shirts. Nothing happens by mistake… (1) If I’d settled in to camping spot, would have had to unsettle in for a trip to town and (2) mistakenly picked up two of the T-shirts in a size that I used to wear, and the rest in my (hopeful at the time) new size. Sure ‘nuf, that used-to-be-right-because-it-is-larger size is TOO big!

Last night, Gary P. Nunn and I had a good visit, plus a good interview (catch that feature story in the upcoming May issue of Buddy Magazine.) And a visit and an interview are two completely different things.

Gary P. and I go way back, into the early 1980s, and Kerrville Folk Festivals and the Kerrville On The Road tours. Collectively, we remembered one particular favorite which included at least two musicians who are no longer with us — Steve Fromholz, and that was the trip in which the motto “It’s Fromholz’ Fault” was coined; and Bob Gibson, who became one of my truly best friends. If you didn’t know Bob, look him up, but I’ll give you a little heads up… he wrote the popular “Abilene” and popularized the 12-string guitar in the folk era. Look (maybe into the far future) for a lot of photos from that and other Kerrville on the Road pix in perhaps a photo book— only from Gary P.

He and I also got to reminisce some about his producing Chance Cody & Spur 503′s CD. He was really proud and excited about the results of that project! Are ya listenin’, Chance?

Met some new people — Natalie, from Kansas City and a first-timer to LJT, and Sterling, a really smiley guy on the production crew; already seen several regulars — Red Dirt Randy, Larry Francis from Whitewright, and of course many of the sound crew returned — David Byboth, Ray Summy, are a couple of them.

Waiting to see old friends Houston Hall, Beth and Jimmy Moon, and Keith, who as a staffer here has a golf cart and makes all this so much easier for me! Along that line, I am camped in a secure spot, but it triples and quadruples the walking distance.

Larry Joe has made improvements to the front of the (already) huge Bud Light stage, and this allows musicians to step out or go down steps to get nearer the audience. For us photogs and media, it also means better access to both sides of the stage.

Got a free shower Monday — they cost $5 later in the week — and that’s when I realized I also forgot my deodorant. Oh, well… I have plenty of baby wipes.

The little frog in one photo was caught in between the wall and slab. I got him out and carried him to safety… well, at least until he hopped out of my hand. So then, I herded him like a sheep dog herds cattle, to a nearby fence which he hopped under to a waiting green meadow! Yea me! (Insert smiley face here. 🙂 )

I don’t usually write blog style, but this festival is just screaming “make it more personal.” So I am.

‘nuf said for today.

For more Monday photos, click here

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