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Delbert McClinton
Four bands tonight, Clay McClinton, Delbert McClinton, Casey Donahew, and opening was the trio of Deryl Dodd, Dave Perez, and Larry Joe Taylor. All were, as one might expect — greatness. But my personal favorite was Delbert McClinton, maybe simply because it had been a decade or more since I heard him. And simply because he’s still got it!
Clay talked a little bit with me about his wreck and the subsequent recovery, and what a toll it took on them all. But, he maintained, his wife Brandy was beside him every step of the way, stalwart in her caring and not letting him give up. And, now, he said, he’s working out and taking really good care of himself. And it shows!
Really, these are where two huge limbs almost meet.
I woke up in my good ol’ hippie van to watch the leaves from two different branches of the same tree, shaking as if being blown by two different winds. Calming and hypnotizing at the same time. After a breakfast sandwich of peanut butter and sugar-free jam on whole wheat bread, washed down with my first Diet Coke of the day, I got to relax… no, make that chillax… the word used around here.
My friend Houston got here, flew in from California, and stopped to pick me up some deodorant. And the festival-goers breathed a collective sigh of appreciation!
I’ve set up my own little ‘media’ table in the permanent metal building used for VIP (on the other side and closed to li’l ol’ me), musicians, and media.
The Diet Cokes are free. And Houston just bought dinner for us — fried alligator meat. It was delicious!
The crowds are still sparser than they will be later on in the week, and that makes it easier to be friendly with them all. And they all want their pictures taken — so I take them.
And thanks to Joe Honea, and Keith, I am being spoiled rotten with golf-cart rides to and from H.V. to wherever I need to go. Basically, it’s still “The answer is no. No, what is the question?” But I’m surviving.
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