Reached California a week ago, May 15. Saw three redwood forests on our way to San Francisco. In SF I made a crew shift again with my folks shipping back east. For my return voyage I’ve been joined by a shrimp. Check her out on the beach in the pictures below.
It’s been an interesting week since then. We hung out in San Fran for a couple days, I stuck my toes in the pacific and saw Lucero at Slim’s on Saturday night. I missed them when they played around home in April, so it was nice to catch them out here. They opened with San Francisco - they strapped half stacks to roof racks and drove to the parties. They played lots of songs from the next record, should be a good one.
We hit Yosemite National Park, which was amazing. We saw wild burros in Oatman, AZ (a ghost town on old route 66) and spend a couple nights on a cattle ranch near Kingman AZ. At the ranch we branded cattle and battled rattlesnakes. It’s all documented in the pictures below. At the ranch I also had the chance to play some shanties to a life long cowboy (the real deal) who said Rio was "longer than and indian love song". I have no idea what that means, but I'll take it as a compliment.
More recently we went to the Grand Canyon in AZ and Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Last night we pulled into Austin TX, which seems to have over 100 bars on 6th street, everyone with bouncers announcing “1 dollar shots, 2 dollar beers.” Anyway, we’ll hang out in Texas the next day or so before heading east.
SCC has a few local (and not so local) shows in the works, as soon as they are confirmed, I’ll post them.
It’s been an interesting week since then. We hung out in San Fran for a couple days, I stuck my toes in the pacific and saw Lucero at Slim’s on Saturday night. I missed them when they played around home in April, so it was nice to catch them out here. They opened with San Francisco - they strapped half stacks to roof racks and drove to the parties. They played lots of songs from the next record, should be a good one.
We hit Yosemite National Park, which was amazing. We saw wild burros in Oatman, AZ (a ghost town on old route 66) and spend a couple nights on a cattle ranch near Kingman AZ. At the ranch we branded cattle and battled rattlesnakes. It’s all documented in the pictures below. At the ranch I also had the chance to play some shanties to a life long cowboy (the real deal) who said Rio was "longer than and indian love song". I have no idea what that means, but I'll take it as a compliment.
More recently we went to the Grand Canyon in AZ and Carlsbad Caverns in New Mexico. Last night we pulled into Austin TX, which seems to have over 100 bars on 6th street, everyone with bouncers announcing “1 dollar shots, 2 dollar beers.” Anyway, we’ll hang out in Texas the next day or so before heading east.
SCC has a few local (and not so local) shows in the works, as soon as they are confirmed, I’ll post them.
