It's Labor Day and I am doing my best to work on enjoyables and these notes are. The show last evening began with the familiar voice of Danny announcing the call letters and fading into the next two hour's preamble, "Get Your Kicks." With smiles coming out of his eyes Danny went through all his latest music acquisitions with me. His enthusiasm had me paying attention, even though I'm just a watcher of the scene. The musical details are his thing. I look forward to hearing the ins-n-outs of each tune played and this show did not disappoint.

In short order Doc Martin came through the door and threw down his bag of music. No lie, it really is a doctor's bag and was full of CDs except for a bottle of Alka Selzer jammed in the corner compartment. Honest. The conversation was going now. As listeners you only get to hear half the yarns during breaks, cause when a set is playing the major discussions take place.

CDs were brought out, reviewed and stacked which soon formed a low wall between Danny and Doc. No bother, they just kept chatting, comparing and contrasting Traditional Country to Outlaw Country and all the intermediate genres as well. References of politics and hard drinking merged to the front every so often, but development of the playlist was of top importance.

The hot trak of this show was by Nora O'Connor's, "Nightingale" on her first solo CD, Til The Dawn, by Bloodshot. If you like smooth, full vocals and traditional Appalachian sound this song could become addicting. I can't vouch for the balance of Til The Dawn's traks, so let me know what you think.

The best "previously unknown trak" was "3 AM," by Dirtball. Thanks to Doc for this one.

Up coming shows to see are Jay Farrar w/Local 33 at the Gothic Theater September 10 and the Fox Theater September 11. Jesse Sykes & the Sweet Hereafter at the Larimer Lounge, October 8th.

Post show activities were cancelled due to previous engagements.

In retrospect, I've had a very Labor-Day-like weekend ignoring irritating work and pursuing genuine work. Here I sit, busy in an enjoyable way, gathering my thoughts and sipping cardamom coffee. In pondering my world "simplify" is my resolution. I look up and an an old sticky note catches my eye. "As long as possible live free and uncommitted," Henry David Thoreau. I sort of strayed off that course, but it's a good reminder.