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Muddy Roots Review 2016
Well, folks, I’m late to the dance. Muddy Roots was, ever and always, Labor Day weekend - and here I am, over a month of dirt kickin’ and shows later, finally putting a review together.
Were I a wizard, I’d feel better about the slow-going.
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Kansas City You Be So Pretty
I went to Kansas City to my pal Dylan's Big Birthday Bender Blowout Bash! Three days of music plus a slew of phenomenal freaks and funfolk I don't get to see that often.
I'd never been to Kansas City. Holy crap, dudes. It is P to the RETTY. It's got all these oddly painted neighborhoods. I passed a cool bookstore and was in a coupla swell bars and ( Read more... ) -
Muddy Roots 2014, Day 2: Good Times…Except for the Shit Creek
Originally published at Patty Templeton. Please leave any comments there.
Everybody knew it was going to happen. The rains, man, the rains. Weather Channel said there was a ONE HUNDRED PERCENT CHANCE of rain. Ugh.
Which meant…I was carrying around a poncho and umbrella for most of Saturday. They ended up being near useless. When the Weather Channel ( Read more... ) -
Muddy Roots 2014 - The PreShow and Day 1: Old Time Tunes to Wild Garage Rock
I ate a helluva lot of peanuts on my way to Muddy Roots. SACKS of them. Yes, dear reader, I ingested nut sacks. These things. They happen. Why? Because it was TWELVE HOURS from Iowa to Tennessee. That’s abt four albums longer than last year’s drive from Chicago to Cookeville. There may have been chips. OK. OK. There were chips. And fries. But what ( Read more... ) -
Tales of a Book Release Party
The best damn lesson that I've learned in the past year is to ask for what I want. Sometimes you get what you ask for.
It sounds like a simple thing...ask for what you want. Who wouldn't do that? Well, me. It's a matter of being shy. It's a matter of wanting to do everything myself and pay for everything myself and not be an imposition on anyone.
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I did it.
It took gut-churning grit and determination, but I did it. I published my first novel, There Is No Lovely End. <---- See what I did there? I LINKED TO WHERE YOU CAN BUY IT! What? You can buy my book? SO WEIRD! I am used to seeing it in a stack of ratty, coffee-ringed papers on my desk. Now it's all bound and beautiful.
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Show Review: Muddy Roots Spring Weekender
PROLOGUE
I’m busier than a one-eyed cat watchin’ three rat holes. I apologize, dear friends, for not hollering around this blog often. Believe you me, once I press publish on the book (which should be about…July 1st [only 2 months longer than I thought it would take]) I am going to be ALL OVER YOU. I miss the swagger and fuss that is this blog. ( Read more... )
