Farm Aid 2008

http://www.farmaid.org

As I sit here writing this Neil Young just walked off the stage at Farm Aid. He blew me away! WIthout giving you a compete review of his set he ended with a Beatles song "I'd Love to Turn You on" By the end of the song he had broke every string on his guitar and was playing some awesome feedback with loose strings on his Gibson pickups. He was on tonight! The master of feedback he leveled the stage...What an artist he is...he never fails to just take me back on a trip through the decades with his music.

Farm Aid 2008 is being broadcast live on Direct TV channel 101. Direct TV is matching all donations dollar for dollar. Well sometimes it feels good when corporate America does the right thing. Go give Farm Aid some money. Go see what they do. They help people in need and they have a just cause. Just go look at the help in hurricane damaged areas and all the work they do on the small farms. The proof is in the checks and the news stories. Willie Nelsons signs every check that gets written. How many organizations can say that?

http://cbs2.com/entertainment/willie.nelson.hurricanes.2.820766.html

Willie is on stage at this moment. After 6 hours of music including the likes of John Mellencamp and Dave Matthews seems we are only getting warmed up. Long live Farm Aid and all the musicians who support the cause, our family farmers.

So I Didn't Make it to Annapolis...

But. I heard quite a bit via cell phone...yes that is a cell phone in a shoe. I think this is the Worley LMP model (inside joke) I know there was some great fun had here with John Frinzi, Doyle Grisham, Jim Morris, and James "Sunny Jim" White. I look forward to seeing them in Key West next month. I am just counting the daze...

Here's an Ike I Don't Like....

Here is one Ike I don't like.

I have some friends in Texas and my thoughts are with them tonight.

An Old Story....

Back in the late 1960's my grandfather John, the one I took my first name from, and I were having a conversation on a bench in his backyard, right here in Eden, North Carolina. As I recall it was a sunny Summer day, the fescue grass was bright green, and the apple trees were heavy with the Summer crop. I can still smell the damson tree in bloom just a few feet away. My grandfather had just told me about his favorite President..Ike, yeah you know him...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dwight_D._Eisenhower

When he finished his story he reached into his striped overalls. Yes he was wearing the precursor to the modern day textile worker garb. When his hand came out there was this pin in his hand. He gave it to me and I have had it since that sunny day so long ago.

And now we pause for a public service message...

Something I believe in.

http://www.wecansolveit.org/

After waking up this morning with tropical storm Hanna in my own backyard and on the beaches of my state along with the news of two other major storms lined up in the Atlantic ready to strike my friends in other places...yes I believe.

Here is the form letter you can send to your friends from the site. I thought I would pass it on.

I wanted to pass along the important news that the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration has reported that climate change is impacting our weather. U.S. government scientists conclude that droughts, heavy downpours, excessive heat, and intense hurricanes are likely to become more commonplace in the United States as we continue to increase global warming pollution in the atmosphere.

We have the power to change this, pun intended. Let's do it.