Clan Cornelius’ live music season kicked off in fine style on Tuesday night with Corb Lund and the Hurtin’ Albertans at the Domino Room in Bend. Small club, great sound, crack band. A highlight was an extended version of I Wanna Be In The Cavalry which included both the exhilarating march and the dirge.
If you haven’t discovered Corb Lund’s music yet, fire it up. He’s in the Frontier Partisans x-ring.
We’ve got Sierra Ferrell, Steve Earle, Kaitlyn Butts, Shane Smith & the Saints and Turnpike Troubadours on the road ahead this spring and summer.
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POLITICO Magazine recently published an 18,500-word report on the 2005 Operation Red Wings, the disastrous mission that formed the basis of the memoir and movie Lone Survivor. This is well worth your time. R.M. Schneiderman and Ed Darack took years putting this together, and it is a good, hard — and fair and empathetic — look at how badly things can go awry in dangerous territory and terrain in the back-of-beyond — and how a military disaster can be glossed and romanticized.
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My brother and I drove past Vasquez Rocks on our loop from Los Angeles up to Wrightwood and back through the Mohave Desert last week. Of course that got me thinking about Tiburcio Vasquez — and this lecture by biographer John Bossenecker popped up on my feed.
Vasquez was a bandit boys, his horse was fast as polished steel…
Handsome and well-turned-out, he played guitar and seduced women wholesale at the same time he and a loyal gang carried out a spree of robbery and horse theft through Central and Southern California. He rode through places like Arroyo Seco and Big Tujunga Canyon where I hiked when I was a young feller.
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The Gold & Gunpowder YouTube Channel continues to deliver excellent pirate history content that puts buccaneering and the Golden Age into the commercial, political and ideological context of the 17th and 18th Century. The 17th Century was rife with radical ideologies that both sparked and grew out of the English Civil War, and the early 18th Century was shaped by the persistence of Jacobitism. This is great stuff.
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Yet one more Taylor Sheridan show is on the way — a direct spin-off from Yellowstone. The further adventures of Beth and Rip.
Quixotic Mainer says
I was listening to Corb this morning! I very much hope to see him again, but he understandably doesn’t hit this coast too often. Ironically, the last time he did I was in Montana and missed him being in New Brunswick.
That Vasquez lecture looks good!
San Gabriel Scout says
The wife and I got to see Corb back on March14th at the Globe in Bertram, TX. He put on a great show and with the Globe being a small venue it made it all the better. Truly a great evening of music.