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[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore -- is the requiem something you're actually composing?

Partly, but it's all based on Appalachian folksongs and hymns. Several items in the piece are set and some are still in flux, determined by what I can find.  The hardest part is finding something funny about death.

The layout is something like this: 
1.  Lonesome Valley - Chorus
2.  The Unquiet Grave - Solo, Chorus
3.  Something funny?
4.  Murder ballad? - Solo and chorus
5.  Poor Wayfarin’ Stranger - Solo, Chorus

Other options:
I am a Poor pilgrim of Sorrow
Conversation with Death
Kingdom Come
Amazing Grace

If I can't find something funny, I may take the text for "Conversation with Death" and write my own melody.  I don;t much like the ones I have, but i like the text.

What a wonderful idea.  Original and fascinating.

[ChasSmith]

Just paid a couple of ugly bills.

Oh yeah, they was ugly.  Trust me.

[elmore3003]

Since my fixed income is about $200 less than my monthly bills, they're all ugly!

[ChasSmith]

DR Elmore, where do you get your caps like the one in your avatar?

Alby Potts wears something like that when he's playing.  Hey, maybe that could be my Ask BK.

I need one but have no idea where to look and know they're of halfway decent quality.

[elmore3003]

DR Elmore, where do you get your caps like the one in your avatar?

Alby Potts wears something like that when he's playing.  Hey, maybe that could be my Ask BK.

I need one but have no idea where to look and know they're of halfway decent quality.

I purchased a couple in a men's shop in the Towne Mall in Middletown, OH.  the shop is now dead or I would have purchased a new one last October.

[elmore3003]

The name in the cap is "Country Gentleman":
http://www.hats.com/shop/country_gentleman.html?CAWELAID=120173250000000387&CAPCID=63364437147&cadevice=c&agid=19815295947&catci=kwd-3706998817&gclid=CjwKEAjwxoG5BRCC7ezlzNmR8HUSJAAre36jVSKvAj-4Rgjtl3mpHMr9nr45IGTYard6SPiK5jN3ABoCmu7w_wcB

[elmore3003]

It's the Wool Blend Newsboy Cap.

[ChasSmith]

Nice stuff, all of that.  Thank you, sir!

[ChasSmith]

Too bad about the Middletown shop.  I could have gone there on the eleventh of May!

[John G.]

Good morning, all.

[John G.]

Casting vibes for BK.

[John G.]

Elmore, is there an Appalachian take on Go Tell Aunt Rhody?

[John G.]

Listening to Sondheim at the Movies while working. Nice work, BK and Elmore.

[Ron Pulliam]

The name in the cap is "Country Gentleman":
http://www.hats.com/shop/country_gentleman.html?CAWELAID=120173250000000387&CAPCID=63364437147&cadevice=c&agid=19815295947&catci=kwd-3706998817&gclid=CjwKEAjwxoG5BRCC7ezlzNmR8HUSJAAre36jVSKvAj-4Rgjtl3mpHMr9nr45IGTYard6SPiK5jN3ABoCmu7w_wcB

Squire Elmo!

[ChasSmith]

The name in the cap is "Country Gentleman":
http://www.hats.com/shop/country_gentleman.html?CAWELAID=120173250000000387&CAPCID=63364437147&cadevice=c&agid=19815295947&catci=kwd-3706998817&gclid=CjwKEAjwxoG5BRCC7ezlzNmR8HUSJAAre36jVSKvAj-4Rgjtl3mpHMr9nr45IGTYard6SPiK5jN3ABoCmu7w_wcB

Squire Elmo!

Of the Landed Gentry.

[elmore3003]

Elmore, is there an Appalachian take on Go Tell Aunt Rhody?

I had never thought about dead geese.  I was hoping for something funny about dead people.  i wish there were something like "Massa's in the cold cold ground."

[elmore3003]

Listening to Sondheim at the Movies while working. Nice work, BK and Elmore.

Thank you!  I wish I felt the same. I think that album is my least favorite of all I worked on for BK. Outside of "Back In Business," I think my work is not as good as it should have been.  I cannot put my finger on what bothers me, but the cast is good, BK did fine, but . . .

[FJL]

Larry - Does it need to be a public domain song? 

[Jane]

We were promised calm seas, and that is what we had last night and this morning.

☺

[Jane]

Finding aid vibes for DR elmore!

I'miss not sure I worded that correctly but you know what I mean, at least I hope you do.

[elmore3003]

Larry - Does it need to be a public domain song? 

Yes.  I'm looking for an Appalachian folksong.

[Jrand73]

Yes, I'm thinking I may use the photos/paintings in my BIO slides for the 1776 cast......

[elmore3003]

I just read all the reviews for "Tuck Everlasting." I didn't care much about seeing it, but I want to see the final ballet which got most of the praise from every critic.

[Ron Pulliam]

We were promised calm seas, and that is what we had last night and this morning.

☺

Excuse me while I look for my magnifying glass!

[John G.]

Elmore, is there an Appalachian take on Go Tell Aunt Rhody?

I had never thought about dead geese.  I was hoping for something funny about dead people.  i wish there were something like "Massa's in the cold cold ground."

I just read all the reviews for "Tuck Everlasting." I didn't care much about seeing it, but I want to see the final ballet which got most of the praise from every critic.

I'm reading The Great American Whatever by Tim Federle, who wrote the Tuck book. It's not my favorite of his works. But it's okay.

[TCB]

DR TCB, you are now in the England-Ireland time zone.  Wave to my friends as you pass Dublin!

I believe that will be late Friday or early on Saturday.

[Ron Pulliam]

I am very sad to inform you all that actress Madeleine Sherwood has died.

My favorite film performances by her were "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof" (as Paul Newman's greedy, fertile sister-in-law) and her brief, but very vivid and memorable performance in "Resurrection" as one of the people Ellen Burstyn's character heals.

[TCB]

Just paid a couple of ugly bills.

Oh yeah, they was ugly.  Trust me.

One of my credit card payments is a day late.  I am sick about it, but it is my own fault.  I meant to post it the day I left on the trip.  Damn it!

[TCB]

We are almost ready to turn the page.

[TCB]

Perhaps Ron would like the honor.