Tues., July 22
Kathy Miller Haines and her husband Garrett treated us to a jam session at the Tree Lady Recording Studio. It was a cool space, much bigger than I expected with walls painted a vibrant green and blue.
Tammy got the singing underway with “The Highwayman”, originally an 18th-century poem by Alfred Noyes. Adria went next with a song from a musical I hadn't heard of. Then Patty with ragtime tunes. Diane accompanied them on the piano. Tamara sang a wonderful Sephardic tune before Ben finally started up the “Gettbysburg Blues”—the reflection on our rushed Gettysburg tour that everyone was waiting for. The highlight of the gathering was probably Mark’s continuation of the “Gettysburg Blues” with his impassioned and heartfelt repetition of “that damned bus”. He had quite a few verses in him.
We recorded a couple of songs for Mike Fowler who was not able to make the jam session because he was back in the hospital with an infection from his appendectomy. We sang him “Shenandoah”, “You are my sunshine”, and “Which side is it on?”, a bastardized version of one of the strike songs “Which side are you on?” The “Which side is it on?” was a reference to the catheter tube they have coming out of him.
Kathy Miller Haines and her husband Garrett treated us to a jam session at the Tree Lady Recording Studio. It was a cool space, much bigger than I expected with walls painted a vibrant green and blue.
Tammy got the singing underway with “The Highwayman”, originally an 18th-century poem by Alfred Noyes. Adria went next with a song from a musical I hadn't heard of. Then Patty with ragtime tunes. Diane accompanied them on the piano. Tamara sang a wonderful Sephardic tune before Ben finally started up the “Gettbysburg Blues”—the reflection on our rushed Gettysburg tour that everyone was waiting for. The highlight of the gathering was probably Mark’s continuation of the “Gettysburg Blues” with his impassioned and heartfelt repetition of “that damned bus”. He had quite a few verses in him.
We recorded a couple of songs for Mike Fowler who was not able to make the jam session because he was back in the hospital with an infection from his appendectomy. We sang him “Shenandoah”, “You are my sunshine”, and “Which side is it on?”, a bastardized version of one of the strike songs “Which side are you on?” The “Which side is it on?” was a reference to the catheter tube they have coming out of him.
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