Get Together

I spent the weekend at Clark County Park in Mississippi along with about 100 of my wife's mother's family. It was peaceful outdoor living and at the big Saturday night get-together I figured this song by the Youngbloods might fit the occasion. I planned to set up the harmonizer and wow the relatives with the ghostly voices that would come at the stomp of a pedal but I had too much to think about just remembering the words. So this is a slightly more competent version of the song than the 100 Hillmans heard me warble on Saturday night.

GET TOGETHER

Jocco Rushing sang a couple of excellent blues/gospel songs and then we fumbled around wondering what to sing and came up with an uninspired Peaceful Easy Feelin'. The next day on the way home I of course thought of a perfect Knees Calhoon song for the occasion that I should have done. This would have gone great with the rainstorm that was going on outside. For the Hillmans who somehow find this page, here's the song I should have sung. Unlike the Eagles song, I actually know the words to this one.

BAD WEATHER 

Casey Jones

Today's song is typical: I recorded it in a couple of hours late one night then went to bed thinking, "Well, that one needs to be done over again with all of the rough spots done right." Then the next day I try to redo some of the tracks and I realize that I'm in a totally different mood and there's no way I could do them better. That's when I decide to just stick the song up at the Ramble and move on.

CASEY JONES

One of my favorite Grateful Dead songs, I actually have a recording of the Mighty Calhoon Brothers doing it at the Las Cruces Inn on September 30, 1978. I have a feeling that it was the only time we ever played it. It must have been a slow night at the bar because judging by the song list for the night, we did a lot of songs that night that I don't remember knowing. Would you believe God Only Knows by the Beach Boys? Play That Funky Music? Mark even sang Funny Little Clown by Bobby Goldsboro. It must have been a hell of a nostalgic night at the Las Cruces Inn.

CASEY JONES (Calhoon Brothers style)