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String drummers,

   Hope every thing is going good in your neck of the woods and that the dawgs are'nt howliing when yer singing and picking. Finaly got a job after looking for 5 months, back to electrical work and trying not to blow my tools up. Ok it was the bosses, but he turned on the breaker and didn't tell me, thank god he has a sence of humor! Man, things around here are really slow with some of the bigger companies going belly up due to this economy. 7 at last count. Hope things pick up around here.

   'Nuff said about the w-w-w-w word.  I am still frailing on my banjo ( Hey I spelled it right this time!) once in a while and went to a jam session at one of the coffee houses last Thursday and had a blast. Started out with the banjos but as people showed up, the guitars seemed to be the wepon of choice. Played a lot of old tunes I almost forgot about. Have to do this again. I used to have a band over ten years ago and I miss playing  and jamming with other musicians.

   Sent in three songs to Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI) evaluators, with one coming back with a "close!' and the other two informing me "rewrit, rewrite, rewrite, rewrite!". Kind of hard to get pitched when you are still throwing the logs on the fire to get the corn mash to boil. By god I want to see that vapor dripping out of the coil, but you have to be patient to make great shine. So much for the songwriting saga. Seems like no matter what you write it AIN'T good enough. I am just a country boy at heart living in the city, not to big at that either, wondering what in tarnation do you have to do to hear one of your songs on the radio. I even want some one that can actually sing it tolarable to do it.

   Ok, enough of the whining, I am enjoying the ride and hope one of the stops will be with the people that make music what it is suppose to be and not a number on a billboard chart. I tell you, I enjoy the U-Tube videos that all of you are putt'n on the webpage. It keeps this music alive, guitar hero is not a fan of mine with people that have talent enough to learn an instrument. If you can't drop a note in a bucket that is a different story, go for it, but for the ones that can play, quit being so flat lazy and pick up an instrument, learn it,  jam with someone, and have fun with it. Thats my story and I am sticking to it!  

   All right I suppose that I have to back up what I have said. I am going to leave this up to you fellow pickers. I wrote a song called "Pickled in the Park" a couple of years ago and I am willing to put it on this website with a video if you want to hear it. It has a copyright by the way. I played this for a publisher once and he seemed to like it. I didn't like the terms of his contract so I passed.  It is actually a true story that happened that took about two years to work up, may not sound like it if you would hear it but I'll leave that  to you. I haven't done one of these vidioes yet so I need some advice on how to record it an get it in the right format to be placed on the website. Like I said, it's up to you if you want to hear it , write some replys to this, and if there are any takers, I'll have to get up off of my dead duff      (I was nice!) and get to work get'n this posted. "Nuff said.

   Don't look up when its Hailing, Sincerly,

                                               LyleC

Jumped in and just hangin on.