Touch Me If You Are!
By Michael Erlewine
[My last two photos at Hoxeyville, Allison Cole introducing Jake Robinson who along with his wife Kristin Robinson brought us all this wonderful music for the last 23 years.]
Saying goodbye to the Hoxeyville Music Festival. What a wonderful experience that was, even in its last hurrah. Of course, many of Hoxey’s closest friends showed up, so for me it was one after another after another of folks I care about and know. And they know me and my family.
It does not get much better than that!
I took over 1500 photos which will keep me busy for weeks developing all the raw images, but I should be able to give to Jake and Kristin a flash drive filled with various sizes of images from which they can enjoy the memories of the festival or put them toward some kind of archive or book of festival photos.
In fact, so moving those two days were that I find it hard to pick up where I left off. Now, where was I? Or have I changed enough from the experience to have go back to the drawing board and reset my View.
Speaking of View, I want to share with you a new song put out by Elvin Bishop, an musician acquaintance from back in the 1960s. Elvin was the second guitar (and also sometimes the lead guitar) for the Paul Butterfield Blue Band.
We met and hung out with the Butterfield band many times and played at same venues. Although we were much closer to Mike Bloomfield, the best known lead guitar for the Butterfield Band, we of course knew Elvin as well.
Anyway, here is a new song by Elvin Bishop backed up by the guys from Los Lobos that address our current political situation. It cracks me up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=scKc_-VhcSM
Hope you enjoy it!
[The last two photos I took at Hoxeyville, Allison Cole speaking to the crowd and introducing Jake Robinson, our benefactor for so many years of incredible music.]
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May those without it now create it,
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