I just found out today I’ve been linked by two of my favorite country music blogs, thanks to my recent post about the Buck Owens/Emmylou Harris mp3. Twang Nation’s post is here, and The 9513’s post is here.
I’ve searched and searched in vain for an original recording of Buck Owens’ 1979 duet with Emmylou Harris, “Play Together Again Again.” So, I took matters into my own hands (as I did way back in this post). I bought the original 45 single on eBay for 4 bucks (S&H included), and recorded it onto my computer using my handy dandy Numark portable turntable. The sound quality’s not quite remaster quality, but I promise you…it’s the best available on the internet (’cuz I’m the only one that’s got it).
Click on either of the links below to download.
Buck Owens - Play Together Again Again (with Emmylou Harris)
Buck Owens - He Don’t Deserve You Anymore
Governor’s Cup weekend was a busy one here at UC, but students weren’t too busy to give their time to a good cause…and have some fun while they were at it.
On Friday evening, eighty-six students from several campus organizations constructed a box village on the riverbank behind Riggleman Hall. In an Extreme Home Makeover-like fury, boxes were painted, taped together, and covered in plastic to keep out the elements. Then, with pillows, blankets, and laptops in hand, the students in.
The cardboard community would be their home-away-from-dorm for the next 24 hours.
This makeshift camping expedition was all a part of UC’s first-ever Box-a-thon, held to raise money for Scottie’s Place (a camp for homeless children). Organized by seniors Vida Cooper and Leah Bowes, the fundraiser raked in approximately $1,700 for the charity.
Scottie’s Place was named for a homeless boy founder Jo-El Wadsworth met in a national forest, where the boy was living with his father. It was her first close encounter with America’s homeless, one that led her to set up a summer camp for children like Scottie in rural West Virginia.
“It’s up on a mountain, away from society, away from all of their problems. They have full meals, places to sleep and plenty to do—plenty of great friends and help from caring adults,” says Cooper. “It’s an awesome environment and a safe-haven for these kids.”
Public Policy major Rachel McMillion said her decision to rough it on the riverbank was an easy one: “I heard about it when Vida was announcing it and I just thought it was a really great cause, and a fun thing. This is a great way to show the community what people have to go through.”
Cooper says she hopes this fundraiser will become an annual Governor’s Cup event, and with 1.4 million homeless children in America today, charities like Scottie’s place will always need the help.
Here’s a story I recently had published in the Coal Valley News, the Boone County weekly I’m interning at this summer.
It’s a story as old as rock and roll. A bunch of friends get together, plug up some guitar amps and start messing around. Before too long, a band is born.
That’s exactly the way it worked out for members of When All Hope Fades, a local Christian metalcore band. Guitarist Shane Holstein and drummer Tyler Bunting met through their mutual friend Chris Adkins after Adkins transferred from Scott High (where Tyler goes) to Lincoln County High (which Shane attends).
According to the band’s MySpace page, Adkins, Holstein, and Bassist Nolan Graley were all a part of another Christian metal group called “The Darkest Vision.” Bunting joined for a while, later leaving to start another band called “Amidst the Throne.”
Both bands eventually broke up, leading to the formation of When All Hope Fades. Though the musicians had known and played with each other for about two years, this current musical incarnation is only about two months old.
Recently joining the fray is 18-year-old vocalist Justin Kimbler, a fresh Scott High graduate. The band had been searching for a front man for some time, and decided on Kimbler the night before Bunting and Holstein’s interview with the Coal Valley News.
Watching the video of his audition on MySpace, it’s easy to see why the guys of When All Hope Fades took to Kimbler. His guttural screams are almost superhuman. The longer one listens, the more one wonders how his vocal chords don’t spontaneously combust.
Bunting is a wonder in his own right. The meek 16-year-old would draw comparisons to Bleeker from the hit movie Juno before he would John Bonham or Keith Moon, but behind a drum set he produces heavy, spitfire rhythms that could fit anywhere in the rock spectrum.
When All Hope Fades will play their first gig as a band on July 1st at a private party. The guys also hope to make their way into the recording studio sometime soon. They insist that visions of the big time aren’t occupying their minds at the moment, however. “That comes later. Right now we’re just having fun,” says Bunting.
You can contact members of When All Hope Fades by visiting their MySpace page, www.myspace.com/whenallhopefades304.
Here’s a story I recently had published in the Coal Valley News, the Boone County weekly I’m interning at this summer.
At its May 13th meeting, the Danville Town Council unanimously voted to give the town’s five maintenance workers a $1/hour raise, effective immediately, to offset rising fuel costs.
Mayor Mark McClure suggested the raise, saying the workers “do a good job for us and we need to help them out.”
Building manager Bill Cook echoes McClure, especially in regards to the town’s two full-time maintenance workers, David and Terry Clark. “They’re honest and the community loves them,” Cook said of the brothers. “They have a work ethic that anybody would be proud of. I couldn’t ask for two finer people.
The town of Danville will also be hiring two part-time employees this summer to supplement its existing workforce. The additional workers will help cut weeds, mow grass, repair sidewalks and roads, and perform what Cook calls “general maintenance” for the town.