To: hix@yahoogroups.com From: John Taylor Date sent: 19 Sep 2006 Subject: Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Guitar Camp, Pomeroy OH, Sept.15 2006 After many years of dreaming I finally had the opportunity to attend Jorma Kaukonen's (Jefferson Airplane & Hot Tuna) Fur Peace Guitar Camp. Campers immersed themselves in various guitar learning situations with instructor/recording artists such as Guy Davis (acoustic blues) and Little Toby Walker (fingerpicking style). One of the highlights of the overall experience was the Saturday night (9-15-06) concert featuring Dan Hicks and the Hot Licks. They played for a couple of hours for an enthusiastic crowd of about 200 featuring many favorites including a poignant "sons of our fathers" (not sure of the title)? Dan gained many new converts that night. It was a great weekend with excellent entertainment, detailed & patient guitar instruction, endless jams, gourment meals and of course, Dan the Man. Maybe he'll come back some time and teach a class himself? Later, John   To: hix@yahoogroups.com From: Mike Zim Date sent: 24 Sep 2006 Subject: Jorma Kaukonen's Fur Peace Guitar Camp, Pomeroy OH, Sept.15 2006 The Fur Peace ranch, that is, in the wooded hills of southern Ohio. Last weekend's show was at Jorma Kaukonen's guitar camp. Artists appearing at the 200-seat concert hall this year included David Lindley, Rory Block, John Hammond, and Roy Book Binder. The patio area has bench swings and rocking chairs, and makes for easy socializing. A professional, 1st class operation. Before the show, we visited the Wild Stallion restaurant, in nearby Pomeroy. It has a panoramic view of the Ohio River. A coal barge powered by. Jorma's wife did some giveaways, based on your ticket number, and talked about the choice to leave the big cities for the woods. (They're glad they did it.) Marjorie Thompson, a Fur Peace alumnus, opened. She's an east-coast singer/songwriter. Smart, bluesy-folk-rock, and a clean finger-picking style. (The headline act later treated us to tongue- and telekinetic-styles.) Jorma sat in for one song. Dan, Richard, David, and Paul sported purplish hued shirts, and Daria and Roberta were sharp. Dan took center stage, and said that he had been designated as the band spokesman. He would "be doing introductions and announcing song titles", which included: Evenin' Breeze Canned Music Long Comma Viper The Piano Has Been Drinking ( 'Composed by a male Caucasian") That Ain't Right Topsy & Swing for 42, by Django I Scare Myself Pennies from Heaven (The dance routine included a new-to-me posterior thrust. I vote that they not lose it.) I'm an Old Cowhand What's the Matter With The Mill?, by Bob Wills (Jorma sat in) Song For My Father I Feel Like Singin' (The original version was on last week's American Routes Big Voices program. Some other singers: Satchmo, Solomon Burke, Sinatra, k.d. lang, Israel Kamakawiwo'ole, Waits, and the Melodians.) In honor of the pedagogical venue, the band members identified and described their instruments. (Richard's violin is 19th century, and Roberta's shaker is found-object, from the wilds of Plastic, Arizona. The tribulations of a 3rd consecutive night on the road were perhaps evidenced by Dan popping a Hall's cherry cough drop ("I'm not sneaky. I'm an honest performer."), and him sitting on a stool for one song. ("Now this is called a 'stage move'. It all looks different, right?") We'd heard Naomi Eisenberg would be attending, so brought the old albums for autographing. (She included a variation on the naomididimoan palindrome, and noted the 40th anniversary of the summer of love. (The woman gives good signing.) [Hi again, Seth and Susanna.] Mrs Kaukonen advised all to watch out for the deer, when driving home. A common hazard in this sylvan area, especially with the thick fog. Mike Zim