Back at the Jackalope Jamboree festival in the little town of Pendleton, Oregon again this year. My 2nd annual trip thus far. I love it because they are down in the dirt, the real down, real people playing real music with real passion. Nothing gets me going like a van […]
Here’s one from the vaults, back in the before times, before even 2020. Arlo Mckinley playing at the Wild Bean on my trip to West Virginia. Arlo told me it was cool if this one came out, but then I couldn’t get ahold of him after that lol so if […]
Another one from this years Jackalope Jamboree festival in Pendleton, Oregon. Stayed at this motel called the Motolodge this year, and decided to crash the pool area with a song from Boy Golden. They’re Canadian, so we’re healing the USA/Canada divide together. In this song they ask the universal question… […]
Back to the ole Jackalope Jamboree (https://www.jackalopejamboree.com/) to hang with a new friend, Alabama’s own, Taylor Hunnicutt. She has one hell of a voice, lotta power in those cords. Her and the lads were on a journey out West, on tour in the Hunnicutt mobile, when I met them out […]
We went up to Wisconsin to hang out with my pal Jason Dea West this past spring, visiting his family farm. On the way I had to check off a bucket list item, a little detour to the home of Jobi from the duo Pine and Fire. They had been […]
Radio silence from King Lazy Eye after we released our other two vids with him from this session (https://youtu.be/RnmLf4JPJEI?si=wuCYOmbpGUXqa96k). Well, surprise, he was locked up. Makes our conversation in the last video all too relevant. A few too many uppers, or maybe they were downers, and his PO put him […]
My old pal, my good buddy, damn near the first GemsOnVHS, (and hopefully the last when its all said and very much done) Mr. John Davey. The Midwest’s biggest hero, back in the saddle with me in Duluth for a quick session outside the venue. I’d somehow convinced John to […]
In the heart of Ireland again for a tune with DUG, the band. We started off in Dublin, and jumped in the tour van down to the loveliest of places, Cork, for a series of shows. Always something interesting to see along the way in Ireland, and this time we […]
We caught Zoé Basha & the band on an early evening of a nascent Mardi Gras season in New Orleans, kicking off their first U.S. tour. They’re over from Ireland and on the road in a big yellow school bus, rolling slowly but surely from Louisiana to Washington state. This […]
Well folks, finally the thing no one could have predicted (or asked for), GemsOnVHS (me) travels to Korea to record folk music. You’re probably wondering how this came about. Seth Mountain is a musician from Oregon who happens to have lived a big portion of his life in Korea. There […]
