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I've got a brand new video interview with Dr. Michaela Haas (pictured to the left) over at my Patheos blog Off the Cushion.
Dr. Haas is an international reporter, lecturer and consultant. In addition, she is the media consultant for and a board member of Lotus Outreach — the secular humanitarian organization founded by Buddhist teacher Dzongsar Khyentse Rinpoche and dedicated to "ensuring the education, health and safety of at-risk and exploited women and children in the developing world." In the interview, we talk a bit about the organization and how readers/viewers can help.
We also talk a bit about Buddhism, women, and social justice. Among many other things, Dr. Haas is also currently a lecturer and research scholar in the Religious Studies department at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She is also an adjunct faculty member at my home institution of University of the West, where she is currently teaching our "Women and Buddhism" graduate Religious Studies course. Dr. Haas recently finished a book about contemporary Tibetan Buddhist teachers who are women that will be published soon with Snow Lion Publications as well.
In addition, Dr. Haas is a regular contributor to The Huffington Post and a must-follow Twitterer @MichaelaHaas. Make sure you keep up with her!
Watch our interview here.


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Adaptive Sports at MetalMark
A few weeks ago, 12 kids from the Children's Hospital Adaptive Sports program headed over to MetalMark in Fresno. The program provides recreational and athletic experiences for those with disabilities. The kids that came out had an excellent time, fighting their way up the walls.
This young girl was a parapalgeic who managed to campus her way up the wall. The individuals in the groups have physical and health impairments ranging from cerebral palsy to spinal cord injuries. Through hard work and determination, the kids learn that they are able to have athletic lives.
The students have taken multiple trips to MetalMark and plan on returning again soon. This truly inspiring group had a blast at MetalMark.

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Saving Country Music's Worst Songs of 2013
So here you go ladies and gentlemen, the worst of the worst that 2013 had to offer in country music. As you might suspect, a list of mainstream country's worst misdeeds in 2013 is mostly populated by an ear-serrating cacophony of country rap songs. With only a couple of exceptions, country rap has replaced what last year at this time was a parade of laundry list-themed songs.
2013 SCM Song of the Year Nominees
PLEASE NOTE: To qualify for this list, the song had to be released as a single. And with such a crowded field, only the worst of the worst were selected. Feel free to share your most vilified songs of 2013 below.
Jason Aldean – "1994″
When I originally ranted about this song in February, I called it the worst country song ever. If I only knew what the rest of 2013 would have in store.
"In Music Row's everlasting quest to train all of its resources on scouring America to unearth only the finest, most purest form of audio diarrhea, they have struck the mother of all motherloads originating from the unholy bowels of Macon, Georgia's Jason Aldean. Yes Nashville, pat yourself on the back, let all of the Auto-Tuned stars sing out in unison as Stratocasters bray out a cacophony of stadium rock riffs in unified celebration–you have officially discovered the shittiest country music song to ever touch the human ear drum.
Do I understand the levity and the long history of country music that must be considered to declare "1994″ the worst country song that has ever been released? Yes, yes I do. And yet I still stand firmly behind that opinion." (read full rant)
Florida Georgia Line – "Cruise"
What can make a bad song worse is when it becomes so ubiquitous throughout society that it pursues you like a bad nightmare—playing at the grocery store, blaring out of the car next to you at a red light. "Cruise" was officially released in 2012, but since this was the year it achieved historical success as the longest-running #1 in the history of the country genre (though that record when you look deeper into the numbers is somewhat spurious), it would only be fair to include 2013′s summer anthem here.
"Originating from the Republic Nashville imprint of Big Machine Records, the duo consisting of Tyler Hubbard and Brian Kelley met while attending the Mike Curb College of Music at Nashville's private and exclusive Belmont University. I know, right? Doesn't get more country than that! Apparently they were both enrolled in the "How To Be A Upper Middle Class Douchebag But Pretend To Be A Country Boy And Filch Rednecks Out Of Their Hard Earned Money, 101″ class. They made eyes across the classroom, and afterwards discussed their mutual desire for world music domination over $175 haircuts, manscaping, and colonics. Next thing you know, Florida Georgia Line is born.
Florida Georgia Line is a horrible combination of Rascal Flatts pretty boy hyper-pop, and designer jeans Jason Aldean "backroad" laundry list bullshit. They are everything bad about quotation mark "country" in 2012 combined into one big stuffed crotch sandwich." (read full rant)
Blake Shelton – "Boys 'Round Here"
"The Decider's" offering to the 2013 resurgence of the country rap trend.
"Just when we thought the American public was finally getting wise to the fact that country rap is a Cancer of Western Civilization, needing to be cut out and radiated like the grapefruit-sized, puss-filled tumor it is, here it comes roaring back like a raging case of bleeding hemorrhoids.
"Blake Shelton's "Boys 'Round Here" is songwriting by algorithm and analytics, fashioning together words and sounds known to have the widest impact on mainstream radio's weak-of-mind demo. The "boys" in the title of "Boys 'Round Here" is fitting, because this song is rank immaturity. It's the audio equivalent of sneaking out of your mom's house to smoke pot behind a Pizza Hut." (read full review)
Montgomery Gentry – "Titty's Beer"
Yes, this actually exists, was even released as a single with an accompanying video.
"This isn't a cry for relevancy folks, this is a blood-curdling scream; a banshee yawp from the innermost depths of holy hell, destined to beset the eardrums of all rationally-minded music listeners with a cursed memory so potent and terrible, it will be well-documented as a clinically-certified precursor to the most acute and debilitating onset of post traumatic stress disorder, terrorizing the very sanity of any semi-intelligent human.
"If a truly good country song is represented by a delicate pair of supple female breasts, then Montgomery Gentry's "Titty's Beer" would be a rack of cellulose-addled man boobs replete with coarse and graying disheveled chest hair, pock marked with skin Cancer and bisected by a grizzly double bypass scar. Originally recorded by the Country Music Grimmace Colt Ford, "Titty's Beer" is an ode to idiocracy and a battle hymn for the forces of misogynistic cultural reduction. The premise doesn't even make sense, but you can see some oaf going, "Well hell. I like titties, and I like beer, so…." (read full rant)
Joe Diffie feat. D. Thrash – "Girl Ridin' Shotgun"
What is worse than Jason Aldean's "1994″ ? Joe Diffie's "answer" song.
"Did you feel that Oklahoma? That was the earth tremor caused by your native son Joe Diffie selling out so violently it measured 2.1 on the Richter scale. The mulleted, cop mustached 90′s semi-star has released an "answer" song to what many consider the worst song in country music history, Jason Aldean's country rap "1994," and it is as embarrassing as puberty.
"The beats for "Girl Ridin' Shotgun" sound like they were composed by a 7th grader who just snorted his ADD meds, just like all of the beats of the Jawga Boyz's bombastic and trashy tracks. The beat doesn't even get five seconds into the song without going off meter. There's biscuit crumbs in Joe Diffie's mustache that could compose a better beat. And then D Thrash's first line doesn't even rhyme. Are you effing serious with this song? "Girl Ridin' Shotgun" makes me want to make out with my cousin and bet on a dog fight." (read full rant)
Tyler Farr – "Redneck Crazy"
There's bad, and then there's downright wrong. Tyler Farr's "Redneck Crazy" crosses that line.
"Tyler Farr's "Redneck Crazy" isn't for jilted male lovers looking for solace, it is for socially awkward, introverted, creepy-ass chronic masturbaters that hold a minor in megalomania. This song doesn't need a rant, it needs a restraining order and ankle bracelet. It's an insult to both the terms "redneck" and "crazy." True rednecks ride their problems out, rub their wounds in the dirt and move on, not whine about them like a panty waist, eliciting threats and enlisting their loser friends to enact adolescent acts of vandalism as some sort of self-righteous recompense."
"About the only thing this song is good for is turning in for state's evidence of why Tyler Farr shouldn't be allowed within 200 yards of his ex's or any elementary school." (read full rant)
Luke Bryan – "That's My Kind Of Night"
Outmatched only by Florida Georgia Line's "Cruise" for the longest-charting single in 2013.
"Let's start this off by dispatching with the 700 lb gorilla in the room and say what everyone is thinking, but few are willing to say publicly: The only reason Luke Bryan's "That's My Kind Of Night" is a #1 song is because bored suburban moms and their daughters want to fuck him. Luke Bryan's music has the nutritional value of notebook paper, and is the clinical result of when an entertainer spreads his arms wide in a submissive pose and relents his entire will to the country music industrial complex, saying "Do your worst." Luke Bryan has no soul. He is more machine than man. He has the integrity of a Guatemalan mule bridge with a squadron of M1 tanks trying to cross it. "That's My Kind of Night" is like a diabolically-specialized form of audio diarrhea that marries the ideal ratio of water to solids so when it is sent through an industrial fan it inflicts the widest collateral damage on as many people as possible.
"A little Conway a little T-Pain?" Yep, that pretty much sums up American music in 2013, sans the Conway—replaced by Luke Bryan and his vomit-inducing country rap trend-chasing ilk." (read full rant)
Jerrod Niemann – "Drink To That All Night"
Listening to this song is as traumatic as waking up naked in a stranger's bed, with pacifiers and spent glowsticks littering the sheets around you, other people's bodily fluids encrusting on your bare skin of your midriff, your eyebrows shaved, and the unsettled sense like you spent the night before indulging in designer drugs and weird sex against your will. Yes ladies and gentlemen, in 2013, country music when there—to the techno-rave glitterdance sounds of Jerrod Niemann and his woman's ball cap that he got on clearance from Ross.
When the words kick in to this awful, awful song, you think it must be some sort of Saturday Night Live parody. But no, this song is a serious single from Jerrod. Luckily it skidded off the charts pretty rapidly, but "Drink To That All Night" symbolizes another new low for country music in 2013, with an excruciatingly-boring video.
Dishonorable Mention:
- Darius Rucker's version of "Wagon Wheel," spared only from the above list because in the end "Wagon Wheel," however ubiquitous, is still a good song.
- Justin Moore's country rap "I'd Want It To Be Yours," spared from the above list because it was never released as a single, and because it was released at the insistence of Scott Borchetta.
- Brad Paisley's haphazard and ill-advised "Accidental Racist." Also never officially released as a single.
- Any song from Florida-Georgia Line, including the stupid "Shine On" and the just-released single "It'z Just What We Do."
Montgomery Gentry's "Titty's Beer" (A Rant)
America, my apologies, but yes, this truly does exist.
This isn't a cry for relevancy folks, this is a blood-curdling scream; a banshee yawp from the innermost depths of holy hell, destined to beset the eardrums of all rationally-minded music listeners with a cursed memory so potent and terrible, it will be well-documented as a clinically-certified precursor to the most acute and debilitating onset of post traumatic stress disorder, terrorizing the very sanity of any semi-intelligent human.
If a truly good country song is represented by a delicate pair of supple female breasts, then Montgomery Gentry's "Titty's Beer" would be a rack of cellulose-addled man boobs replete with coarse and graying disheveled chest hair, pock marked with skin Cancer and bisected by a grizzly double bypass scar.
Originally recorded by the Country Music Grimmace Colt Ford, "Titty's Beer" is an ode to idiocracy and a battle hymn for the forces of misogynistic cultural reduction. The premise doesn't even make sense, but you can see some oaf going, "Well hell. I like titties, and I like beer, so…." And no folks, this isn't some buried album cut from the once high flying country duo, this song has its own video and is being pushed hard to the teeming masses.
Oh the poor Troy Gentry, trying to stay hip by squeezing his doughy, middle-aged chub into an extra-shrunk child's medium Affliction shirt, while the steamy day stimulates beads of Just For Men dye solution to roll down his wrinkled brow buffed over with multiple layers of man-formulated Maybelline. This silly arse is even rocking the wallet chains, just like all of those cool, hip male pop country acts. You know, the ones that actually still sell records?
And what's up with Eddie Montgomery in this song and video? This dude is doing even less shit than Brian Kelley of Florida Georgia Line does. The video is clearly being shot in the blinding heat of summer, with chicks in bikinis running around everywhere, and yet this dumbass is duded up like he's ready to take the stagecoach over the Continental Dive in the dead of a Wyoming winter. Eddie Montgomery must have more sweat cascading down his ass crack than the water of the roaring rapids in the wild and scenic Snake River.
And somebody take that stupid microphone stand Eddie's poking the crowd with away before he punctures a slew of silicone boobs and they have call out the Hazmat unit for a chemical spill. Seriously, there's more synthetic components embedded in that crowd of floozies than in a semi-truck full of iPhones.
The worst part about "Titty's Beer" is that the song doesn't even work on any fundamental level. There's actually a legacy in country music that uses innuendo and wordplay to veil sexually-charged content that can be both witty and entertaining. But "Titty's Beer" bears it all, leaving nothing to the imagination.
Two guns way down!
Chris Knight's 'Little Victories': A Political Album Done Right
This is the exact album that the United States of America needs right here, right now, at this very moment in time. Finally, someone has the courage and the wisdom to use music to reassure people of the power of individual will, and the beauty of the rising action embedded in every human soul instead of as a vehicle to lay blame on everyone else for the problems the individual faces.
This album presents a challenge. Are you going to sit there and take the easy way out by framing your life in the form of a negative thought? Or are you going to be awed by the amazing riches afforded to the modern American no matter how poor they are and be thankful? Are you going to make an excuse, or are you going to make a plan?
And like only Chris Knight can, brunt force diatribes are abandoned in favor of building believable characters out of the ruins of America's rural landscapes, and telling their stories of heartbreak, bad luck, and redemption to make the points. What a refreshing, poignant, timely, and telling message; a hot dagger in the heart of the wicked polarization that grips our country and divides our purpose; the antidote to the depression of the apolitical person in the height of the political season.
Chris Knight's Little Victories has little mention of scapegoats. There's no long-winded, unveiled bitching about the government, corporations, the media, religion, the left or the right. Instead there's touching, personal stories of low living filled with glimmering hopes and gratefulness. It is a political album that doesn't oversimplify arguments and frame sides, it erodes these things by illustrating that everyone has a personal story, and nobody has the power to shape that personal story more than the individual. Little Victories is deep and altruistic while remaining simple and plaintive. It's message and points are subtle and smooth in their delivery, but somehow still biting in their impact. And most importantly, Little Victories is enjoyable to listen to.
The songs in the heart of this album are what convey the timely theme. "Nothing On Me" looks at tough times and laughs. Title track "Little Victories" with John Prine reminds us to be thankful for the small things, and to take life one day at a time. "Out Of This Hole" teaches that we're usually all responsible for where we are, and are equally responsible to get where we want to go. And "You Can't Trust No One" spells out the folly of our judgmentalism with poetic truth and weightiness.
And there's plenty of the songs of heartbreak and desperation that make a Chris Knight album a Chris Knight album, like "You Lie When You Call My Name" co-written by Lee Ann Womack, the fun, yet truthful and hard-nosed "Low Down Ramblin' Blues", and the excellent sense of story and character in "Hard Edges".
The Kentuckian and honorary Texan whose been writing and releasing music under his own name since the late 90′s has always been a little hard to define as far as style and place. He's written songs for Montgomery Gentry and Randy Travis, and his country roots are obvious. But the style he records his own stuff under has that hard, electric, rock-infused country feel that would have fit perfectly under the "alt-country" title years ago.
Today, he's claimed in part by Red Dirt and Texas Country, and his music carries that "safe" feel of the Texoma corridor, where it is never bad, but never too bold either. But it's Chris Knight's songwriting that has won him fans all the way from the rock world to Western Europe, and the timely nature of the Little Victories material makes it worth arguing if this is his best effort yet.
Little Victories is a big victory for Chris Knight, for country music, and for the level-headed, wise approach to life in an overly-politicized world.
Two guns up.
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Source: Waylon Estate Distances from Tribute Contributors
Yesterday (1-6) the track listing and contributors for the second installment of the Waylon Jennings tribute "The Music Inside" was released to the public to a few grumbles from Waylon fans who were unhappy to see names like Colt Ford on the list, who is known for mixing country music with rap, and Justin Moore, who even legendary music journalist Chet Flippo who covered Waylon and the rest of the country music "Outlaws" back in the 70′s for Rolling Stone has inferred is a "fake Outlaw".
Now Saving Country Music has learned from a reliable source close to Waylon Jennings' estate that the estate has "distanced" from the choosing of some of the artists on the tribute, especially on the second disc. Waylon's estate, made up of Waylon's widow Jessi Coulter and his son and artist Shooter Jennings are said to have limited involvement in the project at this point, consisting of the tracks they have contributed themselves, and a few other "select choices". Both Shooter and Jessi appeared on The Music Inside Vol.1 released in February, and Jessi appears on this second volume due out January 24th.
The Waylon Estate source also says the selection of the contributors has a lot to do with the labels releasing these volumes. Big Machine Records, Justin Moore's record label released Vol.1, and label Average Joe's Entertainment whose releasing Vol. 2 is home to Colt Ford and Montgomery Gentry. The Music Inside project is being managed by producer Witt Stewart (read interview with him here about the project).
There's also questions about the timing of the release of The Music Inside, Vol.2. The series was always intended to be 3 volumes, and a total of 36 songs had been recorded by the time of the release of Vol. 1 in February. June 14th was supposed to be the release date for Vol. 2 (the day before Waylon's birthday), and Vol. 3 was scheduled for October, along with a rumored "Christmas surprise" from the project. Now we won't see Vol. 2 until late January, and physical copies won't be available until February 7th. There is no updated release date for Vol. 3 currently.
Saving Country Music has learned the delay in the release occurred when the original label that signed on to release the albums, Big Machine, refused to release Vol. 2 after physical sales of Vol. 1 did not meet their expectations. Vol. 2 was picked up by Average Joe's, but only with the stipulation that Colt Ford and Montgomery Gentry from their roster would be added as contributors. Justin Moore and Jewel were included to fulfill the project's obligations to Big Machine, resulting in a list of contributors that looks to have more to do with Music Row politics than with who is best suited to pay tribute to Waylon Jennings.
Neither Jessi Coulter nor Shooter Jennings have come out publicly against the project, and SCM's source close to the Waylon Estate says the family still supports the release of these volumes, but if it was left to them, a different set of contributors would have been chosen. Shooter has said in some recent interviews that he, "appreciates that the records have given a podium to many artists from many different walks of life to express their love of my dad's music".
Both Shooter and Jessi showed apprehension to the project at first before finally giving approval, as they explained to The Tennessean back in February when the first volume was released:
(Jessi Colter) "Frankly, sometimes it hurts my heart to hear someone do his (Waylon's) songs." All of which is part of why Colter was reluctant to green-light a series of three Waylon Jennings tribute albums…If Colter was reluctant to participate in such a project, Shooter Jennings was downright apprehensive … "I was leery of it, and even more guarded than my mom was. I've seen people with pure intentions and unrealistic goals, and I've seen people with agendas. And I've seen a Nashville system that will happily milk the 'outlaw' image of Waylon and other people, just so they can sell garbage."
Please stay tuned to Saving Country Music for more information on this developing story.
Track List:
Lonesome, On'ry and Mean – Dierks Bentley
Waymore's Blues – Hank Williams, Jr.
Good Ol' Boys – Montgomery Gentry
I Ain't Living Long Like This – Justin Moore
Bob Wills Is Still The King – Jack Ingram
Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line – Colt Ford
Rainy Day Woman – Pat Green
Love Of The Common People – Josh Thompson
Mama – Jessi Colter
Dreaming My Dreams With You – Jewel
Colt Ford, Jewel, & Justin Moore on Waylon Tribute?
This is not a spoof. I repeat, this is not a spoof or a fake news story.
Wow. My little country music heart was sent reeling this morning when I rolled up to the track list and list of contributors for the new Waylon – The Music Inside, Vol. 2 compilation due out January 24th. The thing read like my lampoon of the unfinished Hank Williams songs, but unfortunately it is all too real folks.
Included in the list of contributors is the country music Grimmace, the genre-bending country rapper Colt Ford, Justin Moore, a man I could make a serious case as being the worst country music "artist" ever, Josh Thompson, who I once took to task for name-dropping Waylon, the 4th Rascal Flatt, Texas's King of Hair Highlights, the effeminate Pat Green, along with the dumb duo Montgomery Gentry, and Jewel. And I'm telling you, Jewel might be the best pick of the lot.
I had mixed feelings about the first volume of these tributes, but this is clearly a helpless cry for relevancy. I know the old philosophy is to try to bring in people who would not be traditional Waylon fans through other artists and covert them through his music, but the closest Colt Ford and Justin Moore fans will ever get to Waylon is snorting crushed Loritab off the back of one of his CD cases.
I am honestly just in shock right now. I don't know if I should laugh or cry. Really what this track list means is that we still have a lot of work to do folks. A lot.
Lonesome, On'ry and Mean – Dierks Bentley
Waymore's Blues – Hank Williams, Jr.
Good Ol' Boys – Montgomery Gentry
I Ain't Living Long Like This – Justin Moore
Bob Wills Is Still The King – Jack Ingram
Only Daddy That'll Walk The Line – Colt Ford
Rainy Day Woman – Pat Green
Love Of The Common People – Josh Thompson
Mama – Jessi Colter
Dreaming My Dreams With You – Jewel
Interview with Austin Lucas
One of the standouts in 2011 so far has been Bloomington, Indiana-based singer/songwriter Austin Lucas, and his album A New Home in the Old World. And apparently this isn't just my opinion, as Austin was able to land on this summer's Country Throwdown tour's exclusive lineup.
On July 4th, the Country Throwdown and Willie Nelson's long-running 4th of July Picnic's collided in Ft. Worth, TX's historic stockyards at Billy Bob's Texas. Of all the amazing talent amassed on that historic day, at the top of my list for folks to interview was Austin. He was kind enough to sit down with me for about a hour to discuss his experience on the Country Throwdown and touring with Willie Nelson, how he got into country music after starting in the punk/metal scene, the business of songwriting, and how his goals are measured and focused on the art of songwriting first, above his own popularity.
Find the full audio of out interview below, and the big points of the interview are transcribed below as well. Austin will also be on tour later this summer and into fall, including some dates with Reverend Peyton's Big Damn Band, so check at the very bottom for those dates.
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Triggerman: How's the Country Throwdown tour been, and how did you get on it?
Austin Lucas: It wasn't a shock to me to be on the Country Throwdown because my booking agent had said it was very probable to be on the tour. The shock for me was because last year the headliner was Montgomery Gentry, and this year Willie Nelson was the headliner. I mean how many opportunities does a person like me, especially from a totally far off distance scene but of course has been a Willie Nelson fan his entire life, get the opportunity to tour with Willie Nelson, an American Icon? I've told people that I peaked on this tour. I don't know that I'll ever do something as great as standing on stage with Willie Nelson. I've sang with him many times on this tour. At the end of the show we all get up on stage and do gospel. I've done it exactly six times, not that I'm counting (laughing).
Triggerman: You're not out here with a band. What they're doing to showcase the up-and-comers is these Nashville Rounds where you're with other songwriters. How's that been as an experience, not just as a songwriter, but as a performer?
Austin Lucas: Most of the people on this tour are not performers, they're Nashville writers. Of course some of them are artists, but the focus of their career thus far has been to write hits for people. And I'm the only one that doesn't live in Nashville. So what's cool about this tour is people are like, "Oh, so you live in Nashville?" and I'm like "No, I'm from the Midwest". I'm from southern Indiana and honestly the common people there believe themselves to be from the South. But geographically speaking, I'm definitely an outsider.
Triggerman: When it comes to the underground country scene, it seems like there's a lot of bands coming from the Midwest and Upper Midwest, and I've always wondered why that is. There is a lot of great Southern bands as well. Some people think I have a conspiracy against Southern bands because I'm always covering people from Indiana, or Michigan, or Minnesota.
Austin Lucas: The potential reasoning for that could be, and it's really unfortunate, but Southern culture has been so substantially mined for stereotypes, and exploited. Everybody expects certain things from Southern bands. Obviously not all Southern bands provide that thing that they're looking for. A lot of the markets there are looking for a certain thing.There's still a lot of radio hanging around, so there's a lot of effort to produce hits. Like whereas when you're coming from Indiana, you're not trying to produce hits, you're just trying to make a record and write songs. There's no hope for us to have hits, so we write the songs that we want, and play music for us.
Triggerman: You said before that you've been touring for 15 years, and you've been working for 5 years on this project specifically. Where did you come from? Explain in brief your music career, where you first picked up a guitar, and are now sharing a stage with Willie Nelson.
Austin Lucas: I started with my dad as a very small child, making music with him. I didn't get serious about it until I was 12 or 13 years old, and that was playing in punk bands. I ruined my voice singing in punk bands and then later metal bands. I was in that scene very deeply, I still am actually and I still do tours, like my band Guided Cradle, were on hiatus right now technically. The guitar player also plays in a band called Hellshock which is a very famous band in our scene. We're just waiting to get the steam to do something else. But basically in 2000 I was singing in a band called Rune, which is a grindcore band that was on Relapse Records, and I just kind of stopped doing it and stated playing acoustic music. So I've actually been at this project for 11 years, but it took me 5 years before I got my voice back.
Triggerman: What was the inspiration for going to acoustic music?
Austin Lucas: For me, it was really hinged on the fact that I was really tired of only hearing that type of music, the metal and punk and stuff. I lived in a house with the other guys from Rune, and literally all they played was Morbid Angel and all these really heavy bands. I just woke up one day and was like "I'm over it." I didn't want to hear it anymore, and so I stopped wanting to play it as much. I still do play it and I love playing it, it is a part of myself that's very intrinsic for my soul. But I didn't want to focus on it anymore. I wanted melody and songwriting. So all the country and bluegrass that I'd been hearing for my whole life basically, I just started trying to write like that. And honestly, Bloomington, Indiana is a big indie rock town, and there was a songwriter Jason Molina of the Magnolia Electric Company, and some of his records were the biggest influence on me. I saw him play for the first time in 2001, and it literally changed my world. He was so dark and evil, but at the same time so beautiful, and that is what I wanted. My last record had two guys from Magnolia Electric Company on it.
Triggerman: You're in the beginning tier of the Country Throwdown tour in these Nashville rounds. You've told me you like to set the bar low and that you might have hit your peak. Could you see yourself in the Lee Brice or Jamey Johnson role on this tour in the future? Or do you even desire that?
Austin Lucas: That's actually a difficult question to answer. My booking agent came to one of the shows and said we should look into getting you out with these guys and I told him, "Don't get me wrong, I love these guys, but I don't think I want this." I would love to go on tour again with Willie Nelson, Merle Haggard, Kris Kristofferson, Jamey Johnson, but I just don't want to ever be in a position where a record label is telling me what to do. And honestly, I don't want to ever walk into a mall and have anyone freak out. Let's put it like this: If I could put myself in the place in my career where I could put out my Red Headed Stranger, and have it be the amount of success that it was, and get the attention and garner the type of following Willie was able to garner, which was a very open-minded segment of country music, then I would be interested in it. (But) I don't know that I want to be as famous as Willie Nelson ever was.
Triggerman: When you first started describing your music to me, you mentioned Americana. Do you feel like that's your niche or where you feel more comfortable?
Austin Lucas: I feel more kinship with Americana artists, or what people call "Americana" artists. If I could pick one singer/songwriter I'd like to go on tour with, I would say Gillian Welch. I feel a little bit more in touch with that kind of scene that really cares about songs.
Triggerman: Anything else you want to add?
Austin Lucas: I'm going to be going on tour soon, and I hope people add me on Facebook, ReverbNation, MySpace and Twitter. If you add me, then you'll know what I do. And I need you to know what I do because I need you to come and see me play. Because honestly, if you don't come out and see me play, then I can't keep coming out and doing it.
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Headlining Tour:
August 20, Columbus, OH @ Rumba cafe
August 21, Groten, NY TBA
August 22, Boston, MA @ Great Scott
August 23, Brooklyn, NY @ Union Hall
August 24, Asbury Park, NJ @ Asbury Lanes
August 25, Washington DC @ the Black Cat (backstage)
August 26, Shepardstown, WV @ Blue Moon Cafe
August 27, Durham, NC @ Motorco Music Hall
August 28, Charleston, SC @ the Tin Roof
August 29, Charlotte, NC @ the Milestone Club
August 30, Atlanta, GA @ 529 Club
August 31, Opelika, AL @ Eighth and Rail
September 2, Oxford, MS @ Blind Pig
September 3, Little Rock, AK @ the White Water Tavern TWO COW GARAGE 10th anniversary party!!!
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You have to give credit to "country" rapper Colt Ford for at least one thing: his boldness. While wearing a grin like a mule eating garlic, he's hoodwinked the country music consumer out of millions of dollars by trashing traditions and self-admittedly having little talent. In some ways I cheer for Colt Ford's success. Hell, lets give him the CMA for Entertainer of the Year. Because his success just proves the point that most of the stuff coming from Music Row is no more than a punch line, and that we are in a headlong sprint toward all popular music coalescing into one big mono-genre presiding over the death of contrast.
I know that Colt Ford is a guilty pleasure for many. Some of his lines are catchy, or whatever. I find it hard to work up any venom for someone who isn't shy about speaking on how much of a gimmick he is. What really gets me hot under the music collar is the who's who of country music that come out of the woodwork to collaborate with this knucklehead. Look at the list of people that signed up to appear on his next album Every Chance I Get: Charlie Daniels, Luke Bryan, Tim McGraw, and my favorite "new Outlaws" Eric Church and Josh Thompson. You can add these names to people like Kevin Fowler, who Colt Ford had running around with women's underwear on his head, or other previous collaborators like Montgomery Gentry, and yes, even the beloved Jamey Johnson.
I expect nothing less from Josh Thompson. If his music is your speed, then don't let my opinionated ass get in your way, but since I roasted him for his stupid "Outlaw" song, it seems like wherever stupid is going down, he's there getting his pony tail stuck in the spokes of it. As for Eric Church, since my first reactions to his music, he's been keeping his nose surprisingly clean, and putting out some songs that I dare say show some promise for being very progressive and engaging. So then why regress to cutting a song called "Country Thang" with the gringo version of Grimace? That's "Thang" with an "A", yo. Word to yo mutha'. Wiggety wa wa.
So please, all the Josh Thompson and Eric Church apologists, explain to me how I'm supposed to overlook this. I thought these were the guys that were Saving Country Music, and I was a fool for not seeing they were the key to upholding traditions. I know, they're just trying to get their name out there, but at what expense?
And why is Colt always associated with these "New Outlaws"? Last year Hank Jr. put Colt Ford on his "Rowdy Friends" tour with the aforementioned Eric Church and Josh Thompson, along with the other "New Outlaw" Gretchen Wilson, and the untouchable Jamey Johnson.
If you want to listen to a true, creative meld of hip hop and country, go listen to some Beck or some Paul's Boutique-era Beastie Boys. But this Colt Ford stuff is garbage, despite a few catchy lines, and as far as I'm concerned, lending your name to a Colt Ford project lands you a card carrying membership to the "Colt Ford Collaboration Blacklist". Here's the names I've amassed so far:
Colt Ford Collaboration Blacklist:
- Eric Church
- Josh Thompson
- Jamey Johnson
- Kevin Fowler
- Charlie Daniels
- Montgomery Gentry
- Tim McGraw
- Luke Bryan
- Trent Tomlinson
- Craig Morgan
- Tyler Farr
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- James Otto
- Randy Houser
- Ty Stone
- Josh Gracin
- Sunny Ledfurd
- Darryl Worley
- Rhett Akins
- Joe Nichols
- Rachel Farley
- Ira Dean
- Jason Aldean (for recording Colt's "Dirt Road Anthem")
- Hank Williams Jr. (for putting him on his "Rowdy Friends" tour)
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1 And it was done, when the people came fast to Jesus, to hear the word of God, he stood beside the pool of Gennesaret [and he stood beside the standing water of Gennesaret], | 1 One day as Jesus was standing by the Lake of Gennesaret, with the people crowding around him and listening to the word of God, |
2 and saw two boats standing beside the pool; and the fishers were gone down, and washed their nets. [and saw two boats standing beside the standing water; soothly the fishers had gone down, and washed nets.] | 2 he saw at the water's edge two boats, left there by the fishermen, who were washing their nets. |
3 And he went up into a boat, that was Simon's, and prayed him to lead it a little from the land; and he sat, and taught the people out of the boat. | 3 He got into one of the boats, the one belonging to Simon, and asked him to put out a little from shore. Then he sat down and taught the people from the boat. |
4 And as he ceased to speak, he said to Simon, Lead out into the depth, and slack your nets to take fish [and slake ye your nets into the taking]. | 4 When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, "Put out into deep water, and let down the nets for a catch." |
5 And Simon answered, and said to him [And Simon answering said to him], Commander, we travailed all the night, and took nothing, but in thy word I shall lay out the net. | 5 Simon answered, "Master, we've worked hard all night and haven't caught anything. But because you say so, I will let down the nets." |
6 And when they had done this thing, they closed together a great multitude of fishes; and their net was broken. | 6 When they had done so, they caught such a large number of fish that their nets began to break. |
7 And they beckoned to fellows, that were in another boat, that they should come, and help them. And they came, and filled both the boats, so that they were almost drowned. | 7 So they signaled their partners in the other boat to come and help them, and they came and filled both boats so full that they began to sink. |
8 And when Simon Peter saw this thing, he felled down to the knees of Jesus, and said [saying], Lord, go from me, for I am a sinful man. | 8 When Simon Peter saw this, he fell at Jesus' knees and said, "Go away from me, Lord; I am a sinful man!" |
9 For he was on each side astonished, and all that were with him, in the taking of fishes which they took. | 9 For he and all his companions were astonished at the catch of fish they had taken, |
10 Soothly in like manner James and John, the sons of Zebedee, that were fellows of Simon Peter [which were fellows of Simon Peter]. And Jesus said to Simon, Do not thou dread; now from this time thou shalt take men. | 10 and so were James and John, the sons of Zebedee, Simon's partners. Then Jesus said to Simon, "Don't be afraid; from now on you will catch men." |
11 And when the boats were led up to the land, they left all things, and they followed him. [And the boats led up to the land, all things left, or forsaken, they followed him.] | 11 So they pulled their boats up on shore, left everything and followed him. |
12 And it was done, when he was in one of the cities, lo! a man full of leprosy; and seeing Jesus fell down on his face, and prayed him, and said [saying], Lord, if thou wilt, thou mayest make me clean. | 12 While Jesus was in one of the towns, a man came along who was covered with leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell with his face to the ground and begged him, "Lord, if you are willing, you can make me clean." |
13 And Jesus held forth his hand, and touched him, and said [saying], I will, be thou made clean. And at once [And anon] the leprosy passed away from him. | 13 Jesus reached out his hand and touched the man. "I am willing," he said. "Be clean!" And immediately the leprosy left him. |
14 And Jesus commanded to him, that he should say to no man; But go, show thee to a priest, and offer for thy cleansing, as Moses bade, into witnessing to them. | 14 Then Jesus ordered him, "Don't tell anyone, but go, show yourself to the priest and offer the sacrifices that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them." |
15 And the word walked about the more of him; and much people [and many companies] came together, to hear, and to be healed of their sicknesses. | 15 Yet the news about him spread all the more, so that crowds of people came to hear him and to be healed of their sicknesses. |
16 And he went into desert, and prayed. | 16 But Jesus often withdrew to lonely places and prayed. |
17 And it was done in one of the days, he sat, and taught [and he sitting taught]; and there were Pharisees sitting, and doctors of the law, that came of each castle of Galilee, and of Judaea, and of Jerusalem [+that came from each castle of Galilee, and Judaea, and Jerusalem]; and the virtue of the Lord was to heal sick men. | 17 One day as he was teaching, Pharisees and teachers of the law, who had come from every village of Galilee and from Judea and Jerusalem, were sitting there. And the power of the Lord was present for him to heal the sick. |
18 And lo! men bare in a bed a man that was sick in the palsy [that was sick in palsy], and they sought to bear him in, and set before him [and to put before him]. | 18 Some men came carrying a paralytic on a mat and tried to take him into the house to lay him before Jesus. |
19 And they found not in what part they should bear him in, for the people, and they went upon the roof [And they not finding in what part they should bear him in, for the company of people, ascended up on the roof], and by the slates they let him down with the bed, into the midst, before Jesus. | 19 When they could not find a way to do this because of the crowd, they went up on the roof and lowered him on his mat through the tiles into the middle of the crowd, right in front of Jesus. |
20 And when Jesus saw the faith of them, he said, Man, thy sins be forgiven to thee. | 20 When Jesus saw their faith, he said, "Friend, your sins are forgiven." |
21 And the scribes and the Pharisees began to think, saying, Who is this, that speaketh blasphemies? who may forgive sins, but God alone? | 21 The Pharisees and the teachers of the law began thinking to themselves, "Who is this fellow who speaks blasphemy? Who can forgive sins but God alone?" |
22 And as Jesus knew the thoughts of them, he answered, and said to them [he answering said to them], What think ye evil things in your hearts? | 22 Jesus knew what they were thinking and asked, "Why are you thinking these things in your hearts? |
23 What is lighter to say, Sins be forgiven to thee, or to say, Rise up, and walk? | 23 Which is easier: to say, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Get up and walk'? |
24 But that ye know, that man's Son hath power in earth to forgive sins, he said to the sick man in palsy, I say to thee, rise up, take thy bed, and go into thine house. | 24 But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins . . ." He said to the paralyzed man, "I tell you, get up, take your mat and go home." |
25 And at once [And anon] he rose up before them, and took the bed in which he lay, and went into his house, and magnified God [magnifying God]. | 25 Immediately he stood up in front of them, took what he had been lying on and went home praising God. |
26 And great wonder took all, and they magnified God; and they were full-filled with great dread, and said [+and were filled with great dread, saying], For we have seen marvelous things to day. | 26 Everyone was amazed and gave praise to God. They were filled with awe and said, "We have seen remarkable things today." |
27 And after these things Jesus went out, and saw a publican, Levi by name, sitting at the tollbooth. And he said to him, Follow thou me; | 27 After this, Jesus went out and saw a tax collector by the name of Levi sitting at his tax booth. "Follow me," Jesus said to him, |
28 and when he had left all things, he rose up, and followed him. | 28 and Levi got up, left everything and followed him. |
29 And Levi made to him a great feast in his house; and there was a great company of publicans, and of others that were with them, sitting at the meat. | 29 Then Levi held a great banquet for Jesus at his house, and a large crowd of tax collectors and others were eating with them. |
30 And the Pharisees and the scribes of them grumbled, and said to his disciples [And Pharisees and the scribes of them grutched, saying to his disciples], Why eat ye and drink with publicans and sinful men? | 30 But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law who belonged to their sect complained to his disciples, "Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and 'sinners'?" |
31 And Jesus answered, and said to them, They that be whole have no need to a physician, but they that be sick; [And Jesus answering saith to them, They that be whole have not need to a leech, but they that have evil;] | 31 Jesus answered them, "It is not the healthy who need a doctor, but the sick. |
32 for I came not to call just men, but sinful men to penance. | 32 I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." |
33 And they said to him, Why the disciples of John fast oft, and make prayers, also and of the Pharisees, but thine eat and drink? | 33 They said to him, "John's disciples often fast and pray, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours go on eating and drinking." |
34 To whom he said, Whether ye be able to make the sons of the spouse to fast [Whether ye may make the sons of the spouse to fast], while the spouse is with them? | 34 Jesus answered, "Can you make the guests of the bridegroom fast while he is with them? |
35 But days shall come, when the spouse shall be taken away from them, and then they shall fast in those days. | 35 But the time will come when the bridegroom will be taken from them; in those days they will fast." |
36 And he said to them also a likeness; For no man taketh a piece from a new cloak [of a new cloth], and putteth it into an old clothing [and putteth it into an old cloth]; else both he breaketh the new, and the piece of the new accordeth not to the old. | 36 He told them this parable: "No one tears a patch from a new garment and sews it on an old one. If he does, he will have torn the new garment, and the patch from the new will not match the old. |
37 And no man putteth new wine into old bottles; else the new wine shall break the bottles, and the wine shall be shed out, and the bottles shall perish. | 37 And no one pours new wine into old wineskins. If he does, the new wine will burst the skins, the wine will run out and the wineskins will be ruined. |
38 But new wine oweth to be put into new bottles [But new wine is to be put into new wine vessels], and both be kept. | 38 No, new wine must be poured into new wineskins. |
39 And no man drinking the old, will at once the new; for he saith, The old is the better. [And no man drinking old, will anon new; soothly he saith, The old is better.] | 39 And no one after drinking old wine wants the new, for he says, 'The old is better.' " |
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It appears the season opening football game between Kentucky and Western Kentucky will be the last between the two schools for a while. Reports out of Bowling Green say that WKU Athletic Director Todd Stewart says he and UK Athletic Director Mitch Barnhart have agreed to take some time off in the series after this year's contest.
The game in Nashville, is the final game of a four game series that started in 2010 in Lexington. Stewart did go on to say that he hopes discussions will begin in the not to distant future about running the series. Stewart noted the two schools want to allow the conference realignments to shake out, and to resolved the number of conference games that schools will have to play. The SEC has been looking at the possibility of moving up to a nine game conference schedule, which would take away one game of the non-conference portion of Kentucky's schedule.
Western's first ever game against UK came in 2008. The next year, the schools announced a deal that called for two games at Commonwealth Stadium and two in Nashville in alternating years. Western's only win in the series came last year, when the Hilltoppers shocked Kentucky in overtime, 32-31.
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posted by: yesican on 07.12.2010 at 08:18 pm in Retirement Forum I'm very confused on choosing a Part B provider. I've been looking at a plan with one company and my daughter who is a nurse says she has no faith in the doctors that accept Medicare under this plan. According to my understanding there are only 5 doctors for our county. If I went with another insurance company would the doctors be different?
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Regrettably, and we mean that sincerely, we wish we had more positive comments to convey, but alas, we don't. The data provided don't change the reality about skin care and the ingredients that can have an impact on skin. SK-II products are hardly worth the price, especially when compared to Olay Regenerist and Definity (P&G's own drugstore line of skin-care products). In fact, it takes only a quick review of the formulas to note that many SK-II items are very similar to Olay Regenerist items, except that the latter don't include Pitera, the supposedly miracle ingredient in this line. Yet there is minimal research indicating that Pitera is even helpful for skin.
Pitera is the cornerstone of the SK-II line and is present in every SK-II product. Pitera is the trade name for Saccharomycopsis ferment filtrate (SFF), a form of yeast purportedly unique because of the fermenting and filtering process it goes through before being added to these products. As it turns out, many forms of yeast have anti-inflammatory properties and antioxidant properties, including SFF (Source: Journal of Dermatologic Science, June 2006, pages 249–257). Other than that, all of the information about Pitera comes from papers presented at medical conferences, not from published studies. Presenting papers at medical conferences is not at all the same thing as publishing the results of studies. We frequently present papers and information at medical conferences, and we wouldn't offer that material as proof of anything because it isn't. The standards for presenting a paper at a medical conference are very different from the requirements for publication of study results in most medical journals.
To give P&G the benefit of the doubt, even if Pitera is a wonder ingredient, this doesn't explain how it rates when compared with other "wonder" ingredients because there are no comparison studies. Hundreds of ingredients—ranging from green tea to superoxide dismutase, epigallocatechin-3-gallate, eicosapentaenoic acid, beta-carotene, pomegranate, and curcumin to vitamin E, vitamin A, and on and on and on—have stellar reputations, and there's copious documentation to prove it.
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Wins In The Lower Minors
Wins all around for the rest of the Pirates' minor leaguers:
Altoona Curve 10, Erie Seawolves 7
(box score)
Three home runs and a 4-run 2nd inning sparked the Curve to their second win of the season on Sunday afternoon. The scoring got started in the top of the 1st, when 2B opened the game with a single, moved to third on CF Starling Marte's double, and scored on SS Jordy Mercer's RBI ground out. The Curve made it 5-1 with 4 more runs in the 2nd. DH Eric Fryer led off with a walk, but was forced out at second on RF Jose Hernandez's grounder, though they avoided the double play. Holt singled, then stole second base, giving the Curve two runners in scoring position. Hernandez scored on Marte's RBI ground out, Mercer drove in Holt with a double, and C Tony Sanchez followed with his first homer of the season, driving in Mercer as well.
The Curve tacked on another run in each of the next two innings. 3B Jeremy Farrell reached base on a throwing error in the 3rd, and scored on Hernandez's double. Marte led off the 4th with a solo home run. They took a break for two innings, then Farrell added his 2-run homer in the 7th, bringing in Sanchez, who had singled. Altoona's final run came in the top of the 9th, with a two-out double by LF Quincy Latimore, an intentional walk by Farrell, and an RBI single by Fryer.
Holt had 3 hits in the game, raising his average to .400. Marte (.375), Sanchez (.300), and Farrell (.313) each had 2 hits.
Jared Hughes made the start for the Curve. He pitched 4 innings, and allowed 3 runs. A double and a single gave Erie one run in the 2nd inning, then a walk, a double, and two ground outs scored two runs in the 3rd. Mike Colla relieved Hughes to begin the 5th. A hit batter and a triple gave the Sea Wolves one run in the 6th, but Colla kept Erie from scoring in his other two innings. Anthony Claggett pitched the 8th inning and gave up two home runs — a solo homer to open the inning, then a 2-run homer after a single. Noah Krol took the 9th, and loaded the bases with a walk and two singles, but got out of the jam with a strikeout and a game-ending double play. Colla earned the win, and Krol earned the Save.
Thompson And Curve Get The Win
It's like they said in the movie "Bull Durham": some days you win, some days you lose, some days it rains. Again on Saturday, the Pirates' lower minor league affiliates experienced all three.
It rained again in West Virginia. The Power and the Savannah Sand Gnats will try for a double header again on Sunday. As best as I can tell, Friday's game has been "cancelled" and won't be made up.
The win:
Altoona Curve 6, Erie SeaWolves 2
(box score)
The Curve finally put one in the win column, as they out-hit the SeaWolves 14 – 3 on Saturday afternoon. All but one member of the starting line-up had at least one hit, and while C Eric Fryer didn't smack a hit, he contributed two walks and scored a run. CF Starling Marte, who had been hitless in the Curve's first two games, led the onslaught with 4 hits — 3 singles and a double. 2B Brock Holt, DH Kris Watts, and 3B Jeremy Farrell all had two hits, and Holt and Farrell each drove in two runs.
Erie scored the first run of the game in the bottom of the 1st, on an infield single by the first batter of the game, followed by a bunt and a balk by starter Aaron Thompson, and an RBI ground out. Thompson settled in after that, and did not allow another run nor another hit. He walked one and struck out two in his 6 innings of work.
The Curve tied the game in the 3rd inning. Fryer walked, then came around to score on a wild pitch. They took the lead in the 6th, when Marte doubled. SS Jordy Mercer singled, driving in Marte. Watts also singled, and he scored moments later when Farrell singled. RF Brad Chalk added another run in the 7th — he tripled, then came across the plate on Holt's RBI single. The Curve rallied again in the 8th, for two more insurance runs. Watts started with his second single. Farrell brought him home with a double, and Holt followed up with an RBI single to plate Farrell.
Reliever Brian Leach pitched a scoreless 7th inning and began the 8th, allowing a single. Michael Dubee took over for Leach, but the runner scored on an RBI single. Dubee also pitched a perfect 9th, earning his first save. Thompson earned the win.
Two Hits Each For Latimore, Snyder, Rubinstein, And Power
All of the Pirates' minor league affiliates lost their season openers on Thursday night:
Erie SeaWolves 3, Altoona Curve 2
One run in the bottom of the 9th made the difference, as the Curve lost in Erie, PA. The SeaWolves were first onto the scoreboard with a pair of runs in the 5th inning. Curve starter Bryan Morris had already escaped from two jams in the early innings. In the 2nd, RF Brad Chalk threw out a runner who was trying to stretch a double into a triple, then Chalk ended the inning when he threw to C Tony Sanchez to nail a runner who was trying to score from second base on a single. Morris loaded the bases in the 4th with a single and two walks, but a timely double play, 3B Jeremy Farrell to 2B Brock Holt, to 1B Miles Durham, ended that inning without a run scoring. Morris' luck ran out in the 5th, though, when a walk and a 2-run homer gave Erie a 2-0 lead.
The Curve missed a scoring opportunity in the top of the 2nd, when Sanchez singled into left field, and LF Quincy Latimore lined a double just out of the reach of the Erie left fielder. But with runners on second and third, Erie starter Jacob Turner struck out both Farrell and DH Eric Fryer to end the inning. Turner allowed only two base runners for the next 4 innings — he walked Holt, and he hit Sanchez with a pitch. (Sanchez has got to stop being a magnet for opposing pitchers' pitches.) After Turner left the game, the Curve were able to put men on base again. Farrell singled and Fryer walked in the 7th, though they didn't score. The 8th inning began with back-to-back walks to Holt and CF Starling Marte. SS Jordy Mercer bunted them over to second and third, then another walk to Sanchez loaded the bases. Latimore came through again, with another double off the left field wall, missing a grand slam by inches, to plate both Holt and Marte and tie the game at 2-2.
Reliever Anthony Claggett finished the 5th inning for Morris with a strikeout and a pickoff of one of the runners Morris had put on base. Aaron Pribanic and Jared Hughes each pitched a perfect inning, with one strikeout for Pribanic and two for Hughes. Michael Dubee struck out the side in the 8th inning to preserve the tie. The Curve batters could not get anything going in the top of the 9th, though, and Dubee came back out to pitch the bottom of the 9th. With one out, a single and a stolen base put a runner in scoring position, and a ground out moved him to third base. Then a sinking line drive, just inches away from the diving Latimore's glove, fell in for a hit, scoring the runner from third base for the walk-off win.
Dubee was charged with the loss. Morris got a no-decision, with 2 runs on 4 hits and 5 walks, plus 3 strikeouts, in 4.1 innings. The Curve had just 4 hits, two of them doubles by Latimore.
Busy Day For Pirates; Indians Win 8-3
The Pirates had a busy Spring Training day today:
LHP (starter) Garrett Olson was claimed off waivers from Seattle. Olson is a 27-year-old California native who was the Orioles' 1st round pick in the 2005 draft. He made his major league debut in July 2007, and split both the 2007 and 2008 season between Balitmore and AAA Norfolk. His combined stats for Baltimore: 10-13 record in 31 starts, 165 innings, 6.87 ERA, 111 K, 90 BB. And combined stats for Norfolk: 10-9 record in 29 starts, 164.1 innings, 3.12 ERA, 159 K, 55 BB. One big problem, though, is that he surrendered 35 homer runs over those two years. At the beginning of 2009, Olson was traded to the Cubs, and 10 days later was traded to the Mariners (with Ronny Cedeno) to the Mariners. He split both the 2009 and 2010 seasons between Seattle and AAA Tacoma. In 2009, he started 9 games for Tacoma, earning a 2-3 record and a 4.94 ERA, but in Seattle, he was also used in relief. He made 11 starts and 20 relief appearances for a total of 80.1 innings — and gave up 19 home runs. Olson made 6 starts and 6 relief appearances for Tacoma in 2010, then made 35 relief appearances in Seattle. His record in Seattle was 0-3 with 1 save, and a 4.54 ERA. In 37.2 innings, he allowed 6 homers, 15 BB, with 21 K. Throughout all these seasons, Olson allowed about as many or more hits as innings pitched: 79 hits in 80.1 innings in Seattle in 2009, and 42 hits in 37.2 innings in 2010. His overall major league total is 10.53 hits/9 innings. The Pirates plan to have Olson compete for a spot as a lefty out of the bullpen. Scott Olsen (oh, we're going to have fun confusing those two) and Joe Beimel are also in consideration but have lost time time this spring due to injury. Brian Burres and Justin Thomas are also in the mix. In order to make a spot for Olson on the 40-man roster, the Pirates placed Kevin Hart on the 60-day DL. Olson is out of options, which is why the Mariners had to put him on waivers. If he does not make the Pirates' active roster out of camp, then he will have to go on waivers again. The hits and the homers are concerning, and the Pirates will have to see how Olson does in some spring appearances in the next two weeks.
Phillies 3, Pirates 2
The Phillies rallied in the bottom of the 9th for a come-from-behind win over the Pirates in Clearwater, FL this afternoon. With Chris Leroux on the mound, the first two batters of the frame both singles. Former Pirate/Indian Erik Kratz bounced a pinch-hit grounder to third, but instead of going for the double play, 3B Jeremy Farrell went for the tag of the runner going from second to third. The runner avoided the tag but was called out anyway because he went out of the basepath. That left runners on first and second with one out. The next batter slapped a grounder to second, and though 2B Josh Harrison made a great stab to keep the ball from going into right field, he was only able to make the out at first. With two runners in scoring position, Leroux gave up a single up the middle, and both runners (including Kratz) scored, for the walk-off win.
2011 Prospect Watching: Farrell, Alvarez, Colonel
Moving along with the third basemen in the Pirates' minor league organization. Two new faces today, plus a familiar friend:
Jeremy Farrell — R/R, 6′ 3″, 200 lb
The Pirates selected Farrell in the 8th round of the 2008 draft. His playing time has been limited by a series of injuries, so that he's only played in 73 games and 79 games in his two full years of pro ball. In 2010, it was knee problems. He began the season on fire in A+ Bradenton, hitting .315 in April and .327 in May, with a combined 7 homers and 33 RBI. In June, the knee got bad, had to be drained, then got infected. Farrell was out of the lineup until August, but when he returned, he went right back to hitting, though without the modest power he'd had earlier in the season — .333 in August, but with no homers and just 6 RBI. He did strike out less in August. Farrell played some first base in State College in 2008, but has been exclusively at third in the two seasons since. He's made 25 and 20 errors at third over those two season (respectively), and that's going to have to improve. Farrell will likely be moved up to AA Altoona for 2011, where his two main jobs will be to cut back those errors and to stay healthy.


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A local domestic violence shelter is one of six pilot shelters in the state to throw out its rule book and try a new type of management. Albion Bacon Fellows Center's new model focuses on individual case management, replacing the punishment and demerit system for violating rules. Now residents no longer receive demerits for actions such as missing curfew, drinking alcohol, and failing to clean their bed spaces. Instead, shelter workers are developing a stronger partnership with residents and gaining valuable time that used to be spent on demerit paperwork and enforcements. Next year, the pilot shelters will present their findings to the Indiana Coalition Against Domestic Violence, which will decide if the system should be implemented at other shelters.


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