Friday, November 4, 2022

Gospel by the Petersens

Fairly recent numbers by the band
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRTSFgot_wgqwj_ayMJhvyWIi4HYt_laa

Their gospel album, Homesick for a Country, is available via their web site.
This post is also found on GRIST.

Thursday, November 3, 2022

Multi-skilled Ellen: Media point-woman

And she looks, as always, simply smashing!?!

Ellen takes the mike

Interview of Ellen promoting the Petersens' Christmas show
In response to a pointed question, Ellen makes clear that Katie and Emmett are the team that handle the arrangements. Katie is the chief arranger, molding some of Emmett's many suggestions into reality. Mom contributes to some extent because of her expertise in music theory.
Everyone else in the band -- including brother Matt and sister Julianne -- voluntarily takes a back seat in that department.
Previously Matt has strongly asserted that Katie is boss of all arrangements.
But how seriously should we take such light-hearted disclosures? Entertainment news is more about entertaining the public than informing the public.
And what we are told here is not exactly in the same league as Stevie Nicks talking about cheating on her boyfriend with a band member while doing up loads of cocaine.

Ozark of the Ozarks

Sign in Finley River Park, Ozark, Mo.:
CHRISTIAN COUNTY
Deep in the Missouri Ozarks, Chris County, organized 1859, was one of 3 of the State's 114 counties to be formed. At the request of pioneer Mrs. Thomas Neaves it was named for her native [Tennessee] County honoring Rev. War Col. Will Christian. Ozark, platted in 1843 by J. and A. N. Farmer near a mill on beautiful spring fed Finley Creek, became county seat and J. C. Inman laid out an addition. Ozark, a thriving town in the 1850's with a fine academy, Ozark High School, was Union post in the Civil War. An attack was repulsed in Aug., 1862, and in Jan., 1863 the town was evacuated at the approach o General Joseph O. Shelby who burned a blockhouse there. During the war, guerrilla bands and troops raided the countryside. To combat lawlessness following the war, the Bald Knobbers, organized as a law and order group, first met on a bald knobbed hill in adjacent Taney County in 1885. In time a number of Bald Knobbers were themselves accused of lawlessness ana number of trials were held in Ozark. a 3 members were executed there, May, 1889. (See other side) Erected by State Historical Society of Missouri and State Highway Commission. 1958
CHRISTIAN COUNTY (Continued from other side)
Among the hills, valleys, and plains of Christian County are many earth mounds and rock cairns from prehistoric days. In modern times, Osage tribes ceded claims to the region, 1808. Delaware Indians held a land grant in the area, 1818-1829. Their trading post was near Ozark. In the early 1820's, Ohioans settled in the county and Tenn. and Ky. pioneers came in the 1830's. The town of Ozark, whose name derives from the French "Aux Arcs," meaning in the country of the Arkansas, serves a tomato, fruit, livestock, dairy, and poultry farming county. In 1883 the Chadwick branch of the Frisco Railroad reached Ozark. North of Ozark, in a beautiful setting, is Smallin's Cave having one of the largest openings in Missouri. Explorer Henry R. Schoolcraft, who visited the cave in 1818, called it "Winoca." Northwest at Billings a marker recalls the days when the stages of the Butterfield Overland Mail stopped at Ashmore's Relay Station, 1858-1861. Part of southeast Christian County is in Mark Twain National Forest. Over the line in Greene County is Wilson's Creek Battlefield.
Erected by State Historical Society of Missouri and State Highway Commission, 1958

Kid Dynamite

Well, hey, when I said that Katie is a terrific scene-stealer, I surely did not mean she was doing anything uncool. Nor did I mean that either of her sisters was somehow not highly attractive and professional.

What I was getting at is that, being a born leader, the girl can't help it! She just can't help it!

Tuesday, November 1, 2022

Boo!

Desperado

Clearly Katie does a fabulous job here. I'm a tad disappointed that the number was taken away from Ellen. With more encouragement, and help on the arrangement, that one might have been a new signature number for her. Tho Katie truly OWNS that number now, even so it still has "Ellen" written all over it. Obviously I do understand that a professional decision was made when work needed to get done. (There is no criticism of Katie intended here; she's always the best!!!)

chek out dat rock mando