Let’s go back to the night of June 19th, 2010. At a concert I produced for Ramblin’ Jack Elliott, a guy comes up to me and introduces himself, appearing stately, with a hat on and wearing camera equipment on both sides of himself! He hands me his card and we meet about a month or so after the concert to go over some photographs he shot backstage with Jack and myself. The photos were amazing and we have since become great friends! His name is Doug Webb and he is the head of Connect Artists. I would soon find out that he had been doing web and video work for Garland since 2008! He had also created an online fan site dedicated to all things Garland called Wild In The Streets! I had an immediate nickname for him and called him Webb on Web.

Before I head over to the big book release launch party http://www.blueguitarhighway.com/ at The Ritz Theater http://www.ritzdolls.com/ to get an autograph from the man himself, I would like to share my two cents worth. I picked up my copy at http://www.magersandquinn.com/ Booksellers upon release date and skimmed through it once, flipped it back over and then, like holding a new born baby for the first time, couldn’t let it out of my hands!

Saturday night, August 20th, around 8pm, I am talking with Meaghan Owens from Guitars For Vets at the souvenir/information stand during the Wolfe Park Blood On The Tracks Live concert in St. Louis Park about how to increase the donations from the previous show we did at Town Green in Maple Grove on Wednesday. I asked her what they usually put the donations in? She said the little black case that is on the table that was also doubling up as a CD holder for the evening. She also said they can put the money in that old broken guitar as well that was leaning up against the table. It was donated to the Guitars For Vets by John Reimann. I went over to the guitar and handed it to my 10 year old niece Basha Goldwater who was also helping out with the merchandise table and said let’s go! I told her to try walking up and down the aisles with the guitar and I will follow.