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2008. I can't believe it - 2008. I'd honestly like to know how
many of my friends out there thought they'd live to see - 2008.
2008!!! And I just celebrated my 45th birthday. 45. 45! 45!!
Sheeeeiiiitttt).

Well, it's a mixed blessing. I lost my mom in
'07 - that has to be the toughest time I've ever been through.
Those of you who knew my mom will readily understand where the
music came from. Those of you who know my dad will understand
why the well never runs dry, Dad likes to work on old cars, and
I like to work on old pinball machines, and we're Irish, so we
both like to drink.

I was working on an album of train songs
(the modern world calls 'em CDs, but I still call 'em albums).
But when I lost Mom, I started thinking about that part of
America that's goin' away... Waylon Jennings , Johnny Carson,
Carroll O'Connor, Don Knotts, Roger Miller, Frank Sinatra,
Robert Filloon (my friend in Houston who worked 60 hours a
week for the Union Pacific Railroad, but still came out to my
shows and wanted to hear train songs), Faron Young,
John Lennon, Dean Martin, Lefty Frizzell, Lyndon Johnson,
Mitch Hedberg, Brother Dave Gardner, Dan Fogelberg, Elmer
Richardson (my grandfather, who spent his pre-retirement
years doing what he could to help American veterans at the
VA hospital in Waco... and from whom, I'm told, I inherited my
temper), Wynn Stewart, Townes Van Zandt, Lucille Ball, John
Ritter, George Harrison, Ernest Tubb, J.D. and Gladys Everett
(my uncle and aunt, who devoted their lives as Baptist
evangelists to trudging through the mud and muck of remote
central Texas, delivering babies, eulogies, and sermons to
help make the path a little lighter for those whose lives
they touched), Ronald Reagan, Jim Croce, Bill Hicks, Jimmy
Stewart, Chris LeDoux, John Wayne, Gary Stewart, B.W. Stevenson
(my old friend, and one of the first to encourage me to pursue
a career in music - if he wasn't already dead, I'd KILL him),
well... I could go on. My brother Gary and I, we were always
listening to music and looking for answers. Gary turned me
onto "progressive country" music. I wish he'd been around
to hear Angels & Outlaws, Heavy Weather, and Border Radio.
He would have liked some of it... and given me a hard time about
the rest. Well, time marches on.

I ain't gonna lie to you, I miss my mama.

So, I've been working on this new albu... uhhhh... CD. It's called
"Along Old Fencelines". The title cut goes like this:

Along old fence lines
truth rings like the music of a mockingbird,
and a man is still as worthy as his word...
along old fence lines.
And I see my grandpa resting by that old Artesian well,
ah, there's watermelon dripping down my chin,
the ladies in their finest dresses are coming out for church,
and so I guess it must be Wednesday evening...
along old fence lines.

Across old bridges
are fragments of a world that didn't turn so fast,
but if you were in a hurry, friend, they'd let you pass...
across old bridges.
And I see those kids on Shetland ponies out near Clifton's Store,
the old men playing checkers by the gate,
Haggard's singin' "Mama Tried" somewhere along the dial,
and so I guess it must be about 1968...
across old bridges.

There's a place between this two-lane highway and the past,
where old friends pass gently through my mind.
I see them for a moment, then they slowly slip away,
and melt back through the distant lens of time,
along old fencelines...
across old bridges...
down old dirt roads...
along old fencelines.

That part of America that's going away... that we're throwing
away... that doesn't mean anything to most folks today... It
still means EVERYTHING to me, and that's what the next BB CD
is all about. "Along Old Fencelines"... 'Nuff said.

Okay, so everyone knows we've been raising money for Rusty
over the past few weeks. Well, I'm proud to announce that
Rusty's friends Davin James, Bob Livingston, Ronny Spears,
Tommy Alverson, Big John Mills, Randy Meadows, Missoula Slim,
Matt Thigpen, and many, many more... will be converging in
Houston on Sunday, January 27th for a concert extravaganza,
along with yours truly, to raise a few more bucks. Besaw's
Café in La Porte will host the next Rusty benefit, and we
need YOU to come out and help Rusty on his way to a full and
speedy recovery from liver cancer. We're all committed to
having one helluva good time... auctioning off CDs, t-shirts,
etc... telling Rusty stories that so far, only the CIA has been
privy to, singing songs that are illegal in the other 49 states
of The Union, and (I believe), hearing (and hugging) Rusty
himself. As of this writing, I just got home from the benefit
in Dallas, and I can tell you that Rusty was there in rare form
and good spirits... and did one HELLUVA show.

Meanwhile, I hope some of you will join us at The Back Porch
Grill & Tavern this Friday night (1/11) at 9:00 PM for a few
songs from BB's next CD, along with some old songs from BB's
previous CDs.

On Saturday (1/12) I will return to one of my favorite
venues: the Crossroads Coffeehouse & Music Co. in beautiful
Winnsboro, TX. The CC&M is truly one of the finest listening
rooms in the Lone Star State, always a magical night of wine
and music in East Texas.

Lots of cool stuff coming up in '08, but for now, that's it.
Gotta go play some pinball... that's a wrap.

God Bless.
--BB

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