morning ride and Telluride

Sometimes I walk to work in the morning and sometimes I take the bus. Today was a bus day. I got a little distracted on the computer before work. Today I saw my favourite family on the bus. The person who is always on the bus is a little, hmm, 4 year old girl who smiles and talks more than anyone I know. She's so cute. Sometimes her mom takes her to school and sometimes it's her daddy. When her mom comes she brings her little sister called Rebecca. Rebecca is about oh, 4 months old. The family gets off at the same stop that I do--right next to Royal China. Royal China is a really disgusting Chinese resturant that some of my coworkers adore. All of the Americans in the office think that it is gross.

Oh I just found out the preliminary line up for Telluride this summer. Ah, at times like this I really wish that I lived in the STates. The next summer that I'm living in the States I am going to Telluride.
Béla, Sam, Jerry, Edgar, Bryan Alison Krauss & Union Station featuring Jerry Douglas Sam Bush Band Chick Corea & Béla Fleck Emmylou Harris Tony Rice & Alison Krauss & Union Station Béla Fleck & the Flecktones Yonder Mountain String Band Jerry Douglas Band Chris Thile & How to Grow a Band featuring Bryan Sutton Edgar Meyer & Chris Thile John Cowan Band Dougie MacLean Band Peter Rowan & Crucial Country Jackie Green Mike Marshall & Hamilton de Holanda Sparrow Quartet Crooked Still Infamous Stringdusters Avett Brothers Greensky Bluegrass

Couple of interesting points.
Tony Rice (Grandaddy of the bluegrass guitar) is playing with Alison Krauss and Union Station. It's some sort of tribute, celebrating Rice's 35 year career. I actually haven't listened to that much Rice. My daddy has some of his albums. Perhaps I'll load them onto my computer when I'm home for Christmas. Ah, can't wait to get out of this foreign land and home for Christmas.

More importantly, Thile and the How to Grow A Band are still using Brian Sutton as their guitar player and his name is in the band title. Now, my understading was that they were using Sutton to fill in for Eldridge while Eldridge was on tour with the Infamous Stringdusters. Now, the Stringdusters are also playing at Telluride, so why isnt' Eldridge playing with the How to Grow a Band. Is he ever going to rejoin? I'm also interseted in how it works on the business side with the B-artists. I'm not talkign about the A artists, Alison, Chris, or the C artists--Barry Bales, Noam Pikelmy, etc, but the B guys, Tony Rice, Brian Sutton, Jerry Douglas. (Apologies for calling Jerry Douglas a B artist). What cut of the check do those guys get? And yes they are really good, but why are their bands never as good as the A artist bands.

I'm really proud of Crooked STill for getting an invite to Telluride. Go little Boston band! Their sound is so unique. I can't wait to see them in London in January. Jed and I are going to see them. Props to them for making trip over here. They actually tour Europe frequently.

What I would give to hear the Bela, Sam, Jerry, Edgar, and Brian set.

Okay, time to stop lusting after Telluride.