Thank goodness the weekend is here.

Wow, it's almost the end of the month already. How did that happen?

Today my father got into a car accident while driving my car. No one was hurt, thank god, but Sam's front fender and left headlight are all smashed to hell. My father didn't even want me to look at it and took it straight down to the bodyshop. Now we have a fugly rental that smells like dead hooker. Woe. :(

A couple of home-town heroes tonight. The first is Casey Hurt, a gentleman I met waaaaaay back in junior high. He showed up my 8th grade year and kind of infiltrated our little bus group (go Bus 12!). Anyway, sang with him in choir in high school before he took off for parts unknown, reappearing a few years later back in Corvallis. He's a singer-songwriter along the lines of...uh, any guy you've heard with a guitar in the last ten years. If you know me you'll know why it pains me to make this comparison, but if you like Mason Jennings or Jason Manns you'll like Casey. He's got a beautiful, sweet voice and he's really passionate about his music. Both of these songs are from his most recent release Letters from a Friend (available on iTunes)/plug. I believe his wife Lauren is doing backing vocals on "Get Back to Ya."

"Get Back to Ya"
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"Seven Seas"
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I've talked about Tatiana Hargreaves before. I met Tatiana at a house concert her folks hosted two years ago, when she was already playing fiddle with the likes of Bruce Molsky (who performs with her on "Grub Springs"), Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz. She's fourteen now and released her first album earlier this year. Her brother, Alex Hargreaves, also plays and joins her on "Shaking Down the Acorns." Last year Tatiana became the youngest ever fiddle player to win the Championship Division of the Oregon Oldtime Fiddlers Contest. She has an amazing gift and I'm eager to see where she follows it.

"Grub Springs"
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"Shaking Down the Acorns"
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