After all these years now of doing this, Al has never met Guy Nouri. So, during our time up in New York we wanted to put aside some time to go to Guy’s place and sit down and talk about where we want to go. The weather in New York has been nice and cool, so the drive up North to where he lives was a nice pleasant fall day kind of drive. One cool thing about where Guy lives is that the Guthrie Center is only about 30 minutes away from his place, and we had planned to go to their open mic night to spread our message. Guy called me and told me he would be late, so he just told us to make ourselves at home. We did just that as we rolled in, late in the afternoon. His place has great view of the surrounding mountains and valley.
After a while Guy arrived, and when he came in and said his hellos he looked over at Al pecking away at a blog entry and thought “Oh, that’s just Al”. It took him a moment or so to realize they had never actually met face to face. Then after all this time Guy and Al finally met, and they were like old friends from different lifetimes. There was not much time to get to the Guthrie Center, and Guy said we should have something to eat. “How about chili?”, Guy says, and we all nod in hungry approval. So Guy does some cooking while I get some files out and share them with Guy in the kitchen. He has a nice sundeck facing a great view so we set the table outside. Files, chili, and blogging as the clock was ticking away, we were running low on time. As Guy finished preparing some real five alarm chili he yelled out,” Come and get it” and he passed out the large platefuls of rice and chili. We ate a fast dinner and then stated to pack up so we all could head to the Guthrie Center, http://www.guthriecenter.org/
Guy knew where to go, so we followed him through the mountains and back roads of the Berkshires to Stockbridge, Mass. Fall will be coming soon and we could see it in the trees and it made us wonder how much snow they get around here.
Still Pickin’
Bill Hudson
Al Coffey
Greg Greenstein
http://www.dragonfly.com/ is sending entertainers to the devastated areas in Louisiana and Mississippi
1 comments:
These guys can eat a lot of chili. and the nice part is that they play some great music afterward.
13 trips of the Feel Good Tour to get music and instruments to the gulf and to the kids there who need a little more music.
Thanks Bill and Al. How bout a beer to wash down that chili?
Guy
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