Two weeks ago Connecticut folk-rock-grass-blues duo The Meadows Brothers came up to visit us in our little town in Vermont. The boys were kind enough to perform at the town’s little (but big hearted) coffeehouse series. A series that raises funds for a local beneficiary at each show. Small town rural communities doing what they can for the things we need and care most about in town like the local library, fire department and in the case of this show the local ski hill, the Northeast Slopes.
Early in the day Ian, Dustin and myself headed up the hill to visit with my friend and local woodworker/luthier Dave Richard. At any given time Dave may be working on dressing frets on a teens Gibson mando, repairing a crack in a pre-war Martin tenor, and a neck reset on a Santa Cruz Tony Rice model acoustic. He has also built a handful of his own acoustics from scratch and he had two of those builds in the shop. One that is a couple of years old and another that just had its first set of strings popped on it a week or two before. We all talked shop for a bit, picked around with some of the guitars and then Ian and Dustin grabbed the two guitars and performed their beautiful version of Gordon Lightfoot’s ‘Steel Rail Blues’.