Touring songwriter-singer-guitarist Sam[antha] Shaber's e-newsletter for
June included the following:
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>But most of May was spent driving over 9,000 miles in the Mazda, through
>mountains, pra[i]ries, farms, salt flats, tunnels, valleys, passes, and
>incredible towns such as Echo, UT, La Grande, OR, Hayes, KS, Wendover, NV,
>Nederland, CO, Cheyenne, WY, and Malcolm, IA. <Snip> And very exciting was
>pulling off in Colby, KS[,] and driving around while singing the song
>"Matthew" by John Denver which put the town on the map for me at a very
>young age. (I forgot to bring the Denver disc with me on this trip which
>was a bummer to say the least.)
>Other highlights of the trip included All-American Day - which I dubbed
>when I realized I would spend the day driving from Lawrence, KS to Boulder,
>CO[,] through some of the most "American" looking scenery I have ever
>viewed. I decided I was allowed to play only very American music that day,
>so I started with the Grateful Dead, ("American Beauty,") and then went to
>Bruce Springsteen, ("Born to Run,") (and of course what could be better
>than driving through Wyoming while listening to songs about growing up near
>the Jersey boardwalks... ) Next came Janis Joplin "Pearl," and for the
>finale I threw in Joni Mitchell "Hejira."
>(I was corrected later by a friend who said that Joni is actually Canadian,
>which A) I should have known, and B) might explain why I got completely
>lost as soon as I put the cd on.)
>(Or it could be that getting to the Boulder Turnpike 36N from 70W is
>physically impossible unless you have infrared vision and can read the
>teensy wittle sign for 36 amidst all the HUGE signs for 76, but whatever.)
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Sam Shaber, www.samshaber.com, is a John Lennon Songwriting Competition
Finalist and Songwriting Competition Finalist.
Thought some on the list might find the "Hejira" mention of interest.
Tim Spong
Dover, Del., U.S.A.
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