MySpace
myspace music my music  featured playlists  top artists  music videos  karaoke  shows  forums 


MySpace.com | rss | sign in
Sisters of the Silver Sage



Last Updated: 11/18/2009

Send Message
Instant Message
Email to a Friend
Subscribe

Status: Married
City: Maryville
State: Tennessee
Country: US
Signup Date: 2/7/2007

Blog Archive
[Older      Newer]
 /  / 
Saturday, July 18, 2009 

Current mood:  artistic
Category: Music
Hello Folks....
 
I just wanted to let you all know that next month...(August)...we will pass the 10-Year Mile Marker in our "Musical Journey"...and we want to celebrate that event by getting together with all our friends, fans and family at Deadbeat Pete's Southwestern Restaurant in Townsend Tennessee.  This "Reunion" will be out on the Patio at Deadbeat Pete's (Our first regular paying gig for nearly 5 years!!)...on Saturday, August 1st...from 7pm until 10pm...Under the velvet sky...Over the river...Among our Friends...What could be better?!!!
 
We'll be singing all your old favorites, some of OUR favorites & some songs you've never heard us do before...3 hours of fun!  And it's FREE!  You'll also enjoy the best Southwestern Food east of the Mississippi....Deadbeat Pete's is FAMOUS all over the world for it's great food!  (It's NOT free...but it's WORTH IT!) So gather up all your friends, neighbors and family...and head on up to Deadbeat Pete's in Townsend on Saturday, August 1st....and join us for music and dinner....and fantastic conversation and fellowship!  We'll love to see you there!!
 
Happy Trails....
 
Donna, Rhonda & Janet
"Sisters of the Silver Sage"
AWA's 2004 "Western Group/Duo of the Year" 
"He's a Cowboy" ... AWA's 2003 "Western Song of the Year"
Please visit our website at:  http://www.sistersofthesilversage.com
And our MySpace page at: http://www.myspace.com/sistersofthesilversage
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil...but because of those who look on...and do nothing!"
Albert Einstein
7:08 PM 
1 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate
Monday, June 29, 2009 

Current mood:  silly
Category: Life
Folks...this is Great!  And it's just the way I feel!  Sure wish I'd written it...but a friend sent it to me this morning...and I just HAD to share it!!  I've done MySpace...and just now made it to FaceBook (which I don't understant at all)...and I don't DARE go on Twitter!!!

Enjoy!

My Twitter won't Tweet

Things are spiraling out of control. I think I have become lost in a
world of electronic madness.

One of my sons informed me this week that my cell phone has become
obsolete and I must head down to the Cell Phone store and get a phone that
is contemporary with the time.

I pointed out that the fancy Razor/Slim line phone with camera built in
that he made me trade my perfectly good flip-top Motorola cell phone for
two
years ago still works perfectly fine.  Well, except for the camera thing.
Never could figure that out.. Even the few times I actually did take
pictures I couldn't figure what to do with them and gave up.

That is except when I would push the wrong button and take a video of the
ceiling or my feet.

Seems the issue is that I am unable to text with the tiny little 3
character buttons.  "Hi, son," would come out looking like, "Gh Qmo."  My
grandkids have even spoken to my wife about Poppa's crazy text messages.
Give me a break. Whatever happened to actually talking on a phone? Isn't
that what they were invented for?

They want me to get one of those phones that you can turn upside down and
sideways and has a typewriter keyboard with keys about one-eighth the
size of my pinky finger. One of my four sons is a realtor whose real
occupation is fly-fishing.  "Way to go, son."

Or in text language, "Xbz um Io, rmo."

We were floating the Yakima River in his guide quality drift boat south
of Ellensburg, Washington. We were miles from anything remotely resembling
civilization.  Rock canyon walls were on either side of us. Bear with me
I try to explain this strange thing.

His "Blackberry" rang.  It was blue and I asked him why it wasn't called
a Blueberry. He shook his head with that 'dealing with an elder despair'
look I get a lot these days. It was another realtor who called to say that
the sellers he represented had agreed to my son's client's changes and he
had the signed documents in hand.

My son told him to FAX the papers to his office and he would get them signed
and Faxed back, to close the deal that morning. A minute later the phone
rang and he hit a few buttons and looked ove r the FAX, now on the Yakima
River with us. He then called his clients and told them he was Faxing the
papers to them to sign and asked them to FAX them back to his office.  While
he was  waiting, he hooked into a fat rainbow and was just releasing this 22
inch beauty  as his phone rang again with the signed FAX from his clients.

He called the other realtor and told him he was sending the signed papers
back by FAX. The deal was closed. He smiled and just said, "You are a
little behind the times, Dad."

I thought about the sixty million dollar a year business I ran with 1800
employees, all without a Blackberry that played music, took videos,
pictures and communicated with Facebook and Twitter.

I signed up under duress for Twitter and Facebook, so my seven kids,
their spouse, 13 grandkids and 2 great grand kids could communicate with me
in the modern way. I figured I could handle something as simple as Twitter
with only 140 characters of space.

That was before one of my grandkids hooked me up for Tweeter, Tweetree,
Twhirl, Twitterfon, Tweetie and Twittererific Tweetdeck, Twitpix and
something that sends every message to my cell phone and every other
program within the texting world.

My phone was beeping every three minutes with the details of everything
except the bowel movements of the entire next generation.  I am not ready to
live like this. I keep my cell phone in the garage in my golf bag.

The kids bought me a GPS for my last birthday because they say I get  lost
every now and then going over to the grocery store or library. I keep  that
in a box under my tool bench with the Blue tooth [it's red] phone I am
supposed to use  when I drive.  I wore it once and was standing in line at
Barnes and Nobles talking to my wife as everyone in the nearest 50 yards
was glaring at me.  Seems I have to take my hearing aid out to use it and
got a little loud.

I mean the GPS looked pretty smart on my dash board, but the lady inside
was the most annoying, rudest person I had run into in a long time. Every 10
minutes, she would sarcastically say, "Re-calc-ul-ating" You would think
that she could be nicer. It was like she could barely tolerate me. She would
let go with a deep sigh and then tell me to make a U-turn at the next light.
Then when I would make a right turn instead, it was not good.

When I get really lost now, I call my wife and tell her the name of the
cross streets and while she is starting to develop the same tone as
Gypsy, the GSP lady, at least she loves me.

To be perfectly frank, I am still trying to learn how to use the cordless
phones in our house. We have had them for 4 years, but I still haven't
figured out how I can lose three phones all at once and have run around
digging under chair cushions and checking bathrooms and the dirty laundry
baskets when the phone rings.

The world is just getting too complex for me. They even mess me up every
time I go to the grocery store. You would think they could settle on
something themselves but this sudden "Paper or Plastic?" every time I
Check out just knocks me for a loop.
I bought some of those cloth re-usable bags to avoid looking confused but
never remember to take them in with me.

Now I toss it back to them. When they ask me,"Paper or Plastic?"  I just
say, "Doesn't matter to me. I am bi-sacksual."  Then it's their turn to
stare at me with a blank look.

Have a nice weekend
Old Ned

4:48 PM 
0 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate
Friday, June 05, 2009 

Current mood:  adventurous
Folks...

Here is the article in The Daily Times written by Steve Wildsmith....about the TAMIS fund-raiser at the Palace Theatre Saturday June 6th!

As of Thursday evening...there were only 13 seats left!!!  So it will definitely be a SELL-OUT!  They may have some standing room only tickets...so call The Palace  TOMORROW for YOUR ticket!!

Hope to see you there....and enjoy the article!!!

Donna   -for-
"The Sisters....."






..
TN Archive of Moving Image and Sound
Cas Walker poses with a couple of mules in his heyday.

Summary

IF YOU GO

'An Evening with Cas Walker and Friends'

WHAT: A benefit performance for the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound

PERFORMERS: The Randolph Family, Phil Campbell, Pappy "Gube" Beaver, David West and the Cider Mountain Boys, Luke Brandon, Sisters of the Silver Sage

WHEN: 7 p.m. Saturday

WHERE: The Palace Theater, 113 W. Broadway Ave., downtown Maryville

HOW MUCH: $10

CALL: 215-8856

Sisters of the Silver Sage help pay tribute to Cas Walker at Palace benefit

By Steve Wildsmith
of The Daily Times Staff
Originally published: June 04. 2009 12:40PM
Last modified: June 04. 2009 12:40PM

As a young woman, Donna Guffey lorded over the registers as head cashier of Cas Walker's Morganton Road store.

She distinctly remembers the diminutive East Tennessee icon as he made his regular rounds, always taking time for a kind word with her and her mother, Sarah Elizabeth Parker Whiting.

"He always called mama 'Mrs. White,' because our dad's stage name was Smoky White," Guffey recalled in a recent conversation with The Daily Times. "He was coming in and out all of the time -- he was well-known for popping in and out at the strangest times. If something popped in his head, he said it. He was never insulting, and he had a very dry sense of humor, but he generally meant what he said."

Guffey is one of many East Tennesseans with fond (and not-so-fond) memories of Cas Walker, the East Tennessee grocer, politician and long-time country music promoter who enjoyed local longevity on radio and television. Although Walker died almost 10 years ago, his legacy still lives on, and Saturday night, Guffey's Western swing group -- Sisters of the Silver Sage, in which she's joined by siblings Janet Giles and Rhonda Whiting -- will take part in a Cas Walker tribute show at The Palace Theater in downtown Maryville.

"An Evening with Cas Walker and Friends," a benefit for the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound, will feature performances by acts influenced or supported by Walker, as well as clips from the "Cas Walker Farm and Home" TV program and previously lost TV advertisements from the 1950s that featured well-known local entertainers. The Sisters trace their link to Walker back through their father, a long-time fiddle player for Grand Ole Opry star and "Hee Haw" star Archie Campbell.

"Cas would call up daddy if he had a spot available on his show and daddy wasn't working with Archie," Guffey said. "He was gone with Archie a lot, but he played for Cas, too."

"I remember watching his early morning TV show when it came on at 6 a.m.," Whiting added. "As a little girl, it was always a chance to see daddy on TV. I remember Cas had a very colorful personality."

Although Smoky White died in 1993, his daughters (he had six of them) turned their love of singing into a career over time. Sisters of the Silver Sage began performing in public in 1999, first up at Deadbeat Pete's in Townsend. Despite their father's familiarity with the stage, it was a rocky start for the Sisters, Guffey remembered.

"I was literally scared to death," she said with a laugh. "I would write down word-for-word -- even the 'ands' and the 'thes' -- what I was going to say between songs. And then one night, I forgot my notes. I was totally terrified and silent for a minute or two, but then I started talking, and everybody started grinning, and I haven't shut up since."

Performing runs in the Whiting sisters' blood, it seems -- little else accounts for the 10-year run of successful shows, both locally and nationally. The group is routinely nominated for Academy of Western Artists awards, has won several over the years and is a favorite of Blount County residents. They pick and poke at one another on stage, laugh and cut up with the audience and -- when they make music -- sound like angels that ride the open plains on chariots made of tumbleweeds, mesquite wood and trail dust.

They draw on the experiences of their father and his colleagues, men who helped put East Tennessee on the map as the birthplace of country music during the heyday of such programs as Walker's show and the WNOX radio show "Mid-Day Merry Go Round."

"There's a great deal of information, an incredible well of tales and stories, that you can pull from," Guffey said. "It's a mix of smiles and enjoyment, and if you can duplicate that in your own performance, people connect with you."

The band has also been the bedrock upon which the sisters have leaned -- tragedy has visited the ladies frequently in recent years, and in an 18-month period, they lost five family members, including their youngest sister.

"It's been such a big, huge part of me and such a comfort -- like falling back on a big, huge, soft pillow," Guffey said.

Currently, the ladies are working on a new album -- constant delays have dragged out work on it, but there's already a title -- "There'll Be Harmony in Heaven" -- and a distinctive, bluegrass-gospel feel that will mark it as different from their previous records. With three more songs needed to complete it, Guffey vowed to have it in the hands of fans by the end of summer.

In the meantime, they'll take part in Saturday's quasi-reunion -- guitarist Luke Brandon was a frequent collaborator with their dad, and the girls are honored to be a part of night of East Tennessee magic -- especially since it's another opportunity to perform together again.

"There's a satisfaction in being able to really work artistically with your family -- to build something and create something," Whiting said. "I wrote one song called 'Stampede,' which talks about seeing higher ground to save your life, but it's also about seeking higher ground spiritually -- and that's what I get from working with my family."
 
 
All Materials Copyright 2009 Horvitz Newspapers
5:21 AM 
0 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate
Friday, May 08, 2009 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Music

 Folks....here are the details of our appearance at the Palace Theatre on June 6th for the Tennessee Archives of Moving Images and Sound....please get your tickets early...because of limited seating (less than 200 seats!!)  You are going to LOVE this production!!

Donna -for-
"The Sisters......"                                               

 

 The Historic Palace Theatre

113 West Broadway, Maryville, TN
Saturday, June 6, 2009
7 pm -10 pm      

 

Admission: $10.00 minimum donation per person

 

               An Evening with Cas Walker and Friends

 

A Special Benefit Performance for the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound

 

What do local East Tennessee music legends the Randolph Family, Phil Campbell (son of Nashville Great, Archie "Grandpappy" Campbell), Pappy “Gube” Beaver, David West and the Cider Mountain Boys, Luke Brandon, and the Sisters of the Silver Sage have in common? All of them were directly influenced or supported in some way or another by Knoxville grocery store kingpin and country music promoter Cas Walker!

 

Join the Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound for a special fundraising benefit show dedicated to the legacy of one of East Tennessee’s own, the legendary Cas Walker!

 

Cas Walker wore many hats; grocer, politician, and long-time radio and television variety show host. Each job was done in Walker’s unique tell-it-like-it-is style. Love him or hate him, Walker was a major force in Knoxville business and politics, and gave hundreds of area musicians a break on his long-running Cas Walker Farm and Home television program. Recently discovered film clips and rare video from Walker’s long-unavailable local television program give testimony as to why Cas Walker’s legacy endures almost a decade after his death. Featured are vintage commercials, musical guest spots (look for a young Dolly Parton!) and bloopers from Walker’s surviving television programs. As an added bonus, TAMIS will be screening hilarious and previously lost Cas Walker television advertisements from the 1950s, unseen for over five decades. These vintage commercials feature the likes of Fred E Smith, Red Rector, and other well-known local entertainers.

 

Rounding out the program will be live country, bluegrass, and gospel musical performances from local musicians who played for Cas on his radio and television programs from the 1940s until the 1980s. Scheduled to perform are Cas Walker impersonator John Hitch (of local “Mayberry” fame), and wife Ruby, Luke Brandon, comedian Phil Campbell, western swing artists Sisters of the Silver Sage, Chet Atkins-style guitar picker Larry Oldham, Rita Cianciola, 90 year old Pappy “Gube” Beaver” (sponsored by Walker on WROL Radio in the 1940s), and legendary bluegrass band David West and the Cider Mountain Boys.

 

A special attraction will be the reunion of the surviving Randolph Family Band, a popular local radio act (WNOX, WROL) during the 1940s, along with a screening of a long-lost film made of the band in 1946 by Knoxville filmmaker Sam Orleans.

 

Proceeds from this benefit show will assist the archive to continue its preservation work and help finance CD and DVD releases of material held within the archive’s vaults. The Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound is a non-profit archive dedicated to collecting, preserving, and providing access to the moving image and recorded sound heritage of East Tennessee.

 

Contact:  Tennessee Archive of Moving Image and Sound

865-215-8856 

www.tamisarchive.org

Email: tamis33@gmail.com

 

Tickets can be reserved by emailing TAMIS with your name and the number of seats you want to reserve.

4:15 PM 
0 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate
Tuesday, May 05, 2009 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Music

Hey Folks...

We're playin' around with the idea of doing a Music Video for You-Tube and our website...using our song "He's a Cowboy"!  And we need some Cowboy video footage! Riding your horse...sitting around a campfire....grooming your horse....puching cows....doing what cowboys do!  Even some good still shots might work....for variation!

This is our first experiment with this type of thing....and there's no money in it....but if we use any portion of your material...we'll give you credit!  That's all we can do!  But of course, we'd need your permission to use it....so  that would release us from any future liability!  (In other words....we don't want you to sue us for a million dollars down the road!!  Like we'd ever HAVE a million dollars!!  We're always BROKE anyway!!!) (sigh)

And not just cowboys either!  We've got a song called "I'd Like to Be a Cowgirl"...so you cowgirls get us some good quality  video footage too....and the next one could feature you! 

What do you think?  Think it's do-able???  Let's try it and see!!  

E-mail me and let me know your thoughts.....I'd love to hear from you!

Happy Trails....

Donna  -for-
"The Sisters of the Silver Sage"

10:21 PM 
2 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate
Thursday, April 30, 2009 

Current mood:  adventurous
Category: Music

Hello Folks...

 

Just thought I'd get the word out early about the ticket sales to our performance in September at the Lyric Theatre in Loudon because when the Theatre Association Newsletter goes out next month....the tickets will sell out fast!  There are only 132 seats available, although the theatre may be able to squeeze in a few more if needed!  So you'll need to mark your calendar for Saturday September 26....and purchase your tickets NOW to make sure you'll have a seat! 

 

If you want to use your credit card, you can purchase the ticket via PayPal on our website www.sistersofthesilversage.com  or....you can send a personal check to me for $12.50 (which includes return postage fees)...and I'll get them to you right away!

 

Here are the details of the concert!

 

We will open for "Marshal" Andy and his Riders of the Silver Screen Band....at:

 

    The Lyric Theatre

    320 Grove St.

    Loudon, TN  37774

    telephone:  865-458-9020

 

    Concert date:    Saturday, September 26, 2009

    Concert time:    7 pm until 9 pm

 

    "Meet & Greet":    We will have a "Meet & Greet" time on the Brick Patio adjacent to the Theatre for those of you who wish to come a little early to talk with us and Marshal Andy!  THAT will be a really fun time for us!

 

You can follow the link below to access The Lyric Theatre and all the information about it!!

 

http://webpages.charter.net/jcb/Lyric.htm

 

Remember....those tickets are now on sale...and they won't last long....so call me (Donna...at 865-982-1392) or...e-mail me ( sistersofthesilversage@charter.net )....to get your reserved seat at The Lyric Theatre on September 26th!

 

Happy Trails....

 

Donna  -for-
"Sisters of the Silver Sage"
AWA's 2004 "Western Group/Duo of the Year" 
"He's a Cowboy" ... AWA's 2003 "Western Song of the Year"
Please visit our website at:  http://www.sistersofthesilversage.com
And our MySpace page at: http://www.myspace.com/sistersofthesilversage
"The world is a dangerous place, not because of those who do evil...but because of those who look on...and do nothing!"
Albert Einstein

6:20 PM 
2 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate
Monday, December 29, 2008 

Current mood:  cheerful
Category: Music

Hey Folks..

.

Here's a description of the new songs I just added to our Player!  They're from our "Original Sisters of the Silver Sage" album.

 

"City of Angels" ..... I wrote this one...In fact, I didn't even like it ...so I tossed it in a file cabinet and promptly forgot all about it. (It has since turned out to be one of our fan's all-time favorites!!)  But when our producers needed some extra material to fill out the album, I remembered it and had Rhonda's husband (at that time) Buddy fax it down to Nashville to the recording studio!....We had never done the song at all and had to "work it up" right there in the studio!  Joe Spivey took the ball and ran with it .... this is how it turned out!  Whew!  THAT was scairy!

 

"I'll Meet You in Cheyenne" .....I wrote this one too!  I've been told I have a "thing" for Wyoming (and Texas)...'cause I write a lot of songs about them...but this was my first "Wyoming" song.  My husband's brother loves this one...and he's sentimental when he's "in his cups"...so sometimes he'll call and "shay"...."Hey Donna-girl...Jusht lissin t' thish shong!  It'sh the mosht beautiful shong ever written!  Have you ever heard thish one?"  And I'll say..."Yes Fred...I've heard it!" (Bless his heart!)

 

"A Cowboy's Prayer" .....Rhonda wrote this song....and everyone seems to like it lots!  Several years ago she lived near Calgary, British Columbia .... and the memory of those beautiful Canadian Rockies inspired her to write "A Cowboy's Prayer"!

 

"Ride Just Ride" .....This is another one of mine!  I guess I was in a "mellow" mood when this one came to me....I call it one of those "Rockin' Chair" songs 'cause you just sort of "rock along" with horse's cantering motion...and ride just ride!

 

"How Western Swing was Born" .....I wrote...and narrated ...this little piece!  And it's based on a true story...We were doing an outside performance one July at the Pick 'N Porch up in Townsend...and Janet had worn a long skirt...and during one of the songs, Rhonda and I noticed that she was making some strange movements (Now remember, Janet plays the electric bass) ...and hitting some off-pitch notes...She was figittin' around something awful....and I kept giving her dirty looks...But she ignored them....!  Finally...the bass guitar made a horrible sound....Janet squealed and threw it at Rhonda (who caught it one-handed)....and started slapping her skirt.....and dancing around the stage .... hollering and slapping!  Rhonda was goggle-eyed....and I just stood there with my mouth hangin' open ...watching the antics!  The audience was rolling in the floor....killing themselves laughing!  I guess they thought it was all part of the show!  But it turns out that a horse fly had got up Janet's skirt....and was biting the devil out of her all through the song....and finally she couldn't take any more!  I'm surprised she didn't shed that skirt....and actually she said later that it was next if the slapping didn't take care of it!  Hope you enjoy the poem!  Think of Janet!

 

"Blue Blue Sky" .....Rhonda wrote this song....one of her very first ones!  I helped a little bit on the bridge....thought a bunch of those "off chords" would sound nice...No wonder we can't play the thing!!  A Great Song!

 

Well....that's it....hope you enjoyed the little "Song History"....and hope you'll enjoy the actual songs as well....Let me know what you think after you've given them a listen!

 

Happy Trails....

 

Donna  -for-

"The Sisters....."

 

 

9:27 PM 
0 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate
Saturday, December 13, 2008 

Current mood:finally in the Christmas Spirit!
Category: Music

Well Folks....

 

It's finally ready....and we're taking orders now!  "A Christmas Card" from Sisters of the Silver Sage .... is only $10.00 ...!   A perfect stocking stuffer for the music-lover on your Christmas List! 

 

Here's the Line-up!

 

1.   Sleigh Ride

2.   My Christmas Wish (Rhonda wrote this one)

3.   What Child is This/Away in a Manger

4.   In Sweet Bethlehem (Donna wrote this one)

5.   If Santa Was a Cowboy (Donna wrote this one)

6.   Yodelin' Belle's Song (Donna, Rhonda & Janet wrote this one)

7.   Jingle Bell Spurs (Rhonda & Janet wrote this one)

8.   Merry Bunkhouse Christmas (Donna wrote this one)

9.   We Three Kings/O Come Emanuel

10.  The Coventry Carol

11.  Silver Bells

12.  Santa Baby

13.  Long Black Highway (Rhonda wrote this one)

14.  I'll Be Home For Christmas 

 

There it is...!   Let me know via e-mail if you want to order....or go through Pay Pal on our official website... www.sistersofthesilversage.com

 

Merry Christmas...and

Happy Trails....

Donna  -for-

"The Sisters....."

 

 

6:27 AM 
1 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate
Sunday, December 07, 2008 

Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Music

Well Folks....

 

The new Christmas Album will be finished in a few days...and I've added some of those songs to our Profile Player....the following is a little bit about them...and we sure hope you enjoy....

 

"What Child is This/Away in a Manger"....this is our arrangement combing two old traditional hymns ....two of our favorites ...done a'cappella..."The Sisters...." Style"...

 

"In Sweet Bethlehem"....  I (Donna) wrote this one a few years back...with just my single guitar accompaniment...and a little "effects" for Effect!  Hope you enjoy!

 

"If Santa Was a Cowboy"... This is the very first song I ever wrote....the very first Christmas after we began our musical journey in Auguest of 1999...I'd never written anything before...much less a song...but we needed some Cowboy Christmas songs for our first Holiday Performance...After hours of  "tries" a waste basket full of "rejections" and my pitiful pleas for "ideas"...my husband, Johnny finally threw up his hands and said...."For God's sake, Donna...What if Santa Was a Cowboy"!  And that was all it took!  I wrote 3 that night!  What can I say!!??

 

"Jingle Bell Spurs" ... Janet and Rhonda and I were sitting around my table one evening during the Holidays....just fooling around ...and those two gals came up with this little cowboy lulaby in about 30 minutes....I just played the chords they sang and so had no real part in it's composition...They did it all!

 

"My Christmas Wish" .... Rhonda wrote this one....It has a little "calypso" type beat and makes you want to dance and sway!!  Shades of Carman Miranda!!

 

"Long Black Highway" .... Rhonda wrote this one on her way driving back home from Texas...She and her family had been out there on an extended visit with friends....and she was very homesick....Lonesome for Tennessee and Home...Great song!

 

Hope you enjoy these songs....and if you do...you might want to visit our website   www.sistersofthesilversage.com  to check the other songs on the album....and maybe even pick some up for your favorite stockings!

 

Happy Trails....and Happy Holidays...

Donna   -for-

"The Sisters....."

8:11 AM 
0 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate
Tuesday, November 25, 2008 

Current mood:  contemplative
Category: Writing and Poetry

"My Winter's Lament"

 

"My Winter's Lament!"

 

 

I Guess I'm finally gettin' old.....

'cause my bones are achin'  with the cold!!!

My muscles quiver.....shiver.....and shake......

and when the temperature drops...I begin to quake!!!

 

At night I wear THREE sets of clothes!!!  

And still.... I swear.....I've  nearly froze

Though the heat's on high.......and the fire's a'poppin'......

I know I can feel that temp'rature droppin' !!

 

Never again will I ever gripe....

about the heat of an August night......

When the sweat is tricklin' down my face.......

and my hair spray turns to a sticky paste!!!

 

And I'm wondering just what's next to come "off".......

When the Iced tea's hot and the jello's soft!

When the mercury climbs to a Hundred or more.....

then I'm right there fumin'  in the middle of the floor

 

with the A/C  blowin' on "Hurricane".........

and me swearin' I wished it was Winter again!

Seems like there's never a "Medium Ground"

When the weather is "up" ….It ought to be "down".

 

So I'm in a quandry......In a Mess all the time.......

when it comes to the Seasons.....I can't make up my mind......

Whether I like it Hot........or I like it Cold.......

But there's One Thing For Certain.....

 

I DON'T like it  OLD!!!

 

Donna Guffey "The Tall-Tale-Tellin' Tennessean"

January 11, 2004

 

8:58 AM 
8 Comments
(Add Comment) |
Translate