We played at the Monkey Basket in Old Towne Helena last night. We started a 7 p.m. and the sun had not yet set in the west. In fact it had been baking the cement slab on which we would be playing, ALL DAY LONG.They set up a tent in case the rain came in early and this trapped the heat drifting up from the slab. I felt like I was in a really efficient convection oven.
But the Overalls are troopers so we played on. There weren't that many people at first, but as the sun set behind the western horizon and it got closer to the time for fireworks, the streets were packed.
We finished up our show just before the fireworks show which began at 9 p.m. We played one of my favorite folk songs of all time - This Land is Your Land by Woody Guthry. I love that song and apparently the crowd did too because even over the sound system, you could hear hundreds of people singing:
THIS LAND IS YOUR LAND
THIS LAND IS MY LAND
FROM CALIFORNIA
TO THE NEW YORK ISLAND
It was a fun show even thought it was hotter than a firecracker.
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