Cecil “P-Nut” Daniels

Dec 15, 2009 by

Intro In early 1955, while Elvis was still running around playing third bill at state fairs and rodeos, a premature baby was born into a loving family in Temple, Texas. He was so tiny they called him P’Nut. Despite an early bout with polio and spending his formative years in the all-too-common iron leg braces of that era, it wasn’t long before Cecil “P’Nut” Daniels was beating a racket in the living room on a homemade drum kit. His first kit was made out of pots and pans from his mother’s kitchen, with a few dimes thrown in to give it all a little sizzle. As he grew he decided that he would study the trumpet in school and by the time he was 15 (the year that Hendrix passed away) he was playing...

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Colorado Statewide Music Calendar...

Dec 14, 2009 by

Below is a link to Mousike’s statewide music calendar with concert listings for towns in the counties of Summit, Eagle, Routt, Garfield, Pitkin, Boulder, Denver and more. This was the most updated information as of December 1 and contains schedules and contact information for most of Colorado’s music venues. Statewide Music...

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Leftover Salmon

Dec 14, 2009 by

Leftover Salmon

Leftover Salmon – 20 Years of Swimming Upstream By Michael Gerity  Are you ready for the country? It was the end of the month, the end of the year and a conclusion to a decade that was, for lack of another word- interesting. It was December 1989 and for one group of Colorado musicians it was only the beginning of what would become a long, arduous journey back upstream. In October, there was a severe earthquake in San Francisco just before the start of Game 3 of the World Series. And the Grateful Dead released Built to Last on Halloween, the album that proved to be their last studio effort. By November, Mikhail Gorbachev’s Perestroika had brought such sweeping changes to the Communist world that it culminated with a worldwide viewing of a falling...

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