I recently met Chuck Ogsbury, founder of Ome Banjos. What a great guy! It is obvious that there is a lot of care and reverence that goes into building his banjos. His instruments are inspired by nature and his appreciation for it, using quality materials to create quality instruments. He shared with me some stories of the mountain people and the mountain music of this area in the 1960s! On the drive home from our gig at Peaceful Henry’s in Guffey, CO, we came darn close to hitting a buffalo. A buffalo! It is a sad situation when buffaloes are out running amuck late on a snowy cinco de Mayo night! Anyway, it was icy, we had to slam on the brakes, we had the trailer on the back of the truck with all our equipment, and things got dicey for a second. But we and the buffalo are fine. Then I got to thinking… the last time the roads were particularly icy and dangerous to drive was on April 5th, coming home from a gig in Steamboat Springs. And the time before that was on March 5th driving back from the Upper Penninsula in Michigan after recording James Moors’ new CD. I’ll have to look back and see what the moon was doing on the 5th of those months!

Tags: Kort McCumber, mountain music, Ome Banjos

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