Things are Bigger In Texas!

Proof that things are bigger in TEXAS!! How would you like to stretch this fence?

Our CD Is Finished!!!! YeeeeHaaaaaaaawwwwwww

We have finished our CD, and we shipped it to Americana Mastering in Dickson, Tennessee. John Eberle owns Americana Mastering and has been mastering for over 30 years. He has mastered all of the Greats in bluegrass music. He had several projects that won IBMA Awards just this year! We are so blessed to have John put the finishing touch to what has been a year long project for us. This has been a long time coming for us. We finally believe that we are actually going to have our own CD. Thank You Lord for blessing us with this project! We have learned so much during this process. We started recording at Music Miner Portable Studio with Ernest Key. Ernie and I engineered the project, and I was the producer. We also recorded many of the tracks here at our little home studio in Seymour. Ernie worked many of the tracks, and I ended up doing all the mixing here in Seymour. Jeff Deaton helped me with one song to give me a little insight to how to set up the songs. He helped us so much with just that one song. Wow...it's amazing what we have learned during this year. I'm really glad it is out of our hands and now we just waiting for them to to do what they do. We are now working with the graphics for the CD panels and getting all that ready to be sent in for those guys. We should have the master sometime between Christmas and New Year's, then it is off to the duplicator's and that should take a couple weeks to finish. I'm now working to get our original songs(6) copyrighted and registered with ASCAP as a songwriter and a Publisher. There seems to always be something that needs to be done. We are looking forward to the next season of music and a new year. This has been a year that will never be forgotten. We have lost so many family members this year that I can't count them all with both hands. I would need to pull the shoes to continue to count them all. Our family has been dealing with our three year old granddaughter being sexually abused by her step dad and watching my son struggle with all the emotional, physical and FINANCIAL stress of trying to get her out of that situation to get custody of the little girl. The wheels of justice sure turn slow sometimes and the cost is overwhelming!!!! Keep them in your prayers. I've spent the last year working away from home. I would work Monday -Thursday or sometimes Friday in the panhandle area working and I finally got to come home in November. I now haven't had worked in two weeks. That's just the highlights to this year, not to mention what all is going on in our country, so needless to say...We really can't wait to see this year to come to a close and we pray that 2010 will not be as eventful as 2009. Even through all this, we are so blessed. God has given us so much and He has loved us so much. He is always preparing us for what we need to be ready for. He is always molding us with all the things we live through. Danny is getting along really good. He actually stood through a whole one hour show last week. He only sat down through 2 songs! It is awesome to see him getting stronger everyday. God is Great! I would ask if you would keep us in your prayers this year as we get ready for the new year of music and ministry. I will let you know as soon as we have CDs in our hands. Thank you all for your support! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! Hope to see you down the road.

Brothers in Christ,
Eddie

Danny's Doing Great!

Debbie and I went to see Danny Last Saturday evening and he was doing great! It doesn't even look like him the way he walks now. He walks like the rest of us. WOW. We went back Sunday to do some much needed jamming. We will be at his church next Saturday the 31st to do some jamming for their Pioneer Days! That will be fun. Starts at 5:00 PM. Our CD is getting close. We have a great place to have it mastered in Nashville, so as soon as we finished the final mixes, we can send it to John Eberle with Americana CD Mastering. He's a great guy. We are trying to be finished by Christmas. Keep us in your prayers and we hope to see you down the road of life.

He's Walking Again!

Well today has started out to be a good one. I stayed with Danny last night and he had a good night. He has a machine that keep his knees moving and he keep that thing going all night. About every 3 hours he would switch. He is having some soreness( He calls it) but is doing really well. He has a determination to getting his exercises done and done above and beyond what they expect. The doctors say he is ahead of the curve with his recovery. His cateriter came out this morning. He is able to bend his knees to a 97 degrees with his left and 92 with his right and can straighten them out to 9 degrees. Looks like he will be going home Saturday afternoon and will have home health come in to help him with his therapy. He made two trips down the hall and around the nurses station yesterday without any tears! He really wants to stick around here until tonight so he can have their SURF and TURF on the menu. That want he is having this Friday, he had it last time with his hip and has talked about all day yesterday. They brought his breakfast this morning with his chooses for the day...Looks like he has it tough up here!LOL Well keep praying for a quick recovery...we have lots of music to make!!!! Thanks again!

Danny's Surgery Went Great!!!

Danny's surgery went well! He had both knees replaced. He went in ay around 5:30 am and was back in his room at 1:00 pm. Doctors said he did great. He's having alittle pain, but he said he is managing pretty well. I was there yesterday(Tuesday) when they brought him to his room. He is in good spirits and is ready to get going. Yesterday was only pain management, and resting. Today they got him out of bed and he has his shorts on and sat up in a chair. Tomorrow, they are suppose to have him up and WALKING!! Man...that's crazy. He is in the Plaza Medical Center in Forth Worth. Room 701. He may be there for 3 to 5 days, then somewhere around a week at a rehab somewhere in the Iowa Park or Wichita Falls area. They don't have alot of info about this yet. Please keep him in your prayers for a speedy recovery! The prayers so far have been awesome, but we can't let up now, he has alot of healing and rehab that is bound to be painful. He is a super strong man, so I know he will be up and going soon. Thank you for all your prayers. You can keep up with us on our website and blog. God Bless and we hope to see you down the road,

The 1st Annual Bluegrass Festival.

Here we are at Saturday night's show. If you wasn't able to make it, you missed a really nice festival. Vega has a really nice city park and there was a huge crowd that even stayed for our late show!! The crowd was great. We will be at the Chrystal Opry House in Tom Bean this Friday the 24th. Come see us!

God Paints Us A Pretty Picture!

For those of you that can't afford those "one of a kind" paintings.....May I suggest you get a camera, keep it with you at all times, and you might find the one those "one of a kinds" that nobody can paint like our great Creator. Our All Mighty God can paint things that no one can. As you can see, here are just two supreme examples of the kind of God we serve! It's by His grace that we are rightous in his eyes. God is Great!!!