Scott Hiram Biram/Woody Fest

Scott Biram ratcheted up some street (or trucker) cred for actually getting hit by a truck in a 70mph collision and living to tell about it. He's tough I think. It takes one to grow up and out of a place like Kingsbury, TX. His songs about that place are vivid and entertaining.


Talking with him he's pretty soft spoken which comes in handy during some of his softer songs like Lost Case of Being Found.


In addition to being a good stomper and a yeller he handles traditional American songs like The Rock Island Line and Wabash Cannonball.


He'll be at Opolis..Next Monday at the Hillgrass Bluebilly show with Bob Log.


I wrote him up here....May post a full transcript soon.





http://www.okgazette.com/p/12853/a/2291/Default.aspx?ReturnUrl=LwBEAGUAZgBhAHUAbAB0AC4AYQBzAHAAeAAslashAHAAPQAxADIANwA0ADgA








It'll be a good punctuation for a sweaty weekend with the old timers at Woody Guthrie Fest in Okemah, which every one should go to because it's free. One of my coworkers complimented the nil entrance fee with a Kristofferson quote. "Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose....."

For specifics on this event jump to http://www.woodyguthrie.com/

David Amram will be there playing with his son the drummer. He was the cat playing Keyboard in some documentary they made about Kerouac spitting poetry at a New York museum for the first time. He wrote the score for Splendor in the Grass and the original Manchurian Candidate. Composed with Bernstein. Farmer. Cosmic traveler. He has recently written a symphony with Woody's songs and loves coming down here, especially for the Saturday morning Pancake Breakfast. He'll talk to you about his French horn jazz and beats all day and he wrote about those times in two books, one called Vibrations. The spirit lives.

John Fullbright is probably 20 now. He plays at the brickstreet grill basement at noon Friday. He's the real deal, a voice scratching sandpaper that's 30 years older than him. Excellent picker. He sings songs about his brother in Iraq and other heavys in the outlaw country style. He covers Earl Keen and Don McClean in a real easy way. He sounds like a natural. He's from this ghost town. I'm hoping he's kept up the skills.




My 2006 trip to Woody Fest is still my one Google worthy moment...Just riding on the tail of Woody's ramblin' legacy.





http://www.popmatters.com/music/features/060804-okemah.shtml

There will be camping. I'm told there are more peaceful spots out by the little Okemah Lake so any crew that jumps on with us may have that to look forward to....