I love getting to know people, and I have a new cyberfriend. Crazy Joe Tritschler, the Pride of Dayton, Ohio, and his band, the Mad River Outlaws, are burning up the rockabilly airwaves. I met Joe in Memphis, and had no idea he was crazy. He appeared onstage with Sonny Burgess and with the incredible Herb Remington, one of the giants of the steel guitar.Wearing a short-sleeve white shirt and tie, he looked like an engineering student who plays mean guitar, which he is. Then his new EP was profiiled in Blue Suede News, and I recognized him. One thing led to another and now we are e-mail buddies. I am enough of a kid to get a tremendous kick out of making this contact. So; Now: his website is www.maderiveroutlaws.com, the myspace page is www.myspace.com/madriveroutlaws, ( listen to ”Mary Ann;” that’s him singing and playing lead guitar) and you can get his albums on www.atomrecords.com,  or amazon.com.. That guitar in the photos was made especially for him. It’s the Crazy Joe Triphonic Guitar; one of a kind. So is Joe!  

I actually have more important stuff to post than this, but a thought just struck my fancy. ( No harm done; just a slight contusion.) As many of us Xangers do, I subscribe to certain sites maintained by people I find interesting. Folks who are touring and working on their album, folks writing poetry that cannot be sung to the tune of “The Old Gray Mare,” folks off on esoteric tangents or taking weird surveys…anyway, people with whom I have crossed cyber-paths. So, on a regular basis, I get subscription digests e-mailed to me.  Naturally I have to see what they have written and decide if I have anything to add. Many times I discover that others have read and added to the posts. On occasion, I get interested in the person behind that other Xanga site, and I go look at their site. It is usually a pretty interesting experience, seldom dull, often enlightening. I don’t dare subscribe to their site too, or I would have digests numbering several pages! But it’s fun to visit!