Is Anyone Out There?

I don't know if anyone is reading these, but what the hell.
Beth the bass player has mended well enough that she can't justify narcotics with that lame leg excuse anymore. Last Sunday Hicks played in church with the church choir and choirmaster on piano, doing an "I'll Fly Away Medley." The choirmaster asked if we would do it, telling us it was in G. Great; we know the song, we do it in G, we're good to go! But when we got the music 2 weeks before the Big Event, we found out half way through it switched to E Flat, a key that isn't even from Earth, and then awhile later switches again, time time to A Flat, a key not used since the Sumerians ruled the known world. AND it changed tempos part way through. Mike downloaded a recording of it, though, and we practiced with that cd about 30 times until we got it right, and it was a big hit in church. Isn't it great to take on a big challenge that stretches your abilities, makes you learn something new and dificult, and then PULL IT OFF!?
Our next gig is also at church, the next Bluegrass Sunday on February 21st. Tonight is our first practice, at which we really ought to figure out which songs we're going to do, since the service is just 18 days away. We got word that some people at church realized this was the first Sunday in Lent and thought having bluegrass would be inappropriate. Out of an abundance of sensitivity, we are not going to perform "Spank My Monkey." There is a hymn in our actual hymnal under the actual Lent section that Elvis did a great, upbeat version of, so I think we could be liturgically appropriate and have fun, too! Fun worship; that's us.