Texas Hobart Is A Walking Man

From my good friend Doowad

1.	Guy Clark	Walking Man
2.	Lyle Lovett	Step Inside This House
3.	Rick Danko & Levon Helm	Long Black Veil
4.	Hubert Sumlin	When I Feel Better
5.	The Del McCoury Band	Never Grow Up Boy
6.	Willie Nelson	I Couldn't Believe It Was True
7.	Happy & Artie Traum	Sam's Song
8.	Del Shannon	Kaw-Liga
9.	Woody Guthrie & Cisco Houston	Whoopie-Ti-Yi-Yo, Get Along Little Doggies
10.	The Carolina Chocolate Drops	Trouble in Your Mind
11.	Charlie Poole	Shootin' Creek
12.	Loudon Wainwright III	Took My Gal Out Walkin'
13.	Camp Creek Boys	Lonesome Road Blues
14.	Pete Harris	He Rambled
15.	Kokomo Arnold	Kid Man Blues
16.	The Delmore Brothers	Blow Your Whistle Freight Train
17.	Doc Watson	Deep River Blues
18.	The Sons of the Pioneers	Cool Water
19.	The Avett Brothers	I Would Be Sad
20.	John Hammond, Jr.	Color of the Blues
21.	Chuck E. Weiss	Down The Road A Piece
22.	Ry Cooder	Chloe
23.	Ernest Tubb with Buddy Emmons & George Jones	Half a Mind

As very few, if any, of you may remember, I joined the mixing community as a refugee of the gardenweb soil & compost forum. Many an afternoon I had spent with a mix CD and a Stag, rooting around in my compost pile. So much so, that I had posted my first cybermix, Garden 1, there and it was immediately put in an “off - topic” wing of their forum and I never found it again. So I picked up my marbles and found a new place to play, which is how I landed at Art of the Mix.
Five years later, I am still mixing and still composting. I prefer the open - pile compost method, much like I do with mixing. When we moved into our current residence, I laid down some pink foam sheets as a base to keep the roots out and then a plastic canvas on top of that. My pile is located in the cool shade of a walnut tree, which makes it mighty fine for having a Stag in the afternoon, but not so good I found out for keeping roots out of the pile. Despite my best efforts to block off the bottom, I had the bloody walnut roots coming in through the sides and around the end. And even though my other uncle (not the back to back to basics one) tells me that the poisonous aspect of walnut roots is a myth, the last thing I want is for the big ole tree to siphon off all of the nutrients from my pile.
So now I am in the middle of digging out all of the compost, the in - progress I piled to one side, to shovel back in when I’m done, and the finished compost is going in the front yard. I am hoping it is truly “finished” because last year, I filled in a bunch of places with compost in front and now have a bumper crop of cilantro & basil where I wanted grass to be. I am not that much of a wood hippie to replace fescue with cilantro….
In any case, I am nearly done with the excavating, about half the tarp is exposed so I can lay a new one over-top, blocking off the main entry points for the blessed walnut tree.
Which brings us to the point of the mix, I threw a whole slew of these artists together on shuffle in my “gimnasio roquero” playlist (rocking gym, even though it is more of a Stag & compost lineup). As I listened the other day, there was a nice run with the CCD and Charlie Poole and some of the others that made me think of my good friend, and fellow Gutbucket Brother, Texas Hobart.
So, Tex, this is for you, may the sun shine on your back and your compost pile always be free of roots!