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Crocuses and how it could keep getting better…
It’s officially crocus season, and that’s good news out here on the edge of the badlands where we’ve all been patiently waiting for them to arrive, as if the blooming of the first flower gives us...
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Music in Montana
So I have a really exciting weekend coming up and I am pathetically distracted by the anticipation of it all. My meetings turn into day dreams, my rhubarb jelly is still just rhubarb, and my writing...
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Late summer rain
It’s hot here. Like 90 some degrees. Hot and a little bit windy and a little bit dusty and a lot like late August. The ditch sunflowers are out in full bloom and everything is taking cover, looking...
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Heroes Proved
I’ve been writing music since I was a little girl. Some of it has escaped the walls that held me at the time, others have been locked up, unfinished, never ready to be played for anyone. I have ideas....
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A breath.
Ever had one of those weeks where you have not allowed yourself one moment? Where you’re so scheduled that there’s no room to sleep in just a little bit late, to linger on a phone call with a friend,...
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Cowboy Singing
We’re looking ahead out here in the arctic tundra. Every day Pops is getting stronger and more antsy and our biggest job is to keep him from taking the keys and heading out the door without us. I keep...
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Diners, Fenceposts and Cowboy Poems: Road Trip to Elko
1,037 miles, 16 hours, seven thousand fenceposts, one overnight snowstorm, two or three little hometown diner meals one night in a Comfort Inn in Idaho Falls and a couple of tourist moments later…...
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Why not here? Big music in a small town.
Husband’s checking the air on the pickup tires and I just changed my guitar strings. Tomorrow morning bright and early we’re loading up our boots and guitars (and coolers) and heading west to the Red...
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Sunday Column: Singing on stages
Whew, hello there. We’re alive and well out here in Western North Dakota after a five day trip with the whole fam and the band to White Sulphur Springs, MT for the Red Ants Pants Music Festival where...
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Music Friday: Jiggity Jig
(Photo by Tim Frenz) Summer weekends means packing up my guitar and playing some music on a stage somewhere. This Friday is no different. In a minute or two I’ll gather my set lists, run through a few...
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Swaying to the band at the bar on Friday night…
You are a hammer, you are nails spare change piled up on the nightstand I am half drunk water glasses on the coffee table top You are snap shirts over t-shirts long hair tucked under your felt hat I am...
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Jessie Veeder LIVE Webcast Concert Tonight!
Pops and I have been singing together for a long time… Like, since my forever…. Like, since these pants, and that scrunchie, were in style… Tonight I have been given a cool opportunity to webcast a...
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Horses and Home
It’s a little familiar, a little bit wild A big dream in the wandering eyes of a child It’s all of the secrets wrapped up in the land And all that we know about the pride of a man It’s letting it go...
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Jessie Veeder-“Boomtown”-Official Music Video
And now for the video! The premier of the music video for my song “Boomtown” happens today! I hope it give your a glimpse into the some of the stories hanging around Boomtown. I am so happy and excited...
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A Girl Needs a Dog: Music Video Submissions
One of my favorite parts about making and performing music is meeting the people who have found they can relate to the songs I write. I’ve been performing out and about in support of my last album...
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Girls, their dogs and Music City…
So I made it home safe and sound from Nashville (and managed to steer clear of the Nude Karaoke). I’m going to tell you all about it this week when I have a minute to gather up the clothing explosion...
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Sunday Column: Our songs.
It’s a nostalgic time of year. The Christmas tree is up and families are making plans to get together. I’m working on cleaning up the kitchen after a cookie decorating party that almost didn’t happen...
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This is my Nashville. This is our music.
This is how I spent my week in Nashville. Behind the microphones, in a quiet space, singing and thinking of home and what the words mean to me. This is Bill, keeping it real. This is real Bill,...
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Sunday Column: The Heart Won’t Lie, and other embarrassing stories about my...
Well, I made it home again, home again Jiggity Jig from Nashville last week and promptly lost my voice to a sweet little cold that settled into my chest and reared its ugly head midway through belting...
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A Girl Needs a Dog – Official Music Video
It’s finally up! The Official Music Video for “A Girl Needs a Dog” starring YOU and your dogs is ready for viewing. This truly was one of my favorite projects, getting a glimpse into the bond you...
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