Squash Blossom Boys

We stopped at the Ridgway Farmer’s Market Sunday morning. There were about 8 or so vendors, selling jewelry (??), cheese, elk meat, grass fed chickens, plants, and a quite good blue grass quintet, the Squash Blossom Boys from Albuquerque, who had popped over from the Bluegrass Festival at Telluride. Younger than you’d expect, but they were all characters, and quite good. They were using one mike stand and had down pat the delicate dance of shifting to and fro to allow people to move closer to the microphone when it was time. They looked like they could do this in their sleep, and indeed a few of them may have been asleep. One of the two main singers had the absolute perfect bluegrass voice.

NOTE: Just listened to the stuff on their myspace.com page (linked from above) on Wednesday. What we heard them do live was very different and way better. Oh well. Sorry.