Today, January 27th, 2004, is the first day of use for the rosebudgnc web site/blog. The Rosebud Good Neighbor Club is a musical co-op, for lack of a better term. The RGNC is a community of friends who play music together, and who would also hang out together even if they weren't playing music. The music of the RGNC is an organic and eclectic style combining both the common and unique elements brought by each person in the group. The result could perhaps be referred to as the "Four State Sound", meaning music which has its roots in the states of Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, and Arkansas. The RGNC has a firm commitment to the belief that they are to play their music as well as possible, to record it on state of the art equipment when desirable, to produce the highest quality art and "product", and then to...GIVE IT AWAY...FOR FREE. In other words, RGNC plays, records and produces the best music around, and then they give it free of charge to whoever has a sincere interest in their music. It is safe to say, thankfully, that RGNC will never be hip, nor stars, nor commercially relevant. Nashville will not be calling, and Austin will not ask for demos. There will be no "industry buzz" about RGNC. Perhaps it will be best to make the statement that RGNC plays the best music you will probably never hear.

Think about what it might be like to live next door to someone for many years. You know them slightly, and say hello from time to time, maybe even talk a little bit about the weather or sports for a few minutes. In short, you don't spend much time thinking about them because, hey, you've got your own thing going on, right? You go to work, you pay your bills, you play some music on the stereo, maybe even mess around on your guitar from time to time. You're "with it" in at least some small way. And as far as you know, your next door neighbor is just a regular go to work type who minds his own business and keeps to himself most of the time. But then one Saturday afternoon, when your cd player is resting and silence fills your house, you hear the faint strains of music riding in from a distance...you listen for a few minutes trying to discern where it's coming from, who it might be...is it Bluegrass...country...folk..., no, wait, that was an electric guitar...it sounds new and familiar at the same time...so you begin to follow your ears...first to the living room, then out the front door as the music grows clearer and a little louder, not to mention the fact that it sounds really, really good! As you stand out in the front yard looking around to see where it might be coming from, you realize that it's coming from your next door neighbor's house. You say to yourself, "hey, I didn't know that guy listened to music...he even has good taste. I'm going to go ask him what it is and where he got it." So you walk over...the music sounds clearer still, louder, and even better...you walk up to the front door. You peek in through the screen door and see that the front door is open, which has allowed the music you've been hearing to reach your ears. And as you look again through the screen door, you can see through the living room and back to the kitchen, where, sitting around the table are you neighbor and his friends...and you realize that this music you have been hearing, this incredible, beautiful music that you followed out your door, is not from a radio, or a vinyl lp, or a cd; no, instead it is your neighbor and his friends...playing music in the kitchen; music that is as good or better than almost anything you have ever heard...

Welcome to The Rosebud Good Neighbor Club.