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Year in Review 2020

The jcshepard.com blog took a break this year as we worked out some technical details… and worked through the COVID-19 pandemic. We moved to New Mexico the first of the year, then went to work from home in March. August … Continue reading

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Under Construction

Howdy! Please excuse the dust. We’re making improvements to the good old jcshepard.com. Stay tuned!!

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Aztec, New Mexico

The City of Aztec and Consensus Planning are hosting an online Public Meeting this evening, July 30, 2020, for the Aztec Comprehensive Plan Update project. I worked in Aztec, New Mexico, on a temporary basis before I moved up to … Continue reading

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Raton, New Mexico

Willow Springs stage station once provided respite at the southern base of Raton Pass for travelers on the Santa Fe Trail’s mountain cutoff. In 1879, the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railway set rails over the pass from Colorado and … Continue reading

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Absaroka County, New Mexico

In 2004, author Craig Johnson created Sheriff Walt Longmire as the protagonist in his series of Western-crime novels set in fictional Durant, Wyoming, county seat of the equally fictional Absaroka County. Longmire is a crime fighter, but first and foremost … Continue reading

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Waiting on COVID

I guess we’ll have to wait a while longer before we get our kicks on Old Route 66. Be safe, be well, be prepared. (Photo credit to my son.) .

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Corb Lund Live at the Launchpad on 2020-03-08

Corb Lund put on an amazing show on Central Avenue–Old Route 66–in Albuquerque, New Mexico, on Sunday March 8th, 2020, just before we all went into nation-wide lockdown. Corb has a new album coming out, Agricultural Tragic, and I scored … Continue reading

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Grammys do Good, Ameripolitan Awards do Awesome

Dale Watson doesn’t much care for the “Americana” appellation, so he went and dubbed himself “Ameripolitan”. That’s a nod to the old “Countrypolitan” style of Chet Atkins’ 1960s’ Nashville Sound. Now I’m not much of a Chet Atkins fan of … Continue reading

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2019 Blog Posts in Review: JCShepard.com turns 10

It’s the end of the decade… or maybe that’s the end of 2020 instead of the beginning. Either way, jcshepard.com is 10-years old, a decade since we went online 1 January 2009. Happy birthday to the blog. In 2018, our … Continue reading

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JC’s Americana Top Tunes of 2019

The Year in Music for 2019 was dedicated to Guy Clark and Susanna Clark, with a coda for the late, great Townes Van Zandt. As soon as I heard about Steve Earle’s project to dedicate an album of covers to … Continue reading

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