Last month, my friends and I participated in a play, "Hank Williams: Lost Highway," put on by the Williamston Theater Company in Lansing at Lansing Community College. I liked it a lot:
- Actors are great - They're somehow funnier than everybody you know, and are probably at least a novice at everything you do, in addition to being a great actor. And they're tons of fun.
- This play is a story of Hank Williams' life told through a good story and bit of a musical review. It calls for a cast full of actor-musicians, although some have to be more on the actor side, and some more on the musician.
- Hank Williams' music was great for the song writing (hilariously poor for cognisant phrase length) and well known and widespread in influence in a way I never realized.
- He had some crazy players that played with him. I got to play with some crazy musicians for this project. Crazy.
- One of the best musicians I ever met played this instrument, which will be the new focus of this post:
This is a crazy instrument, and I got to spend lots of time with an excellent person who is amazing at playing it and guitar. Triple neck steel guitar = beautiful. Three different necks for different tunings. Excellent.
