Revisiting and old recording with Long Time Gone Band made current by the War in Ukraine

Find the Cost of Freedom (CSN & Y Cover) Long Time Gone Band

The ghost of Christmas Past.  So glad we recorded these songs while Al Bethune was with us.  Larry Butterton and I sing with Al.  Cliff Mitchell plays lead guitar, Mike Harris is on bass and Chris Kennedy plays drums and introduces song.

Zat You Santa Claus?

Christmas Peak

Zat You Santa Claus - Peak City Blues Project

Jordan Lake Swimmers do this classic traditional blues

Come on in the Water's Fine

If the River Was Whiskey - Jordan Lake Swimmers

I've Just Seen The Face (2) - MVOC

Featuring Gary Black on Vocals and Guitar

Coming Down Off the Mountain - Jordan Lake Swimmers

Here we are playing a tribute to Apex, NC which was the highest point on the Chatham Train Line and got it's name from that.  Trains have always been and important part of Apex.  This song was written by the highly talented Fred Eaglesmith

I Like Trains - Live at Eva Perry Library - Jordan Lake Swimmers

Having a Peak Christmas Season

Merry Christmas Baby - Gary Miller & Peak City Blues Project with Connie Carringer

Staring at 4 walls with STAY AT HOME rules, your mind starts playing strange games with your artificial intelligence device.  Releasing this on April Fool's Day seems most appropriate.  Maybe it should be called Alexa Fools.

This song is about a love-hate relationship with Alexa

Alex

Alexa

Mary Did You Know, Instrumental for Christmas

Mary Did You Know 2020 - 12:20:20, 1.45 PM

Gary Miller is a cousin of Ola Belle Campbell Reed.  She was from Ashe County, NC and played with Gary's step granddad, Elmer Elliot in a mountain string band called the North Carolina Ridge Runners.  Gary spent his early years denying the power of mountain music in the foothills of North Carolina outside Winston-Salem knocking around in bands like The Missing Links, The Individuals and the Vandals.  They were below AWBs.  After many years of “jumping around the bonus room” with an electric guitar Gary returned to acoustic music being drawn back in through the church. “Once you have time to consider things, singing to God is the most important thing you can do.”  Then came the bluegrass period where Gary sang and played reso guitar with More Grass For Less, later called the Riverwood Life Boys. “We had the privilege to play about every school auditorium in Johnston County.” Today Gary is blessed to sing and play at area churches and for Alpha ministry events.  He has converted that bonus room into recording studio and has been fortunate enough to work and record with impressive up and coming talented musicians like Kristen Scott, Ian Verhaeghe (aka the Haitian artist known as Frank-Marc) and Seth Pierce. Living in Apex he manages a music business called Apex Peak Music.  You can hear Gary's work in other bands on Reverbnation.com by searching Peak City Blues Project, Jordan Lake Swimmers and Long Time Gone Band.

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