I used to live in a really cool log house about a quarter of a mile from the point where the Burlington Northern Santé Fe railroad leaves Lincoln headed South.  At about 2 o'clock in the morning if the windows were wide open and I hadn't been able  to get to sleep you could hear them starting the locomotive engines on the siding by the track…this song was written on a night just like that…It was great to have members of the Oasis Bluegrass Band come into the studio and help out on this!
Don - Lead Vocals, acoustic guitars
Bruce - Dobro
Mike - Harmonica
Rochelle - Harmony Vocals
Jay - Harmony Vocals, Mandolin
Jon - Bass
Nick - Percussion

Diesel Ponies

Written for Rochelle (My Sweet Cherie) while laying tile in the entry to my house…(picture me standing in the living room in dirty work clothes with big knee pads on my knees and a guitar in my hands)…about a month before the wedding, Rochelle's parents had given us an engagement gift of the a plaque that reads "It's never too late to live happily ever after".  It inspired this song…the (condensed) story of our courtship.  Nick wrote a sweet cello part and Ellie brought her cello all the way from Colorado to play the part!
Don - Lead Vocals and Acoustic Guitars
Nick - Harmony Vocals
Ellie - Cello
Jim - Acoustic Bass

Never Gets Too Late

MY ODE TO GORDON LIGHTFOOT...late at night on December 28th, 1977...in a bar in Petersburg Nebraska, while listening to "Gord's Gold" playing over and over on a Pioneer reel to reel tape deck, I was inspired to learn how to play the guitar.  It was the night before my 22nd birthday.  Other than the year, my age, and the fact that it's less than 10 miles from Elgin to Petersburg, this is a true story...no matter what my brother says!

Don Dahlquist