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Sunday, April 19th, 2026
Hey there and welcome to my blog (or rant) page! This is where I’ll be sharing/updating information about our band, my work with C.F. Martin & Co., Inc. and general information that you may find helpful/interesting. Please stop by from time to time and if you have any questions, please use the contact page to get in touch.
Last week we played two sold-out shows: Thursday night at Godfrey Daniels in Bethlehem, PA and Friday night at the Bell Tower Arts & Cultural Center in Bangor/Martin’s Creek, PA. Audiences for both shows were just wonderful.
We’d like to extend our thanks to the great folks who run (and volunteers) at both venues. Of course, sincere thanks to all of you who attended, you were awesome! Looking forward to returning to both venues in the coming year!
This show featured our quartet with Chico Huff, Cliff Starkey, Billy Wear and yours truly.
Link to a performance clip at the Bell Tower:
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/17arBJoeEa/
https://www.godfreydaniels.org
https://belltowerculturalcenter.org
Monday, April 20th, 2026
My new guitar which I purchased last week from Emerald City Guitars in Seattle, Washington, https://EmeraldCityGuitars.com should be arriving today. It is a 1970 Gibson Les Paul Deluxe Goldtop, exactly what I had purchased new in December, 1969 from Sine’s Music Center, in Quakertown, PA. This was my very first, really good guitar when I was a kid. My dad and I saw it in the shop window display at Christmas time. It was the prettiest guitar I’d ever seen at that time…I had to have it. So we went into the store spoke with the owner, Dale Sine, and he said I could put it away and pay weekly on it until it was paid off. It cost $380 brand new, with the case, a rather large sum of money for a 13 year-old kid at that time. Considering I had a daily paper route (7 days per week, mornings), along with a Saturday job as a busboy at a local Quakertown restaurant (Mr. D’s) it was still going to take a while for me to pay off the guitar, but I did it.
Christmas, 1970
Tuesday, April 21st, 2026
I wrote a new song for Earth Day last night. Here are the lyrics:
EVERY DAY IS EARTH DAY–
Craig Thatcher-copyright Thatchmo Music, 2026
Every day is earth day, we all must do our share
Try and save our planet, show the world we care
Rivers overflowing, with garbage and debris
Plastic in the ocean, killing dolphins in the sea
Refrain:
We only have one planet, but we just can’t agree
Climate change is real, but there’s a remedy
Gather up your cardboard, plastic, tin and glass
Don’t toss it in a landfill, where it will forever last
You can do your own part, we all must lend a hand
Recycle for the water, and the beauty of the land
Refrain:
It’s a legacy we’re building, day by day its getting worse
Situation’s critical, we gotta set this in reverse
Every day is earth day, we all must do our share
Try and save our planet, show the world we care