Playing in Creede Colorado this evening
Well I’m sitting in an intgernet cafe in Crede CO, right now writing this entry. I was contacted by the owner through Myspace about march and was asked if I would play at his very tiney Tavern. It’s just a niche of a place with barely enough room for maybe 30 people or a few more. Creede is quite the small town, reminds of Oak Creek Colorado in the 70’s Oak Creek and Phippsberg are located south of Stemaboat Springs about 30 miles south in the Yampa Valley. The town of Creede Is quite quaint but most obviously a tourist town. Here is a shot from Wiki, I should have my own pics in my next entry.
A little info on Creede,
“Travelers to this area appeared in the early 1800s. Tom Boggs, a brother-in-law of Kit Carson , farmed at Wagon Wheel Gap in the summer of 1840. The first silver discovery was made at the Alpha mine in 1869, but the silver could not be extracted at a profit from the complex ores. Ranchers and homesteaders moved in when stagecoach stations (linking the mining operations over the Divide with the east) were built in the 1870s, but the great “Boom Days” started with the discovery of rich minerals in Willow Creek Canyon in 1889.”
“Creede is located at 37°50′58″N, 106°55′34″W (37.849311, -106.925983)[7] near the headwaters of the Rio Grande River, which flows through the San Juan Mountains and the San Luis Valley on its way to New Mexico, Texas, and eventually into the Gulf of Mexico.”
I will absolutely do a follow up to this post and let you know how the gig goes.
