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These guys speak fluent redneck — the Honey Island Swamp Band.

Rednecks Everywhere

by Kimberly Nicoletti July 5, 2011 July 2011

Honey Island Swamp Band claims its Bayou Americana makes you smarter, thinner and better looking — but frontman Aaron Wilkinson also admits to being a fifth-generation North Florida redneck.

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Bob Chamberlain’s Mountain Vision

Bob Chamberlain’s Mountain Vision

by Bob Chamberlain July 5, 2011 July 2011

Somebody once said to me, “You sure do a lot of things you don’t want to do!”

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Movies: “Cold” by Forge Motion Pictures

Movies: “Cold” by Forge Motion Pictures

by Brendan Leonard July 5, 2011 Film

“Cold” gives you an up-front seat to all the post-holing, avalanche burials, whiteouts and the high-altitude coughs.

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Books: “The Quotable Chongo on How To Be Bitchin, Volume One” by Chongo

Books: “The Quotable Chongo on How To Be Bitchin, Volume One” by Chongo

by Brendan Leonard June 28, 2011 Books

Charles “Chongo” Victor Tucker III is one of the most legendary dirtbags in the history of dirtbags, and probably the most-famous dirtbag in the history of Yosemite.

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The Almont Resort, between Gunnison and Crested Butte. Photo: Dawne Belloise

The Wild Side of Life: Roadhouses, Honky-Tonks and Dives

by Dawne Belloise June 28, 2011 July 2011

… a roadhouse, honky-tonk or just a dive?

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Bob Chamberlain’s Mountain Vision #179

Bob Chamberlain’s Mountain Vision #179

by Bob Chamberlain June 1, 2011 June 2011

The literal meaning of the word “Nikon” is a “living moment in being-time.” It’s part of the overall process of “presenting” the truth. You don’t have to go out and get it; it comes to you.

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Way of the Mountain #179

Way of the Mountain #179

by Mountain Gazette June 1, 2011 June 2011

This month’s featured book and poet is Norman Shaefer’s “The Sunny Top of California: Sierra Nevada Poems & A Story” (La Alameda Press, Albuquerque, 2010).

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Telluride local/pirate Hawkeye Johnson and the author pause for the cause at the Telluride Bluegrass Festival, 2009. New Belgium's brews are on tap at the festival in June, and the adult sippy-cup is a free upgrade.

Beer at Altitude – Mountain Brewfests Kick Off Summer

by Erich Hennig June 1, 2011 June 2011

Late Thursday evening, early spring, van driving hard toward Pagosa Springs on the yearly penance run to the Front Range for a weekend of old friends, bluegrass, weirdness and beer at the Boulder Theater.

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Metalhead. Photo: Dawne Belloise

The Damned DUI Factor

by Dawne Belloise June 1, 2011 June 2011

Music business is conducted in a far different manner than it was a couple of decades ago, primarily due to the internet reinterpreting how audiences all over the world access and listen, as well as how artists promote.

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MURS

Hip-Hop Grandma Doles Out Sex Advice

by Kimberly Nicoletti June 1, 2011 June 2011

Being the road-traveling warrior he is, MURS, who’s played Breckenridge and other mountain towns this season, thought he had seen it all — until he met Denver’s hip-hop mom a few years ago.

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