Vintage View Vednesday - July 2003 Recording

Our flashback this week soars back in time to July 2003. We had left the pastorate in Wichita the first Sunday in January and we were enjoying our first full year back on the road since 1993. We were traveling in our 2003 Chevy, pulling our 1984 Hitchhiker 5th wheel, enjoying great revivals and having a time!

A bunch of our immediate family had gathered for a few days of rest in Owensboro, Kentucky at Crabbfest. It was a lot of fun. Afterward we drove to Nashville, Tennessee for our second recording session there. Recording makes us nervous but the excitement is bigger than the nerves every time!

Ben Isaacs had a great bunch of musicians scheduled to lay down the music tracks on Monday at Hilltop Studio. Tracking day is the most exciting part of the recording process and we were stoked for the day to begin.

This was the recording session for "This is How It Feels to Be Free."

This is the song list from that CD.

1. He Came Through (The Lord Came Through)

Ashley Cleveland, James Hollihan, Russ Taff, Walter H. Wilson Jr./Warner-Tamerlane Pub. Co./BMI

2.  You Saved Me

Jeff Silvey, Michael Puryear/Milene Music, BMG Music Pub., Inc./BMI

3.  God Says You Can

Marcia Henry, Karen Peck/Chesnut Mound Music, Karen Peck Music/BMI

4.  I Think I’ll Take Some Time

Bryant Jones Sr./Ship Publishing/All Rights by Just Mike Music/BMI/2nd verse written by Sharon Whitley

5.  When Nothing But A Miracle Will Do

Rhonda Elizabeth Belford, Aaron Wilburn/House of Aaron Music/BMI

6.  Redeemed                                              

Gerald Crabb/Crabb’s Song Music/BMI

7.  This Is How It Feels To Be Free                

Sean Craig, Dave Clark, Don Koch/Ariose Music, Praise Song Press, Admin. By E.M.I Pub./ASCAP

8.  I’m At Your Mercy

Harrie and Joyce Martin McCollough, Jeff Silvey/Berlin Rd. Music, Joyce Martin McCollough Pub., Willow Branch Pub./BMI

9.  Soon Be Gone

Davy Boggs/Odie Podie Music/BMI

10.  Do Your Little Part

David Rose/Odie Podie Music/BMI

11.  Power To Restore

Davy, Kelly and Odie Boggs, Rick Combs/Odie Podie Music/BMI

Wow! We have sung a few of those songs a time or two!

The vintage pictures today come from those few days in Nashville. We need to get back into the studio for another record and these pictures really make us want to do it!

A 17 year old Odie and the incredible Aubrey Haynie. 

Aubrey played fiddle, mandolin and banjo on this project.

Ben Isaacs and Steve Chandler at the board giving someone a hard time.

Ben and Odie doing what we all do best!

Ben recording background vocals

Odie and Bobby All. Bobby played acoustic guitar on this project. 

Bobby's roots run way back in music, playing sessions and producing for many, many years. He played on and produced many of the records we grew up listening to on Eddie Crook's labels.

The fat guy with the John Deer suspenders.

Odie and Gary Prim

Gary played piano on This Is How It Feels To Be Free. Gary has been a piano player, songwriter and producer in Nashville going back to the 70's but we remember he most for his years with the Hinsons! Wow!

Odie and Greg Ritchie.

Greg has played on all of our studio projects in Nashville and we love him to pieces.

Odie and the legendary Kelly Back

Kelly Back was raised in our neck of the woods. He is a Pentecostal boy from Verity Parkway Church in Middletown. He has played for every one including the Hinsons and the Gaither stuff. He is tremendous and a really nice guy.

Kelly Jo singing!

Steve Chandler

Steve has engineered three of our records, Cradled In Grace, This Is How It Feels To Be Free and Simple Truth. I can sit and listen to Steve's stories about traveling with and recording the Happy Goodman's all day long.

Now we are back to Ben and Odie eating donuts again!

That is our Vintage View Vednesday post for this week. I hope you enjoy it.

Davy

Another Green Machine Milestone

We purchased the Green Machine, a 2006 Envy Green Scion xB, in early May, 2012. It had nearly 74,000 miles on it when we brought it into the family. We introduced it to you on May 9, 2012.

Here are a couple of pictures of it then.

By late November 2013 the Green Machine was rolling over 100,000 miles. We were going through Memphis on our way from Claremore, Oklahoma to where the bus was parked in Alabama.

Here it is at 99,999

And at 100,000 miles at 7:41 PM Thanksgiving Day 11/28/13 in Memphis, Tennessee. 

At that time we were averaging 1370 miles per month and less than 16,500 miles per year. This week, we are approaching 174,000 miles on the odometer. That is 100,000 miles since we bought it and 74,000 miles since the end of November 2013.

That brings our average mileage up to 1480 per month and 17,760 per year. Not too bad for us at all.

In November 2013 when the odometer rolled over 100,000 miles, I estimated that we would hit 200,000 on the odometer in January 2020. Now we are on track to hit that number in June 2019. It will be interesting to keep track of that.

I snapped a few pictures of the Green Machine last week on a sunny day in Foley, Alabama. It was not spiffed up in these pictures but it was reasonably clean.

As you can see, it is a little worse for wear. The above picture is from last week and this one is from early May 2012.

Keep in mind, it has been driven 100,000 miles between pictures plus pulled behind the BoggsMobile probably another 100,000 miles and pulled inside the tent trailer a bunch more miles. It deserves to show its age!

It has been a super great car. I believe it will make it until summer of 2019 when it rolls over 200,000 miles on the odometer and I hope it goes farther than that.

I did tell Kelly Jo recently that after we have the house project behind us, it is time to seriously begin saving for our next vehicle to tow behind the bus. Until then, the Green Machine will keep pushing the BoggsMobile down the road.

Thanks for stopping by to sit a spell today.

Davy

Weekend Woundup and Weview February 5, 2018

The weekend started with Lambert's in Foley, Alabama and ended with a great service and wonderful fellowship in Mauriceville, Texas. If you add in about 400 miles of driving and a little bus induced psychosis, it all adds up to a pretty good weekend.

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Friday lunch was at one of our favorite tourist type places. A trip to Lambert's pretty much guarantees and good time. We nearly laughed ourselves silly with Pastor Eddy Sullivan and Associate Pastor Corey Brown!

Friday night we had a great service with a bunch of fellowship from other churches. The church from Copeland drove about two hours to be with us. It was great to have them. When it was over, we were praising God for a good conclusion to revival.

We did not have to hit it too early Saturday morning so I let the girls rest a little and then we prepared to hit the road. I snapped a few pictures before we pulled out.

We are dealing with an electrical gremlin in the BoggsMobile. I have a few regular readers that originally came here from the Prevost Community Forum. They already know about this problem because the guys over there have been helping me with it this week. 

The fan on the radiator is temperature controlled but it is coming on immediately now. That prevents the engine from getting up to temperature. The Detroit 60 series is not as fuel efficient when running too cool and the fan running constantly uses more fuel too.

The guys at the PC forum have helped me narrow the problem down and now I am searching for the specific culprit. It is not really keeping us from running but it makes the drive more stressful. 

After a little over 200 miles we parked in the Bass Pro east of Baton Rouge and unhooked the Green Machine so that we could visit the Mexican food buffet that we discovered two years ago. This place is really good!

The great meal, the bus induced psychosis and the rain finished me off for the day. We drove back to the bus at Bass Pro and we were sleeping before too long. I actually slept pretty good over night.

We were not scheduled to preach until Sunday night but we had intended to visit a church Sunday morning. Since we did not drive far enough Saturday, we had to make some time toward Texas on Sunday.

We made one last stop for fuel before we made it to the church.

We pulled into the House of Prayer near Mauriceville, Texas about 4:30. By the time we were parked, hooked up to utilities and had our sound loaded in and hooked up, we only had a few minutes to get ready for church at 6:00.

We had a wonderful service with Pastor Mark Compton and his folks Sunday night. We will try to have pictures later in the week.

That wraps up the weekend. Thanks for dropping in.

Davy