Merle Haggard sues Green Train

Country star Merle Haggard has sued an environmental awareness group, claiming it illegally used his name and likeness to raise money.

The lawsuit was filed Thursday in Chancery Court against the Green Train, a Nashville-based organization, and its founder, Robert K. Wolf. It seeks unspecified compensatory damages.

Haggard claims in the lawsuit that the group forged his signature and exaggerated his involvement with the organization to solicit money. He says his reputation could be irreparably harmed by continued association with the group.

The Green Train bills itself as a nonprofit that educates the public about environmental issues. Its concert-and-train tour scheduled to depart Portland, Ore., in April and travel through 28 states on a six-week whistle-stop tour with several concerts along the way before ending in Washington D.C.

Read the entire story, HERE.

A custom Merle Haggard motorcycle built by EcoOutlaw Motorcycles

These are the folks that made the winning bid for this bike. What a great looking bike!


Visit EcoOutlaw to find out more about their bikes.

Hobo Film Festival is on tour

I always wanted to hop on a train and see the country in the true hobo way but I never did. I would love to see the film from Shawn Lukitsch and to see what he has to offer. I hope someone makes it to one of his showings and gives me a full review of the film.
~Corey aka C.S. Webbspun


Photo is from the New York Times

For nearly as long as rail lines have crisscrossed the country, there have been stories about wanderers covertly climbing aboard train cars and riding away from problems or speeding toward some glimmering promise on the horizon.

The paths of train hoppers, tramps, hobos and travelers, looking for work, adventure or merely free transportation, have been recorded in lyrics and in literature. Jack Kerouac, Jack London and John Steinbeck have written about them. They have populated the songs of Merle Haggard
and Woody Guthrie.

More recently, filmmakers have documented the experience of riding the rails across the country’s varied terrain. And some of those works were recently screened in a storefront community center in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, as part of a traveling cinematic exhibition called the Hobo Film Festival, which is progressing from state to state by way of a $200 Toyota station wagon driven by a 31-year-old train hopper from Asheville, N.C., named Shawn Lukitsch.

Read the entire story in the New York Times.

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Here are some hobo markings and what they mean

They Love Nashville in Germany

This was just outside of some neighbors house and we all enjoyed some champagne to celebrate the new year and one of the neighbors has a country band and they sang some songs for us and we all sang along.



We went from one place to another and everyone had a bottle of champagne to keep filling the glasses. Everyone was happy, joyous and excited about the new year as the smell of fireworks still filled the air. Sorry about the look on my face but I was blinking and wasn't intoxicated.