Ian Moore

Yall know that Republicans passed a bill that allowed insurance companies to be for profit in the 70’s, and that since then the cost of health care has soared and US health has plummeted.

This is literally one of the most f’d things happening right now. People are literally dying all the time because of this absolute bu****it.

I have been working for over a year to get approval for a drug that is used to treat SD. My neurologist has been submitting study after study showing the results. Since insurance gets to approve or deny, since they work with pharmaceuticals and everything is inflated like some Blackwater bs, this process is extremely ridiculous.

Finally, after months and months of appeals, research, collaboration, I’m approved!

Glory be!! So, I call the drug people. It turns out the prescription was approved but they only approve 30 pills. But the drug company packages the drug in 45 pill amounts. Of course, the insurance company knows this. So, they are able to approve yet not have to fulfill the prescription.

So, weeks go by. Insurance finds excuse after excuse. It gets to the point where the medical team tells me point blank that they can tell insurance is obfuscating on purpose.

We are on my wife’s insurance, and she is changing jobs, so our insurance ends at the end of the month.

Insurance should never be for profit.. this is basic ethics. Putting people’s health in a model where companies make money on it will never have good outcomes. It is like having a petro chemical company with only an internal review of environmental cleanliness.

Im pi**ed, but thankfully my life isn’t dependent on it. But, what makes me so angry is that so many people’s lives are.

People assume that Austin has always been a live music town with a deep counterculture, but it wasn’t always that way.
My dad’s bud Don Hyde opened up the first counterculture club in 1967(my godfather Jim was one of the liquid light show guys projectionists)
The club was called the Vulcan Gas Company, and it started so many things that would never have happened without it. It was the conduit to the Bay Area, it was the connection to a lot of outside thinkers, many of whom first saw the town coming to play there. It connected Austin to a lot of great blues players, as well as psychedelic cats.
Without it there is no Armadillo, no soap creek, no Antones. You have to wonder if Willie would have moved back, or so many other things that helped to create this culture that many think was always here.
Johnny Winter played a few days before I was born, and my very pregnant mom was there, along with much of the small counter culture. My folks always say that I kicked like crazy the whole show and they think it got me ready to come into the world.

They just put out a great documentary on the Vulcan over at PBS. Go check it out!

We are celebrating 30 years of this record, and it’s wonderful to be able to look back on such a wild time and share it.

The heart of it was a reclamation of many things that were spinning beyond our control.
I got into music wanting to dig deep into culture and try to grab art. I found much of that early in the study of the infinite and deep dive of the blues. But most of what I loved about that music and culture was unique to a small world around me, and quickly got distorted as money and power came into the picture.

I met Terry Allen the first time in Lubbock at my first Joe Ely “hometown” show. Bukka wasn’t playing with me yet, but I felt something really familiar in who he was and what he was about. I loved how uncompromising he was, and over the next couple of years, I got to know him, as well as many of the artists that circulated that world.
This time felt like recapturing something that I had before the record deals and all the stuff, when I could really speak for myself with music.
I can’t stress how important it was for me, not just in discovering who I wanted to be as an artist, but in discovering who I wanted to be as a human.
This record was the first of an important schism. It pi**ed a lot of people off, including the label. Lots of fans were confused. But, as a band, we felt more solidified and in step than ever before.

The front and back covers are sculptures of Terrys on a ranch in Northern California. They speak so well for the songs that live inside.

Drove home after an epic Kessler show, got to sleep at 4:30. Found out on this trip that Sherpa was overdue for an oil change and AC wasn’t cooling. No time to make an appointment, so I got up at 7 and spent the better part of the day as a mechanic. I’d never used those AC manifold guages before, so kinda cool to learn how to do that, and definitely a lot cooler now.

It wasn’t how I would have chosen to spend the day off in the middle of a lot of shows and driving, but it sure was a lot easier basking in the glow of these shows.

Every place we played was packed, but more than that, y’all brought so much energy! I’m amazed that material that came out 30 years ago can still move a crowd like that, and I got to hear so many stories about our music and how it’s connected to your lives! As always, a joy to play with Bobby Perkins Jan Flemming and Ed Jarusinsky. Had some great bands sharing stages: The Mighty Orq Brad Absher , and 𝚁𝚈𝙰𝙽 𝙼𝚌𝙶𝙰𝚁𝚅𝙴𝚈 . And all star merch help by Stephanie Gordon Bailey Kim, and Donna, and some of our fave venues The Heights Theater The Shrine and The Kessler Theater
The TXHH have a festival in Kentucky tomorrow, so I traded costumes and am back on I35, but in a different van.

I’ll be taking a redeye back Thursday morning to come do a couple of more shows to celebrate Modernday folklore 30 years!

Thursday San Marcos- summer in the park
Friday Austin- Antones- Elijah Ford opens

Anyone an outboard expert? Was checking compression and have a dead cylinder. Can’t afford a new motor, so gonna try to figure this one out! At minimum gonna have to replace a piston and probably rebore a cylinder, but could use some tips from folks that actually know what they are doing

Hey friends! I know we will see many of you at the shows in a couple of weeks, but for those of you who can’t make it, we are selling these also on the website. Design by and deep thanks to for putting it all together.

Come celebrate the 30th anniversary of Modernday Folklore! We are releasing the album on vinyl to celebrate and will be playing a few shows next month.

So many crazy stories behind that one!
June 11 houston
June 12 Tulsa
June 13 Dallas
June 18 San Marcos
June 19 Austin

I have to get the Botox shots every 3 months. They barely work on me and it’s no fun having a needle through your throat.
Gotta put some frosting on the frog cake, so I make it a field trip and do some stocking up on some of my favorite foods. We are lucky to have a fresh chinese noodle shop downtown, so I always pick up some Sha ho fun. I found a new Vietnamese market and checked them out. Pad see ew tonight, or as the kids would say it “Pad see ew again??” And then gonna try some pho tai tomorrow

Lots of shows coming up. I’ll get back to talking towns soon enough

As a kid, the shows I saw had a magic that went way beyond the performance. My memory of early soap creek and armadillo is a communion born out of community and a reverence for the unique language of this music that everyone circled around. I’ve been trying to find that energy my whole life and I’ve had moments, always when community dominated and that material hype feeling was far away.
I knew this would be an important show. I am so proud of my kids for forging their paths, and I had also spent a lot of time writing these short stories that joleen could read. I knew having and would bring a great deal of magic, and that bringing would do the same

Every show is a challenge for me right now. Just to sing takes everything aligning, so when I got a nasty cold 2 days before I felt this heavy darkness creeping in. I tried not to think about it, as I was so excited to have everyone up.
At Soundcheck I literally couldn’t make a sound. I sat in a dark room with my head over a steamer for hours, and I was going really dark. The fact that I was so stuck in my own s**t while I knew my kids were needing their dad to be there- that felt like a ton of bricks.

When the show started, I walked sidestage, and watching the kids up there, revealing themselves in such beautiful ways, was like a key. I started weeping and it opened everything up. It was just so beautiful. And then I looked out in the room, knowing how many of our community were there, how many friends had come in.. and then joleen read the first story-she said the line “the people who needed to be here would be here” and we walked out.

My voice was barely there, but it didn’t matter because the room was open, and the very fragility of it all was where the grace lay.
I had planned to end on the song I wrote for Molly, joleen’s mom, and Warren graciously sang it as my voice would not, and the room sang along..

This is all I’ve ever wanted. I don’t care about any of the other stuff. That connection.. that magical stuff that we pull in the marriage of music and community. It is truly the greatest magic we have.

Thank you to you all

So excited about this show! This will be the first time Bukka has played with me on Vashon, the first time Warren has! The godfather of our kids is playing(you will have to guess!) and my dear friend . will be reading a couple of stories I wrote, and Levi and August will both open the show and join us on stage!! it’s a family affair!!