Complete performance – filmed live in Feb 2025 by Barry Morris At the heart of our record, Silent Spike, is the 21-minute epic, Dead Line Creek. The song is a musical depiction of one of the worst atrocities in American history, the murder of over 30 Chinese gold miners by […]
From Yellow Scene Magazine – Original Here. MahlerFest 37 (2024): “Mahler and the Mountains” April 4, 2024 Like 0 Guest Contributor SUPPORT LOCAL MEDIA-DONATE NOW! Press releases are provided to Yellow Scene Magazine. In an effort to keep our community informed, we publish some press releases in whole. Colorado MahlerFest Kenneth Woods, […]
COMING SOON- The Debut Album “Silent Spike” First Single Release: March 2025 Album Release: Summer 2025 Silent Spike is a concept album that provides a meditation on the experiences of the “Railroad Chinese” (also known as the “Silent Spikes”) who built the first Transcontinental Railways in Oregon, California and Washington. […]
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Electric Guitar 1989 ESP Traditional Strat (1957 specs) 2014 Fender Stratocaster (1957 specs) “Mahler” Stratocaster (1963 specs) Fender Telecaster Gretsch Bo Diddley with TV Jones Billy Gibbons and Brian Setzer signature pickups Gretsch 6120 with TV Jones Classic and Classic + pickups Gretsch Round Up 1962 Gibson ES-335 with PAF […]
“From Maine to California, thousands of communities kept out African Americans (or sometimes Chinese Americans, Jewish Americans, etc.) by force, law, or custom. These communities are sometimes called “sundown towns” because some of them posted signs at their city limits reading, typically, “N*gg*r, Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On […]
Lily White Mine Disaster. Located northeast of Baker City in the Wallowa Mountains, the Lily White Gold Mine is thought to be the source of unverified stories about as many as 100 or as few as 13, Chinese miners being trapped in the mine sometime between 1886 and 1889. Either […]
“By the mid 1940s, Chinatown’s residents had gradually moved on, although the historical record does not tell us where or why they left. In the 1970s, after over a century of a Chinatown in the heart of Baker City, the last of its buildings was torn down. Of the approximately […]
“During the year 1893 a time of great economic depression, a great deal of agitation against the Chinese arose – it being felt, particularly by the unemployed, that the Chinese were taking work away from the whites. On 24 September of that year a great mob of men visited Chinatown […]
