photos by dave huebner
backcountry powder skiing and living snowed-in in a small wood cabin, backpacking for two weeks or two months, surfing and long trips to Baja, fly fishing, fine wine, kine, beer and a good tri-tip...
...Woody Guthrie, Townes Van Zandt, Bob Dylan, Earl Scruggs, Sam Bush, The Grateful Dead, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Blind Melon (w/ Shannon Hoon), Neil Young, Merle Haggard, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Phish, U2, Joan Baez, Phil Ochs, Cat Stevens, Marcy Playground, Otis Redding, Muddy Waters, Jimi Hendrix, and all the old blues guys,
so many new ones for us now, after a season of festivals yet to close...such as Yonder Mountain String Band, Uncle Earl, Greensky Bluegrass, The Belleville Outfit, Po' Girl, Bad Livers, The Biscuit Burners, The Waybacks, Poor Man's Whiskey, The Devil Makes Three...
but besides all that bullshit we're inspired by playing live around the campfire with friends....we're inspired by living the good life in the high mountains, wide valleys, and deep deserts of eastern California...
Sounds Like
a mixture of sounds and inspirations from old time traditional songs to classic country to Dead-like sounds to strange pyschadelic bass/cello/electric guitar wanderings....to heavy rockin' original songs....
we're always changing, always writing new songs, and completely open in terms of style and sound....
FREAKY CELLO MUSIC from the Looney Bean patio on August 1st, 2008.... A 20 minute drop-D jam with drums, bass, cello (with Wah pedal), and electric guitar (all these links will take you out of myspace and to the file which is located on oldcoyotemoon.com so don't worry and click on through the warning page)
The acoustics at the Side Door make for a special recording, as in the track Oh Loss, Oh Sorrow, above in the player, so all these selections from the Side Door have a unique sound, and are probably some of my favorite recordings of the summer...you should really check out the Sweetwater Canyon track...feel free to download and save them, they all fit on a single audio CD and make a fun album...(it is very unfortunate that Angie was away at the Pick-a-thon in Oregon for this particular show...)
some photos from our trip to Telluride Bluegrass Festival....my god what a time, what a time....
we're currently drinking heavily, bar-B-Q-ing extensively, jamming whenever possible, going to music festivals, and staring at the fall colors and fresh snow on the hillsides...we'll be playing at the Auld Dubliner every Thursday starting this winter on December 4th....come on out for some crazy late night thursdays.... Here we are as a full band, although it's hard to see all of us, we're all there, plus our friend Eiger Mike on djimbe in front...at the Auld Dubliner, in August...
Dave Huebner has been recording in his truck.....aka His Home....and has put together a debut album titled "Ol'Lucille, Folk Songs Recorded in the Back of My Truck", all for sale for cheap on his myspace page....$4.20 for the whole album....click on the image left to go there and check it out....with almost 70 original songs to his name it was about time to lay down 10 of them in classic, solo, original form.....
Dave's got a film here, about living the dream for three winters, snowed-in near Devil's Postpile, CA, not working just skiing powder for 8 months every winter with his friend Mariah....set to an original song.....check it out....
HERE'S SOME OLD LIVE JAMS from The Tap last summer in June and July 2007. with just mostly jon and dave, and sometimes Gabe on djimbe or mandolin.....
....STORY OF THE BAND....... our music began one day a couple years ago in an old 1930s wood cabin (see video above) (built by Elmer and Floyd 1934, then added onto by "Backcountry Bob" Solima from the late 1970s to 2002) at about 7,600 feet in the red and white firs and ponderosa along the banks of the San Joaquin River headwaters....my friend jon carlton had snowboarded down the 3100 vertical foot descent with his girlfriend Monica and their two dogs Esha and Blueberry, and they were visiting for a few days and we'd talked about trying to play some guitar, so Jon borrowed one of my girlfriend Mariah's guitars and started soloing along to the handful of songs I'd written and I was blown away by the sound we had with all of us playing together, Mariah joining in on Ukelele...Jon channels Jerry Garcia's energy and makes it his own....the jam was going so good we called another friend, Todd Ronan and told him to get his ass down for some jammin, and next thing we knew he skied up to the front door with a bucket-bass strapped to his pack full of PBR, and the band was formed....the music that followed rests in our collective conscious as an inspiration of the pure joy of making music in the wilderness with friends
...we're super stoked now to have Alex on drums and Angie on vocals.......the lyrics of my original songs come from the consciousness I gained while spending three winters snowed-in at this unbelievable cabin from October to June, living completely embraced by wildness.....it seeps into your soul and there is no going back....we literally had no road, no neighbors, nothing but empty mountains for perhaps a hundred miles to the north, 20 miles to the west, 10 miles to the east, and the shortest distance of only a few miles clmbing steeply up the backside of mammoth mountain to any sort of humanity. so don't believe people if they try to tell you that you can no longer live in a cabin in the woods....they're wrong, you still can if you're lucky, even in California....
Hey!O.C.M. Thanks for givin a listen. Chris and I would love to jam with you guys sometime. We do a bunch of Mammoth "stuff" in the winter. Maybe one evening this winter. Peace/milo
I was always worried once I dropped Todd on his head when he was just a lil' baby that he'd have a rough time, but it looks like he made it! Yay! Keep pumpin' those tunes out son!
dude, you were living at a point break in baja? i saw a photo on your page that looked like a left punto, and for a goofy-footer like me...that is the gold!! see you soon brother!
Thanks for listening and for the kind compliment. I definitely need to make my way over to the west coast and play some shows soon. Keep in touch and spread the word.
Old Coyote Moon is new favourite of mine, i really dig the sound its like really earthy and different. Stand out for me, great photos too make it all happen for me here!!
DAVE HUEBNER (singer-songwriter, acoustic (w/ effects sometimes) guitar, harmonica, cello, banjo), 
JON CARLTON (electric and acoustic lead guitar, banjo), 
TODD RONAN (bass guitar, upright bass, washtub-bass)
ALEX CLAYTON on drums, and or simply a snare and high hat, and or just a djimbe depending on the place...
ANGIE HUMPHREY (vocals, tambourine, egg shaker, washboard)
Dave Huebner
