View From The Front Porch-Stan Hitchcock-November 3, 2012

One of the treasures of a life spent in music, is the friendships you develop from the miles you travel together, the songs you sing on stage together, the times backstage, before and after the shows and the special kinship that musicians share after the crowds are gone, the songs all sung, and all that is left is the warm feeling of the lingering melodies and the unspoken understanding of what it all meant. One of those treasures is my friend Bobby G. Rice, who after all these years of friendship is still exactly the same Bobby G. that I always knew and love. Here we are after a recent Heart to Heart where he sung for me, "You Lay So Easy On My Mind", a song he wrote and recorded many years ago and still is just as fresh and good today as when he wrote it.

Bobby G. and I are not present day hit makers, selling millions of records and filling up auditoriums, 18 years old and singing about life as they understand it.....no, we are just a couple of old troubadours, with the miles etched in our faces, the years that have mellowed us and the experiences that gave a truth to our songs. I know it's probably hard for most folks to understand, but I wouldn't trade places with the modern day hit makers for anything. I had my run, I sang my songs, and my friends from those years are my treasures, and they do, "Lay So Easy On My Mind".    -Stan