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Getting cases out and about with other members of my species, brilliant "bottleneck" guitar and Susan's sultry and they say, is part of the process. If I were to attempt highly-schooled vocal style. It's all about "goosethis out in the yard with an iPod, it would "stifle the bumps" in the key of "blues." I think it was around 1987, following the release personal growth aspect," they insist. Anyway, I've bought into it, and this summer's of "In the Light of the Moon," that I first caught schedule kicks off early tomorrow evening when Los Lobos in concert. Warren Zevon opened for the Barfly Wranglers take the stage at Heber City them at the old "Dirt Palace" at the Utah State Park to jump-start the 2008 version of the Heber Fairgrounds and, suffice to say. although the acoustics flat-out stunk, we had an East L.A. party Valley Concerts in the Park Series. Actually, of late, I've become a Barfly Wranglers on the west side of Salt Lake City that night. Subsequent gigs over the years at the Zephyr, groupie, which isn't all that hard since their shtick is superb and they mostly play at the Other End on Red Butte, Franklin Covey, and The Depot folthe outskirts of Heber and the Beaver Creek Inn lowed. Not to mention the Los Lobos acoustic fieson the outskirts of Kamas. They are a lot like their ta at.the Eccles Center a few years back. And, if music, which exists, in the main, on the outskirts of their multi-instrumental virtuosity isn't enough, you ought to catch them having their way with the honky-tonk, country rock, and blues. My psychoanalytic team doesn't view these ''mole" plates at the Red Iguana each time they encounters with the same rapture as I, however, blow through town. Another "cholo" session is due to the dim lights, thick smoke, and oftentimes scheduled at Red Butte on July 30. What can you say lewd behavior involved. about the juxtaposition OK. I'll try and get a of Alejandro Escovedo handle on that last one. There are some acts that I never and Greg Brown at Red Get outdoors, they say. Drink deeply from the pass up, no matter what And there Butte on Aug 30. Well, you could say "poetic carafe. Bypass the middleman. are many of these "must-see-every- composition of the highest order," that's what! With all the outdoor performers Impressive enough for therapy sessions sched- time-they-come-around" uled this summer, there's who made my list this year. Go figure!" me to get up early in Challis, Idaho, after a absolutely no way to take awash in in them all. So. when one ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ^ ™ i H H H M a M H H i weekend Reckless Kelly and is compiling a list of shows, many highly inviting concerts are necessari- Robert Earl Keen in order to make it back in time. And, in saving what might be the best and most ly going to be left off. So it goes. A couple of others on the Heber Park schedule special for last, a trio of top-shelf shows at Deer that caught my attention were Swagger, the Irish- Valley featuring long-time favorites Lucinda punk force of nature that I've been wanting to see Williams (July 28), the Gypsy Kings (August 26), for quite a spell, and the always fun and interesting and Dwight Yoakam (August 30) ought to put a Motherlode Canyon Band, who wrap up the series crack in my sensibility large enough to allow the sloth and melancholy to flow out. on August 28. The opportunity to catch the Gipsy Kings live Although 1 could well catch Motherlod much earlier when they open the Park City Free Concert after all these years is enough of a draw for me to Series at Deer Valley on June 25, being a Heber skip Bonnie Raitt at Red Butte the same evening. kind of guy, the Wednesday evening shows up at And that, my fellow group-therapy associates, the Snow Park Amphitheater have become increas- could be interpreted as an over-the-top recommendation. ingly more difficult to attend. Then there's the this-just-in announcement of a There are some acts that I never pass up, no matter what. And there are many of these "must- Bob Dylan gig on the grass at Deer Valley August see-every-time-they-come-around" performers 31. Check 'em all out! Bring a cooler! It's all about healing! who made my list this year. Go figure! I've had this thing with Emmylou Harris ever since she showed up on Gram Parson's *'G. P." Jay Meehan is a culture junkie and a free-lance album back in 1973, so her gig at Red Butte Garden writer with a background in commercial and comon July 20 is a no-brainer. Massage-therapy-wise, munity radio, among other pursuits. He has been a ever since that great show at Park West back in the columnist and feature writer for various Park City day, she has always rubbed me the right way. publications going back to 1973. WANDERING THE WEST By Larry Warren • Quick, before it melts Weddings Corporate Even • Parties Save this ad and get a 15% Off • * . ,I your next catered event. I limit one coupon per event. Valid until December 31st, 2008. i ' Choose IRIEfor delicious Caribbean and Cajun Cuisine that's guaranteed tomarm your soul. Not to alarm you, but the glaciers of Glacier National is ringed by chainPark are disappearing. I'm not going to go all A! Gore on link fencing to you and blame global warming, since retreating is what protect the glaciers do, but the rapid rate of snowmelt in Glacier campers from Park lately has some scientists warning that Glacier Park grizzlies last time I will be glacier-less inside of fifty years. stopped by. Glacier is the first national park I ever saw and it Anywhere you camp, take every bear precaution in the remains a treasured place for me. Dad won a Cadillac book, and only read Jack Olson's classic "Night of the Sedan de Ville in a sales contest long ago and loaded up Grizzlies" after you're back home. If you read it beforethe family for a grand road trip from South Dakota to the hand, you won't sleep a wink. Seattle Worlds Fair via Glacier Park. The first mounGlacier is one of America s oldest national parks, dattains I ever saw were Glaciers peaks and I was hooked ing from 1910, so it has several of the grand park lodges on the West thefirstday I saw a mountain rising from the built by the railroads shortly after the turn of the centuplains. I couldn't imagine a grander place and, many ry. Lake McDonald Lodge, Swiftcurrent Hotel, and decades later, I still can't. Although the peaks aren't as Glacier Park Lodge are classics, fun to walk around and lofty as the Colorado or Utah peaks, they rise from the gawk in even if you didn't reserve far enough ahead to Great Plains so they look enormous, and they are. get a room. Other great old railroad hotels are the Izaak Glacier Park is connected Walton Inn outside the at the Canadian border with park's southern border, Waterton Lakes National the Prince of Wales The first mountains I ever saw and Park in Canada. Between Hotel on the Canadian them, there's easily a weeks were Glacier's peaks and I was hooked side. I recall sitting at the worth of things to do. with Prince of Wales Hotel hiking at the top of my list. on the West the first day I saw a moun- patio having a cool one There arc 700 miles of estabwhile taking in the mounlished trails, and backcountry tain rising from the plains. I couldn't tains surrounding exploring in between. This is imagine a grander place and, many Waterton Lake as a pair of one of the biggest national big-horn rams butted parks in the system. There decades later, I still cant" heads a hundred feet in are big glacier-fed lakes and ^^m^^-^^m^^^^^ • • • ^ ^ ^ H I ^ ^ H front of me on the lawn. there are still enough glaciers Now that's a comfy remaining that you can hike up for August snowball wilderness experience! fights. Actually, this far north and this high up, snow can Glacier is a long haul from Park City, but it has to go and does fall in August, and every other month for that your life list. With its hanging glaciers, glacially carved matter, so pay attention to the weather forecasts. valleys, big mountains, big lakes and big game and grand The wildlife here isn't as apparent as a drive through hotels, it is a world-class destination. The United Yellowstone, but look in the right places and you may Nations has declared it and adjoining Waterton as a spot a grizzly bear or two. Glacier has the largest popu- World Heritage Site, and there are plenty of reasons lation of them in the Lower 48. Just west of the park is why. where the first gray wolves reentered the U.S. from Canada to begin a natural repopulation of the once van- Free-lance writer Larry Warren has been wandering ished species. Big-horn sheep and mountain goats the West covering news stories for television and abound at higher elevations, river corridors attract magazines since he landed in Utah in the mid-1970s. moose, and the wide-open spaces are where you'll see In this column he writes about the favorite places he elk. goes back to when he can. Easily the highlight of any Glacier trip is the drive over Going to the Sun Road. It is 75 years old this July and bisects the park in spectacular fashion. I remember THEWALS: the first trip over it in Dad's Cad and it scared a flatlander Park City to West Glacier: 686 miles like me to death. It took 11 years to blast the road out of Web sites: wvAv.nps.gov/glac solid rock as it crosses the Continental Divide at Logan >Aww.no^'onalpaH(reservaHons.corn/glacier;: Pass. 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