One afternoon almost two decades ago I was listening to a local radio station when the DJ asked a trivia question. “Who is the only person to be inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame twice?”
Since I lived only a few blocks from Roy Rogers’ home for most of my life, I better know the answer to that one. And that answer won me two tickets to an autumn concert among the rocks at Calico Ghost Town, a deserted mining town located just northwest of Barstow, California.
Calico is a perfect place for a concert. There are no city lights to drown out the stars. There are no city sounds to interfere with the music. As a matter of fact, nature makes its own music—the howl of an occasional coyote or the chirp of a cricket. Those are my last memories of Calico Ghost Town until yesterday.
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