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Driving for the Independence School District #30 for years School Bus Driver Blog found out that Larry has been performing in the Kansas City area since the mid-80′s at Libraries, churchs, coffeehouses, bar & grills and festivals. It’s usually his guitar, and harmonica. But he has considered forming a duo or trio with friends, but his music is typically very personal and often on the dark or bittersweet side.
He thanks GOD for the Blessing of his WIFE (who is always there), THE SONGWRITER’S CIRCLE OF KANSAS CITY AND A SPECIAL THANKS TO DAVID HAKAN for his years of hard work. Othe influences are Johnny Cash (The Man), Ian Tyson, Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Emmy Lou Harris (who he thinks she sweet?), Lefty Frizzell, Gordon Lightfoot, Bob Dylan, and once more, JOHNNY CASH.
Hope you enjoy the song here. You may purchase his CD below.
Brother Beno, Drive Safe
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All songs on this CD are written and preformed by LARRY GARRETT
My Old Neighborhood
$11.95 + 3.00 S&H
Songs on this CD include:
My Old Neighborhood, Grandma’s Legacy
The Good Old Days, Enjoy The Ride
Sunday Mornin, Clara Ann
An Old Fisherman, Lucas
The Family Circle , Irene
Grandpa’s Friefed Potatoes, Mr. Richards
She’s Always There, Teresa
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As a public service report of the School Bus Driver Video Blog for the general good of all the drivers in the world, this is a notice that things do not change.
The above video tells of a shortage that has been going on as long as there has been a need of students getting through trraffic or traveling long distances to school.
This came across my notice today and I thought it was a perfect fit for School Bus Driver Video Blog and had to have put it on.
It is not what you would call the multi- million production BUT then as School Bus Drivers we are happy to cover our costs of gas to get to work recently.
So here you have it, a YOUTUBE Video: Bus Driver Song by Rahel, singer/songwriter and school bus driver.
Drive Safe, Brother Beno, Driver, Independence,MO School Dist. #30
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- Robert Hall
Robert Hall is a driver I met on a field trip and on his way back from going to the restroom past my bus, I waved him down and had him come join the conversation between me and another driver. In the process, we started discussing various things and found out that he was a country School Bus Driver, whereas I was a suburban driver and the other driver that was in the conversation was a city driver. So we of course discussed the differences in techniques needed to drive in the various locations. I unfortunately did not have my camera out at that time, but I did manage after he told a few stories of some of the things that he saw out in the country. I did grab my camera, set it up, and then got his permission to record him telling the story. And this is it.
Drive safe, Brother Beno (and do bookmark us below it will help others to find us)
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- Susan Carrick-Mc Connell,
School Bus Driver
Susan is the resident poet at the Independence, Missouri school district bus barn and was asked to read one of her poems for the drivers on the last meeting of the school year. I was there recording in, and that’s how I happened to get this video that you can view. Be in the last meeting I was also asked to tell stories which are on this blog, but I made a mess of on that day. So please feel free to listen because what she has to say does relate well to a driver’s first day. Not to mention the years that follow. So enjoy.
Drive Safe, Brother Beno (and do bookmark us below it will help others to find us)
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When School Bus Driver Video Blog put out the call for stories to go on the blog it turns out that a lot of people don’t want to be videoed telling their stories. But prefer to have them told nonetheless. They then gave them to me written out so that I could then read them myself. Now, I’m not a pushy type to get people to show up on camera, so I decided that I would go ahead and read the stories on camera for them.
This particular collection of stories that I have here were given to me without any names on them. And rather than track them down to find out who gave me the story. I decided to just put them as a category all their own. As you notice I titled it ‘Unknown Driver Stories 1′, because I figure there will be more. This allows people to not give names places or details, but I can at least tell the stories for your entertainment. And if your looking for other kinds of stories you can go here http://www.FairyTaleStoriesBlog.com . Hope you enjoy, and more to come.
Drive safe, Brother Beno (and do bookmark us below it will help others to find us)
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Robert is a fellow driver of mine in the Independence School District. His route at the present consists of picking up homeless children at various shelters and taking them to the schools they are enrolled in before they became homeless until their families can get settled again. And then if they need to they may attend a different school. This allows the children to still have some form of normal life and school life despite the turmoil that is happened. With his route there is a lot of temporary students that he picks up at established shelters, both in and out of the school district. He has to go pick them up no matter what how far out thus leading him to some long days. In that process he had a family member that became homeless. And this is the story that is related because of that.
Drive safe, Brother Beno (and do bookmark us below it will help others to find us)
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Bill Welliver, School Bus Driver
Bill is a driver that I met while on a field trip. We got into a discussion about the various things concerning driving a school bus and I found out that he has a special way of entertaining his HeadStart children with songs that he remembered from his past.
Not knowing how far into the past or from the what year. A song would come into his mind and he would sing it Then they would sing it and for sure it was an improvement over ‘The Wheels On The Bus Go Round And Round’ for untold rounds. So in this video Bill gives us an insight as to the songs he sings and how you can pick some to teach your HeadStart children.
Drive Safe, Brother Beno (and do bookmark us below it will help others to find us)
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