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Medicine Road
May 20, 2023 @ 7:00 pm - 10:00 pm
Medicine Road plays outdoors in the Brookdale Beer Garden at the Historic Brookdale Lodge on Saturday, May 20 from 7:00 to 10:00 pm.
Band leader Pablo Eagle writes, “Medicine Road will create a healing swirl of love and affection that will open all our hearts and bring peace to our moment in time, for which no camera was ever built that can record the amount of love we will all share as we journey our waze down the road. Peace, Love, and Music.”
The music is groovy psychedelic rock jam laced with a haunting Native American sound reminiscent of the music of R. Carlos Nakai. Medicine Road plays mostly original material that is centered on musical healing and positive energy. “We feel our music is good medicine for the heart, soul, and body. Praise for the beauty of nature.” Their song Earth in the Key of A is like envisioning a rainforest and bringing everyone into it.
“Our goal is to heal with the music. Through the music and through the lyrics. We put out ideas of the pain of the problem – ‘this’ needs to be fixed.” It becomes a recycling of negative energy, he points out, turning it around into positive and “healing as you go.” “That’s what I do with the music. If we can’t heal ourselves, who can we heal?”
Pablo Eagle has been making music in Boulder Creek forever. He lived in a rented room at the Rainbow’s End back when and remembers asking his landlord, “Are you sure you don’t mind if I play music? She said, ‘I love rock and roll and my husband’s deaf.’” He describes how he wrote Boulder Creek Mama, a song that has become a Medicine Road anthem: “I wrote it 25 years ago at the Junction before it was a park. There was this beautiful young lady in a bikini…she was about to jump off a rock…I was inspired.” The girl who was Boulder Creek Mama worked at Johnnie’s. He asked her if she wanted to come see his band. She said no. He said, I wrote a song about you. She said she was flattered but that was alright. He said, do you have a boyfriend? She said, yeah, kinda. He never saw her again but the song lives on. “We always end our shows with it because it drives everyone crazy, gets people dancing.”
Read more about Medicine Road: santacruzmountainslocal.com/2016/10/01/on-spirit-wings-boulder-creeks-medicine-road
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