A Mothers Way is a poem I wrote for my girlfriend and partner
Vickie Pieper a few years ago… I forgot about it and came
across it yesterday and wanted to share it with you…

This is dedicated to all the Mothers out there!

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A Mother’s Way
Written by Robby LeBlanc for Vickie Pieper © 2005

A mother is protective, when bad is near…
She watches over, til the danger is clear,

A mother’s love, knows no bounds,
She stays up late, just to hear their sounds,

A mother will hold you, when you’re sad,
She’ll rub your tummy, til you feel glad,

A mother’s job, is to help them grow,
She also teaches, they’ll reap what they sow,

A mother’s journey, a life long ride,
It is her children, to whom she is tied,

A mother will hug you, for no reason at all,
Out of the blue, you feel ten feet tall,

A mother encourages, and says you can do it,
Her children trust, she will help them through it,

A mother disciplines, when they go astray,
So when they grow up, they’ll be ok,

A mother is, a spiritual light,
That God trusted, to guide their sight,

A mother does, so many things,
It’s beautiful to see, when she spreads her wings,

They’re so important, we give them a day,
And that day is called, Mother’s Day !
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That’s All For Today,
Robby LeBlanc

Recently Vickie and I saw the movie ” The Bucket List” with
Jack Nicolson and Morgan Freeman. In short, it’s a story of 2 men
that are faced with their own death…

Enstead of just hanging up the gloves, they turrned it into a
wonderful adventure. This adventure takes them around the world
from Africa to the Taj Mahal.

They made there own bucket list which was a list of things
they wanted to do before they kicked the bucket…

Do you have your “Bucket List”?

What would you want to do if you had 60 days left to live?
What would you want to see?
What would you want to do?
What would you want to stop doing?

Anyway, Vickie and I found it to be a wonderful movie.

If you get the chance, check it out. You’ll be glad you did…

Have a Great Day!
Robby LeBlanc

Have a Great Weekend!
Robby LeBlanc

If you want to buy a copy of the Cd go RobbyLeBlanc.com/Cds.html.

Have a great Day!
Robby

He Gave Me All He Had…
This is a very touching article and think you’ll enjoy it!.

This past weekend I was playing at Bistro Zinc restaruant at Lake Las Vegas. (And by the way, it is a great restaraunt)

My music rig is set up so I am wireless. Wwhat that means is, I have plugged my tracks intot the house system and I connected a wireless system to my guitar so I can move around a bit.

Sometimes I play inside the restaraunt and other times I’ll go outside where there are additional tables. But by playing outside, there is usually good amount of foot traffic from people passing by going from shop to shop looking around in the village.

People also tend to stop to listen for a moment or they may decide to come in and join us for dinner. In any case playing in this type of setting makes it very easy to talk with a lot of people while I play.

Additionally, being Las Vegas, this is a tipping town. I’ll be playing and someone will walk up to me and put a tip in my pocket while I’m playing.

Over the years I’ve had some tips that still stand out in my mind.

Here are a few:

About 4 years ago I was playing at the Alladin Casino/Hotel and a guy came up to me and said, “I bet you can’t play any Led Zeppeline.” I said, ” How much you want to bet?” Heck I’m holding the cards! Then he said, ” I bet you can’t play Stairway to Heaven?” I told him to come back the next day. I had to create the tracks. Well he did come back the next day and I played Stairway TO Heaven. He proceeded to put
Five $100 dollar bills in my Tip jar.

I’ll never forget the little girl that drew a picture for me during one of my gigs. She was 10 years old! the picture read, will you marry me when I grow up!

Then there is this other world reknown author that everytime he see’s me play he put’s a $100 bill in my jar. His name is Terry and you see his books in every book store in the world.

Then this past weekend, I was playing at Bistro Zinc outside on the patio in front of the restaraunt. It was pretty busy and a lot of people were walking by. I just got through playing this new upbeat latin Jazz song I had just written, when this little boy came up to me.

I could see him reaching into his pocket and he said “this is for you.” He extends his little hand and offers me $.21 cents and said, ” this is all I have Mr. Guitar Man.I said “wow! Thank You! ” I then asked, “why are you giving me this” and he said, ” because your reallly good!”.

How old are you I asked” the little boy/man said proudly, I’m 4 years old!”

This touched my heart.

Have a Great Week!
Robby LeBlanc

Yes, she was an extra! We looked and looked and it appears we finally saw her in 1 scene but if you blinked, you missed it.

Anyway, we enjoyed the movie. Good story. Good castting. In case you didn’t know, the setting for the movie is in Las Vegas. The story is based upon poker players and there life. If you follow poker programs on TV at all, you will recognize some of the locations and famous players.

If your looking for Las Vegas gambling type movie with a good story, you’ll enjoy this movie.

I give this a THUMBS UP!

Have a Great Day!
Robby LeBlanc

This past weekend I was playing my gig at Zinc Bistro at Lake Las Vegas and I was just getting ready to play my next tune when this well dressed guy walks up to me and asks:

“Where’s your band”?I replied, ” In the Closet”.He said, “What”! I then told him my tracks were on my ipod, plus I am set up so I am wireless and going through the restaraunt house system. (Which is actually pretty good). He just said, WOW! “You sound great kid”. I extended my hand and said my name is Robby LeBlanc and he said my name is Vince Falcone. I excitedly said “I know you, we Met at Ruth’s, the jazz singers service”.

Anyway, here I was, talking with Vince Falcone, Frank Sinatra’s pianist and conductor for 15 years. He is truly a legend in in own right, and a monster piano player!!! He had come in with his entire family. We had a great conversation, I played for about 2 hours and at the end of the night he walked up to me and said, you play great kid! I said maybe we’ll play together someday!

That is one of the great things about Las Vegas, you just never know who is going to show up!

Have a Great Day!
Robby LeBlanc