My monthly bit of abject self-promotion: The next edition of “Grant Alden’s Field Notes” airs Friday night, July 30, at 7 p.m. EST on WMKY-FM. For various reasons involving lawyers (but not guns) and money, they can’t podcast the show. […]
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Most of yesterday morning was spent staring at the arse end of a chicken — actually, seven chickens; the last of two dozen ordered as the barbeque special from Murry McMurray — and contemplating the music of Gogol Bordello. I […]
When I finish my coffee and our little girl wakes up so we can have breakfast together, I’ll drive out to the farm and help my father-in-law harvest chickens. In the meantime, this morning’s text comes from Merle Haggard, and […]
Let me clip publicist Martha Moore’s official press release first, and then, below, I’ll add a bit of my own. Songwriting Legend Hank Cochran Passes Away Last night, Jamey Johnson, Billy Ray Cyrus and Buddy Cannon dropped by to sing […]
It is, perhaps, unbecoming — a sign of arrested development — but even at 51 I remain an angry young man at heart. (Or else I was born a curmudgeon; or both.) Even with all the good things in my […]
If memory doesn’t over-serve, I ran onto Johnny Berry’s music during production of the final print edition of No Depression, too late to do much to…ahem…advance his career. That he lives across the state in Louisville is surprisingly irrelevant; I […]
The twenty sides Ruby Johnson recorded for Stax/Volt in 1966-68 were finally released in something like album format in 1993, assembled under the title of the first track, I’ll Run Your Hurt Away. It appears to have been reissued subsequently […]
I wrote quickly an earlier version of this in the morning and posted it up on dailykos. Because I’m a glutton for punishment, I’ll amend and publish here as well. Paul Krugman’s editorial of the day argues that we in […]
This Friday (June 25), the next installment in the deftly named “Grant Alden’s Field Notes” will air on WMKY-FM at 7 p.m. EST. The theme for this hour, recorded so many months ago that I can’t even find the script […]
It has perhaps slipped through some of my typing here that we are building a new home. A green home, smaller than the sprawling ranch in which we now live, as energy efficient and self-sufficient as we can manage. Some […]
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