A digression, by way of scene and consciousness setting. Here in Eastern Kentucky we got our share of the sheer hell which descended upon my old home in Middle Tennessee. I mean not to complain — a dear friend has […]
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Last night the first radio show I cut for WMKY (ahem, “Grant Alden’s Field Notes”) finally aired. It was (though I didn’t know it) my audition piece, cut back in the fall. I’ve had trouble finding regular time to write […]
At one point, almost grown up, my buddy Wayde was for some reason living in a rental where they’d combined three stereos, so we sat in a small, wood-floor room with two sets of Advents on the bottom and one […]
This is an old rant, revisited. What I say or think makes no difference, and yet I keep typing if only in the vain hope that some other kindred spirit might rise up to smite down the evil which surrounds […]
It is too hot, especially for April, so we went ahead today and planted four and a half rows of corn, and half a row of okra. Tomorrow (or perhaps tonight) we’ll plant the jalapeños and hot banana peppers my […]
This, then, is what it has all added up to: all the van tours, the press notices, whatever imaging money previous labels spent or did not spend. All the work, all the grind, all the heartbreak. It adds up to […]
I seem to come home from the field and check e-mail just in time to find interesting things. So here’s this… I wonder, though…all that co-writing. Seems to be a sign of…maturity, is that it? Guy Clark’s last album (and […]
Official word just crossed my desk that Allison Moorer and Steve Earle’s first child was born April 5, at 10:07 a.m. Named John Henry Earle, he weighed in at 8 pounds 2 ounces and measured 21 inches long. John Henry […]
Quickly, clipping the press release and moving on…never heard this record, not sure that I should care. But I know a lot of y’all will… FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER THE JAYHAWKS’ SELF TITLED 1986 DEBUT (AKA THE BUNKHOUSE ALBUM) […]
Yesterday, a little after four o’clock, working my way home from the recycling center, I stopped by the Fuzzy Duck to pick up a couple iced coffees so my wife would have something to brighten her afternoon after two hours […]
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