I was on the road in the late Sixties, early Seventies, swept along by the wild ride Freedom takes you on when you’re young. Just out of my one tour in the military. Vietnam era but like most of us […]

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Most people don’t realize that Florida is almost a thousand miles long, from the Alabama state line west of Pensacola to Key West. That’s over two hundred miles longer than California. It’s 362 miles from that same Alabama state line […]

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I woke up at 2:30 this morning in a motel along Route 66 in Gallup, New Mexico, with this line going through my head – ‘Our love ran hot and cold/ like the window unit in a cheap motel.’ It […]

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Okay, here’s my list of country artists from the past. Artists I believe deserve a new listen from a new audience. I’ve been around long enough to remember when I thought everything started with my generation.   Maggie and I […]

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I’ve been thinking about this folk singer business. Maggie and I just returned from playing the Will McLean Festival in Central Florida. Will was a writer of Florida songs, and in 1987 Pete Seeger called him the “greatest living songwriter […]

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I just watched A Mighty Wind again this morning, and I couldn’t stop laughing. I loved it. (I told my son, when the film came out, to rent the DVD and let me know what he thought. He wrote back […]

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Okay, I had a bit of a revelation today while trying to sort through stacks of CDs, mostly without cases, too many with nothing written on them. I propped up a portable CD player on the table and made of […]

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The first album I ever bought (with money saved from bagging groceries at Kwik Chek) was the Webb Pierce Story. Daddy had loved singing along with his song, Wondering, and I loved his honky-tonk records like Honky-Tonkin‘, and Truck Drivin’ […]

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