In some other reality, some other space and time, I’m living in Medora, North Dakota, with 40 acres out back, a couple of horses broke to drive, a herd of goats, and a yak called Fred. The yak is important: I met one once, not called Fred, and he was a charming creature. I will […]
MoreThis morning it all went wrong. Nothing that could go easily or right did, every interaction and request just went wrong. It was one of Those Mornings. We all have them. Nothing beat the sheer indignity of losing an hour’s sleep, then being greeted with, I shit thee not..”Hello..BANG BANG, baby! How can I make […]
MoreI always like to see Joan Jett getting some love from the metal fans! I love rock and roll too!
MoreKEXP radio/youtube channel have almost sole responsibility for keeping me from withdrawing into the comfortably numb confines of my usual listening habits. They found Big Thief for me, and in the suggestion box of the vagaries of the youtube algorithm, the AI made an astute leap of faith and suggested I might enjoy listening to […]
MoreFor his partial native blood, his biker leathers and his uncanny ability to converse intelligently despite having drunk more 151 rum than any human should attempt, Billy was a redneck. A Minnesotan, dyed in the wool iron range hillbilly who had to be dragged kicking and screaming into polite company. He never did quite manage […]
MoreI will be honest here, I love music. I love music with a passion that is probably unhealthy. I love music like I love my guitars and cups of tea and foggy San Francisco mornings. I love music, but I rarely listen to anything made after 1995. The day Kurt Cobain died was really the […]
MoreLiving on the road, mostly in campgrounds across the USA means a continually changing cast of neighbors to avoid. There is an unspoken rule of leave a space between you and someone else camping, if it is possible. However sure as birds fly or pigs like mud you will regularly find someone who breaks this […]
MoreWe’re driving down the road again Last bath I had was in a bucket of tears Driving down the road again 1000 miles of blacktop And hot chord fears I’m driving down the road again Strip malls, strip bars Strip lights and railroad cars Held together with strips of gum And don’t you think we’d […]
MoreI thought I might amuse myself by making a podcast. I set up anchor, and started to read out some blog posts. Friends, I could not do it! I’ve played music live, I’ll happily sing songs, and subject people to my covers of Moonshiner and Hang me Oh Hang me (the latter by the influential […]
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