“ …we didn’t have no place to go, so we just walked around and lived in them...
Creative Writing
Confusion (For Lindsey) I don’t deserve this punishment But there is no escape I used to bounce...
Back in 1984—when Stevie Ray Vaughn supplied the biggest bang to the blues since hippies mixed acid...
The name kept coming to me near the end of the summer. Lucia Berlin. Short story writer....
This is the tale—as brief as it takes the evening sun to set in Avalon, Mississippi—about a...
Though I rarely play tapes, this summer I bought four, still-in-the-cellophane cassettes at Bob Koester’s Jazz Record...
I passed through Mississippi twice in early 2005, headed west from Baltimore to Los Angeles in February...
I thought I was pretty cool back in the first grade—1964, white-hot ground zero of global Beatlemania;...
Potatoes as a main dish. Like I already mentioned, Grandaddy was often cooking dinners, but some dishes...
“And my head is my only house unless it rains…” – Don Van Vliet Willie had just lost...
“And now Mama doesn’t seem to wanna do much of anything…”– Bobbie Gentry As Cherry’s cab followed...
“Don’t fall or trip on things, stay away from happenings…”– Nancy Sinatra By the time the hearse...
“The blues will always be around… people need it…” – Johnny Winter Cherry awoke less than...
Flying through the night and deep into the following day on beer and reefer and Charlene’s diet...
“I got womens in Vicksburg, clean on into Tennessee, but my Friar’s Point rider now, she hops...
I usually have to drive through Oxford on my way home from work. I work most counties...
“It’s a kind of jazz-rhythm music peculiar to the American Negro …” – Long John Baldry ...
Cadillacs For Literacy: Chunky Blues Festival 1988 In July of 1988, I put my wife and our...
She slipped her arm around my waist, which represented a certain milestone in our relationship. We hadn’t...
My clocks go crazy at midnights, They crawl down the walls, They are reflecting gloomy lights Of...