Thanks to our old friend Barry Seymour for sending along the cool clip posted in the top piece.  Nice to have friends to call up when one gets stir crazy and want to make music . . .

  After reading Cormac O’Brien’s book, Secret Lives of the U.S. Presidents – What your teachers never told you about the men of the White House (Quirk Books – 2009), I thought it mig…

       Being an election year, the above title will give some the wrong idea right off the bat.  While I have my political opinions, it has been a cardinal rule of mine to not spend time tr…

We have entered the ‘July hiatus’ – meaning I may finally get through all the junk that got stashed in the studio when I retired on July 1, 2018.  I have actually made great progres…

   Some musicians wear hats and I never gave it much thought until I saw Dwight Yoakum in the movie Sling Blade (1996).  As a disciple of the Bakersfield Sound, I always assumed Yoakum’s ever pr…

       Growing up only two blocks north of the tennis courts located at the Marquette Senior High building gave me plenty of opportunities to play tennis.  There were four more courts betwe…