Dear Friends,
Blogs are about life. I live in Austin. They say Austin is full of famous musicians. They’re right.
Even though I had once been a musician and a nightlife writer, I wasn’t thinking about music when I moved to Austin. I was thinking about claustrophobia. After ten years on three acres in a mountain town, [...]
Nothing has come of my vow to stop writing about the Allman Brothers, whom I referenced in a recent newsletter. At least half my readers couldn’t care less bout these Georgia longhairs. Some are so young they haven’t yet had a chance to listen to their grandparents’ LPs. Some are so old they can sit [...]
Too many singer-songwriters. Too many love-you/hate-you songs. Good subject; insipid lyrics. A song of love or loss should sneak up on you, clobbering your emotions as you unload the dishwasher. Make you cry big tears into the cake mix. (Maybe while laughing!) Make you think how true the song is, and how somehow no one ever said this truth [...]
