Water in the Creek!

Whew!  I’ve been busy, thanks to you guys.  I bought a rake.  I filled my compost pile half way.  I had the Butcher take out the scrub pines and in their place, we threw down a few stepping stones so now, hopefully, people will stop tromping across my peonies.

Clearly, they need to be straightened out [...]

All Things in Popular Music DO Lead to The Band!

So, Vesta44 asks if the Hawkins singing Susie-Q is Hawkshaw Hawkins.  It is not.  Hawkshaw, for those of you who may remember, died alongside Patsy Cline.  I believe he had a couple of hits and was from West Virginia.
Our Hawkins is Dale Hawkins, who was from Louisiana.  How does that lead us to The Band?
Dale [...]

Excitement in Greenbrier, Sr.

Man tries to punch mayor.  Yeah, on Tuesday.  No, I don’t know why any of the locals didn’t immediately try to alert us.
Poor Greenbrier, Jr. probably doesn’t even have a mayor to try to punch.

Our Encounter with a Public Servant

We were waited on by Sharon Barksdale.
“You ever see The Wire?”
“Folks ask me that all the time.”
“It’s good.”
“Yeah, I like it.  People are always asking me if I’m related.”
“Don’t you just want to be like ‘It’s a tv show.  It’s not real.’?”
“No way.  Since that show came on the air, I’m the one person here [...]

I Just Woke Up, but I’m Feeling Good

My feel good Friday is complicated a little by the douchiness of some record company somewhere, but what can you do?  I’ll just say up front that I prefer the CCR version of this song, but the cymbal in Hawkin’s version is so amazing that it’s almost a song all by itself.
So here’s the video, [...]