“Are You Depressed?”

So, my parents and my nephews are in town. At one point yesterday, the dog was barking non-stop to be let out of the house (which she could not be until the trailer was put up) and my parents were yelling at each other and the nephews were squabbling and hitting each other with sticks [...]

Meeting Jimmie Rodgers and Barry Mazor

I finally finished Barry Mazor’s book, Meeting Jimmie Rodgers: How America’s Original Roots Music Hero Changed the Pop Sounds of a Century. This book is pretty amazing, because you finish it and you think, “Well, yeah, duh, of course this is a great way to talk about music and an artist.”  In other words, once [...]