Today’s writing groove. Didn’t need reading glasses first time around. Met Martin at Racy’s. Fellow Neil D fan.

Recent Ray Wylie Hubbard discussion about the state of country music got me to thinking about something I wrote in Truck: A Love Story (Full disclosure: I once did a story…View post

Made dumb flatfoot man jokes while daughters watched figure skating but as a result I am now gullet-deep into Chopin’s Nocturnes. Yearning like sixty.

Fairly open secret by now, but for the sake of paperback tour trivia: the song I mention on page 300 of Visiting Tom (the one my friend let me listen to in…View post

Dan Huiting (same guy who shot the cannon video for Visiting Tom) did this mini-documentary about the making of the next Blind Boys of Alabama album. It was recorded last winter…View post