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June 28, 2010
Frankie and Oprah
I met Frankie Staton years ago while writing a piece on black artists in country music. Now she's auditioning for an Oprah project at this link. I like Frankie's idea of an old married couple sitting down with a young married couple. I'd volunteer for that.
June 26, 2010
Just Local Road Signs
I'm back home. I can hear the rooster crowing even as I type this. So good to see my wife. Her blue-eyed smile. Have just had a great morning in the office with my girls. They drew and cut up scrap paper while I unpacked the accumulations of the road. Also took a walk out the lane with the young one on my shoulders to check the corn…I got half of it cultivated before I left. The cultivated half is thriving. The uncultivated half is pale green and stunted, but I believe it still has a ...
June 25, 2010
Coop Paperback Tour, Post #9 (Final)
I have been blogging the book tour for Shelf Awareness, a daily bookselling newsletter.
In today's post: I meet my fairy godmother, and then I go home.
June 24, 2010
Coop Paperback Tour, Post #8
I'm blogging about book tour for Shelf Awareness, a daily bookselling newsletter.
In report #8: Can you spell Leinenkugel's?
June 23, 2010
Working for John Prine
Every since I was introduced to his music on a cassette in a boombox played by my friend Gene in a basement while playing darts (follow that?), John Prine has been a leading literary influence (yep, literary – musical of course, but primarily literary) on my writing.
Yesterday, Oh Boy Records released "Broken Hearts & Dirty Windows," a tribute album on which a wide array of artists honor Prine by covering his songs. The first song on the album is "Bruised Orange (Chain of Sorrow)" covered by ...
June 22, 2010
Coop Paperback Tour, Post #7
I'm blogging about book tour for Shelf Awareness, a daily bookselling newsletter.
In report #7: Songwriting in a coffee cellar.
Miscellaneous Grumpy Note Written in a Coffee Shop
Seriously, bud? Your taste in jazz is so exquisite that you have to turn your computer speakers up and set them in tinny competition with the coffee shop sound system, currently playing Blind Boys of Alabama? Sometimes I wish I wasn't such a polite Midwestern boy. (Delightfully, he was caught out when – apparently forgetting that his player was set to "mix" – the jazz song came to a close and was followed heels-on by the opening riff of AC/DC's "Hell's Bells." Dude nearly broke his wrist f...
June 21, 2010
Coop Paperback Tour, Post #6
I'm blogging about book tour for Shelf Awareness, a daily bookselling newsletter.
In report #6: Finally, some clean socks.
June 20, 2010
Tiny Pilot Lyrics Added
Little while back I finally entered the lyrics for most of the songs on Tiny Pilot (excepting the hidden track available only on the CD version). They're here. Of course the label master would want me to tell you that the poster/lyric sheet insert included with the actual CD also includes full-color photos of the recording session (including humorous captions) and little notes giving the background of each song.
