Title page … Why the title, Hellhound?

As the myth goes, legendary Mississippi Delta Blues guitarist Robert Johnson was a mediocre performer until, one midnight, he sold his soul to the Devil at a crossroads said to be the intersection of Highways 49 and 61 in Clarksdale.

At its most fundamental level, the myth is about choices.

Rarely do those decisions involve bartering our souls. But consciously — or unconsciously — we all find ourselves at times in our lives where we must make major choices. not always realizing that failing to make a choice is a choice of its own.

We sometimes look back at choices we have made … wondering if we could have done better, wondering how our lives and those around us might have changed if we had made another choice.

In addition to soul-selling, there are thousands upon thousandy of quietly unrecognized, un-agonized choices determined by upbringing, experience, education as well as genetics, illness and injuries that solidify into a solid reality of where we find ourselves. Much of Hellhound reflects my own look back.