Doug Sahm, Bob Dylan, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Steve Earle, Wilco, Son Volt, Bob Wills and The Texas Playboys, Johnny Cash, The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Toni Price, Buddy Miller, Edie Brickell and New Bohemians, Neil Young, Los Lobos, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris, Dave Alvin, Chris Gaffney, Marvin Gaye, Stevie Wonder, Fleetwood Mac, The Band, Badfinger, Jim Lauderdale, Leon Russell, Traffic, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Love, Commander Cody, The Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, Brian Wilson, Beck, Luna, Slobberbone, Cornell Hurd Band, Uncle Tupelo, Lucinda Williams, Sorta, Junior Brown, Jimmie Vaughn, Shaver, Ruthie Foster, Joe Ely, Lucky Pierres, Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez, Ed Burleson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Jeff Klein, Jeff Black, Jesse Winchester, Eleven Hundred Springs, Buck Owens, John Prine, Johnny Bush, Fred Eaglesmith, Patty Griffin, Tom Russell, Salim Nourallah, Split-Lip Rayfield, Marcia Ball, Freda and the Firedogs, Steve Poltz, John Hiatt, Vic Chesnutt, The Volares, Jack Johnson, The Flatlanders, Los Lonely Boys, Rufus Wainwright, Jackson Browne, George Jones, Merle Haggard, Li'l Cap'n Travis, The Amazing Rhythm Aces, Tim Easton, Jon Dee Graham, Bruce Robison, Guy Clark, Nancy Moore, Mindy Smith, Terri Hendrix, Jollie Holland, Terry Allen, Thad Cockrell, Wayne Hancock, Boys Named Sue, Thrift Store Cowboys, Bill Kirchen, Rhett Miller, Pete Anderson, The Jayhawks, Polyphonic Spree, Ray Wylie Hubbard, Bob Schneider, The Sadies, Robbie Fulks, Webb Pierce, Shelby Lynne, Golden Smog, Josh Rouse, Alicia Keys, Slaid Cleves, Paul Thorn, JJ Cale, Bright Eyes, James McMurtry, Moot Davis, Jay Farrar, Lyle Lovett, Robert Earl Keen, Los Straightjackets, Deadman, Tres Chicas, Stephen Stills, Billy Bragg, Little Feat, we could keep going on and on and on...
Movies
The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover.
also: Sideways, Swept Away (the Lina Wertmueller one, of course), The Man Who Would Be King (yes!), One From The Heart (try it, you'll like it.), anything with Brando, Newman, Pacino, DeNiro, Nicholson or Bill Murray, anything by Scorcese, Coppola, Altman, Kubrick or Woody Allen... and, of course, Citizen Kane
Television
NO Burger. NO Fries. NO TV.
Books
Bowl of Red by Frank Tolbert, Lee Bailey's Southern Food, Prudhomme's Louisiana Kitchen, The Balthazar Cookbook (gift from Daddy Jack), The Amazing Afterlife of Zimmerman Fees - A Metaphysical Story and Cookbook by Kimmie Rhodes
Heroes
stand at attention, for this one:
Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Doug Sahm
and Patti Smith...
oh, and Benicio Del Toro. Really.
