Interests? Enjoying my life. Enjoying good music. Tolerating bad music. Observing people in an amateurish sociological sort of way. Meeting good people. Tolerating bad people. Reading, watching the NFL and rooting for the Packers. Travel, coffee, sleep. Our Dogs. All dogs. I’m a Dog From Every Town, by the way. Playing guitar. Fixing guitars. Making guitars play and feel good. Guitars make me feel good too. Life works like that. Talking about politics and religion, what is wrong with both, and what to do about it.
Music
I dig real Country Music, Bakersfield Twang, Hillbilly, Bluegrass, Jazz from the 40's through the 60's, Blues, Swing, Western Swing, R & B, Cajun, Zydeco, any music that has a good groove and a discernible melody and shows some taste.
Movies
Lots of movies I'd watch repeatedly I guess. Sling Blade, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, pretty much any of the Coen Brother movies are good for multiple viewings. Back To The Future, The Shawshank Redemption, movies adapted from John Irving novels - Garp, Hotel New Hampshire, Cider House Rules, Door In The Floor - old classics like Bogart/Bacall stuff, westerns and war movies I saw as a kid - all the John Wayne stuff. I'm pretty eclectic on movies. I also like some artsy stuff, like Run Lola Run, movies like that. I like thrillers, suspense, drama, but not horror, or sci-fi or any of the modern stupid comic stuff. Not a fan of mean humor or dumb stuff. Dumb is dumb, and mean is just mean. I can do better than that...
Television
I try not to get caught up in watching too much TV . The older I get, the more depressing TV becomes. TV is like a window into our cultural psyche and it's painful to see what we're becoming as a culture. It perpetuates a feeling of helplessness and causes anxiety, and I say 'no thanks' to that.
Books
Shelves full of them. Stacks and piles and boxes filled with books. John Irving novels (most all of them), James Michener mini-epics, Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (and I happen to know a real life Ignatius, lucky me), When Pride Still Mattered by David Maraniss, Roy Buchanan American Axe by Phil Carson, Skydog the Duane Allman Story by Randy Poe, The World of Mike Royko by Doug Moe, Sing Your Heart Out Country Boy, by Dorothy Horstman, Steinbecks Grapes of Wrath and Sinclair's The Jungle, read most of Ayn Rand....
Heroes
My Dad and Mom, Karen, my son and my daughter. I admire, respect and learn from them daily.
Guitarist in Austin Texas, keeping busy working with a few different singers and bands such as Cornell Hurd, The Can't Hardly Playboys, Billy Dee, Miss Beverly Jean and the Bluebillies, The Beverly Brothers and various and sundry other artists over the years including Johnny Bush, Johnny Rodriguez, Hank Thompson, Dotsy, and others. Life is good and I am grateful for all I have.
About me? Like every other human, I'm just a flash in eternity. I'm here for a relatively few short years on earth, and I'm trying not to waste too much time being negative or hurtful. My life is in music, and I use the guitar as my medium. If I could go back and start over on an instrument, I might choose to use the piano, or saxophone. The guitar is the peoples medium. It seems everyone plays guitar. I'm just another one. I play some styles very well, I stink at others. That holds true for lots of things in my life. Some things I've learned pretty well, some I just can't get. I'd like to think I'm still growing and evolving as a person. I am married to my very best friend in the world. She makes me so delightfully mad every day. She also plays bass and I really dig gigging with her, because I can look across the stage at her and she will make a face at me and almost make me lose my place. Plus, if she's on the bass, I know I can trust that the right changes will be under my guitar playing, and that is always a great thing for a guitar player to feel. People tell me I'm hard to get to know, but believe me it's worth it.
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Who I'd like to meet: Lots of people I'd like to meet, most of them are no longer among us. Hank Williams, Barney Kessel, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, Will Rogers, FDR, Charlie Christian, Eldon Shamblin....
Hey jim, good to hear from you yeah things are good, I've been playing at Tootsies orchid lounge a bunch, met lots of good folk. Hope all is well with you and the granger gang
Thanks Jim, I'm looking forward to it as well. I'm going to make it out on a Thursday after SXSW to catch up. I wish I could get a recording of that gig I did at Jovita's. See you soon!
I haven't heard that one, all I have of his is Idle Moments and he does a CD with my new favorite saxophone player, Ike Quebec. That is a good CD, they've got Paul Chambers and Philly Joe Jones on there. What album is Grant Green's blues on?
Come to Thailand and cook for me. Hey! I use your Myspace site for a radio sometimes. Ha ha ha. It costs me nothing and you can not do a durn thing about it!!!!! Go ahead and shake your girly fist at the heavens and bellow. Why should I care?
So! You have my son. He is my son. Do not forget it. Don't even contemplate turning him into a Texan or making him play that Cowboy Jazz. That music is the devil! He is a virtuous and sensible boy. Do not tamper with that. Fry him a lot of good food and don’t let him find out about girls. You can have him until November. Then put him on the airplane and send him back to civilization. You took my high school sweetheart but you can't take my son toooooooo! As I write this I'm shaking my potent, masculine, fist in your general direction. I think. I also have a very forbidding look on my face.
hi there!!how are ya? i am doing great, unfortantly i start school next week. bye the way the GPA for summer school was a 3.0....i have now idea how that happened..almost done with half the school
I can't speak for the pretty girl singer but I'm hungry to visit you guys sometime soon. It's been too long. On August 29th my service is up for AmeriCorps and I'll be a free man. Maybe it's time I start thinking about buying some cowboy boots?
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