| Influences | slants of light, half-heard conversations, broken sidewalks, twisted tree trunks, faded photographs, sweat on a beer bottle, rusted cars, hubcaps, road signs, fallen feathers, stories told late at night, ice in an empty whiskey glass, dashboard light, old radios, barns, fields, hills, open space, desire, worn out playing cards, faces, hands, shoes, Charles Bukowski, McKinley Morganfield, Chester Burnett, Peter Case, Tom Waits, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, Greg Brown, Lightning Hopkins and damn near everything else. |