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Last Chance Texaco (opens the original)
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The year was 1979. Apart from Elvis Costello and the first Police album, I can’t think of any record my songwriting buddy, Steve Holsapple, and I listened to more than Rickie Lee Jones debut. The whole album is brilliant, but I always loved the song, “Last Chance Texaco.” The song on it’s own meant plenty. But the fact that my maternal grandfather, Marvin General Williamson had spent most of his vocational life driving a truck for Texaco brought it all home. It’s your last chance to check under
The Last 48 Hours (opens the original)
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Write Your Way Into the Answers (opens the original)
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Reading an excerpt from Once Concealed Now RevealedMake Your Kickstarter Pledge TodayLeave a commentMy parents raised me for fourteen years. No more, no less.Then writer/poet Jack Kerouac took over.When I retrace m
We Tore It Up! (opens the original)
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The Passion and the Purpose (opens the original)
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Since Wendell Berry will be on our minds afresh today and in the days to come, it makes sense to morph right into what I had planned for today. It is all part of one integrated whole (a very Wendell idea if there ever was one).If you are not yet an admirer, an acolyte, then this post may help you understand Mr. Berry’s appeal. It may also, in some way, small or large, explain me. More specifically, my deepest cares and commitments as a family member, a citizen, an artist, and one ever hesitant t
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