My hands are dirty, but my soul is clean.
Living right and being free, spending time with my family, playing old time music till daybreak, rock n roll shows, getting to the country and out of the city for good, purty Southern women, learning, my '84 diesel Benz Rattler, religious existentialism, libertarianism, truth, the Golden Rule, bad jokes, bonfires, George Dickel white or Jamison or Johnnie Walker red on ice w/ lemon, old buildings, old recordings, old instruments, legal secession, taking the high road, taking the back road, woodworking, self sufficiency, hot weather, the University of Alabama Crimson Tide, hot coffee, balance, the Southern language, cooking good food, chuff, homemade whisky/wine, arguing logically, seeing all sides to the story, renewable energy, justice, the Tennessee Titans, the MLB playoffs, good country people, the World Cup, driving, recording music, cigarettes, good singing, good songwriting, good musicianship and really bad musicianship, good photography, bad and good films, biographies, white Russians, the War Between the States, bouncing back, satisfying people that satisfy against me, storytelling, historical preservation, leading by example, embracing loss and pain like I embrace joy and prosperity, folk music from around the world, community standards, credible unbiased media sources, men and women in the US Armed Services, recycling, removing hundreds of senseless laws and taxes, third party awareness, doing it, cold beer, meat and three and sweet tea, the Gulf of Mexico, Appalachia, bass fishing, learning to build fiddles and banjos
"The Nature Boy" Ric Flair
Ric Flair - Custom Made
I listen to and play lots. Played shows and/or recorded with the likes of:
The Rutherford County Stumblers (2000-?) - fiddle, banjo, vocals, guitar, mandolin, founding member, lots of shows, parties and recordings, Old Timey Stringband EP
Das Chiggers (2000) - banjo, guitar, mandolin, vocals, founding member, one EP
Porter Hall Tennessee (2000 - 2002) - mandolin, harmonies, lots of shows, one EP, Welcome to Porter Hall Tennessee CD, one track on All Sinners Welcome Here CD
The Dirty Sox (2006) - a name we use for the Stumblers when we are missing a few people
The Branded Sons (2005-?) - played fiddle on a demo, but I am really just very close to these guys and I lived with'em for a while. I hope that my support may have helped them in some way. They are recording their new album and I might sneak on it
Cooter Lube (2007-?) - fiddle, mandolin, we are still recording...so probably some other stuff too.
Creech Holler (2006) - fiddle and background vocals on With Signs Following CD, played a tune with'em at Grand Palace
Justin Earle and the Million Dollar Fiddles (2005) - fiddle, one special edition show/party
SJ & the Props (2007) - fiddle, mandolin, on newest record...release TBA
Sly and the Sunsetters (2007) - this is a studio project I threw together to do some instrumental songs I wrote. Features Me, Laws and Dwayne Rushing from The Branded Sons, Craig Bond from the Non-Commissioned Officers, we only cut two songs, but I might do some more later
The Rummies (2007-?) - this is an idea that is manifesting itself right now, basically a punk cover band
Some stuff I really like...
Motorhead Girlschool
please dont touch
Jimmy Martin Jimmy Martin Tribute
Richard and Linda Thompson
Steely Dan: My Old School
Black Diamond Heavies at the Basement - Nina Simone tune
Creedence Clearwater Revival
The Pogues
Waylon Jennings
The Ramones
Roscoe Holcomb
Dewey Balfa and friends
Townes Van Zandt
Big Star
Thin Lizzy
Chris Isaak covering Roy Orbison
Willie Nelson, Ray Charles and Leon Russell
Black Sabbath
The Minutemen
Dwight Yoakam
Humble Pie
Almost any documentary, live concerts, Coen Brothers, Eastwood, Caddyshack, Will Ferrell, Wes Anderson, War, History, Thunder Road, Cool Hand Luke, Biographies, Documentaries, Sandler, old school horror, Bonnie & Clyde, Nicholson, Hackman, Payday, the Godfather, Slingblade, the Phenix City Story, the Graduate, Vince Vaughn, Christopher Walken, James Bond (Connery and Moore)
SEC/University of Alabama Football
The Office (BBC)
Dog the Bounty Hunter
Arrested Development
Bill Dance fishing bloopers
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the Bible, about the South, the War of Northern Aggression, Biographies about historical figures and musicians, Foxfire series...