Railroads--past and present. DVDs, books, videos and watching the real thing.Western outlaws and lawmen.The War Between the States.The Sinking of the Titanic.Living in the South and the Southwest.Desert wildlife--especially Roadrunners and Rattlesnakes.
Swing, rockabilly, traditional jazz, western swing, blues musicians. Railfans. Old West buffs. Herpetologists.
Five of my favorite jazzmen: Pee Wee Russell, Lester Young, Jess Stacy, Frank Teschemacher and Bix Beiderbecke.Favorite vocalists include Nina Ferro, Rebecca Kilgore, Nena Anderson, Banu Gibson.Chicago, New Orleans Jazz; Jazz and Ragtime Piano; Western Swing (esp. Bob Wills); Rockabilly (Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Carl Perkins, Billy Lee Riley); Early Rock (Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Collins Kids, Wanda Jackson); Blues.Drummers: Sid Catlett, Jo Jones, Dave Tough, Zutty Singleton, Vic Berton, Ray Bauduc, Ben Pollack, Nick Fatool, Jimmie Bertrand, Harry Dial, Kaiser Marshall, Walter Johnson, Johnny Wells, Gene Krupa, Minor Hall, Fred Higuera and many more!
Tombstone; The Outlaw Josey Wales; The Wild Bunch; The Professionals; Big Jake; The Magnificent Seven; The Long Riders; The Last Hard Men; Whispering Smith; Union Pacific; Alcatraz Express; Elmer Gantry; Walk the Line; anything with Wallace and Gromit.
Most Shocking; Cops; Geico ads!
Lone Star Lawmen: The Second Century of the Texas Rangers (Robert M. Utley); Sabine Pass: The Confederacy's Thermopylae (Edward T. Cotham Jr.).
Railroad engineer John Luther "Casey" Jones.William Barret Travis, James Bowie, David Crockett.The Texas Rangers.Lt. Richard Dowling (Battle of Sabine Pass).Maj. Gen. Richard Taylor (Battle of Mansfield).