Two-lane highways and pickup trucks. Running water and the mountains it comes from. Smart writers and plugged-in guitars. Baseball on AM radio. Golf, usually played poorly. Stories...always stories.
I've met you all. I'd just like to see you now and again.
Jon Dee Graham. Joe West. Boris and the Saltlicks. Hundred Year Flood. Jon Prine. Bob Dylan. The Flatlanders. Townes Van Zandt. The Resentments and the Replacements. Husker Du. Soul Asylum. Run Westy Run. Pogues. Clash. Eliza Gilkyson. James McMurtry. Goshen. Bruce Springsteen. Troy Campbell. Ray Wylie Hubbard. Patty Griffin. Shawn Colvin. John Cash. Roseann Cash. The Sex Pistols. Violent Femmes. Neil Young. Joe Henry. Bob Schneider. Lucinda Williams. More Jon Dee Graham. Even more Jon Dee Graham after that.
The Unforgiven. Brokeback Mountain. Dog Day Afternoon. Scarecrow. Five Easy Pieces. Chinatown. The Last Picture Show. To Kill a Mockingbird. Tender Mercies.
Deadwood. Six Feet Under. The Simpsons.
For Whom the Bell Tolls. Catcher in the Rye. Grapes of Wrath. To Kill a Mockingbird. Look Homeward Angel.
My wife. My mother. My cousin. Many of the sober. A few of the drunks. More than one of the dead.