Forget walking along the River Seine at twilight. There’s something about eating french fries in your truck in the moonlight at a San Berdoo truckstop, your beautiful, passionate, and barely legal girlfriend at your side, a little smudge of ketchup … Continue reading
There was a time, in that lost era of my early manhood, when I judged life to be essentially a balancing act between work (writing and music) and love — or, more properly, romance. In an earlier post, I wrote … Continue reading
Maybe they weren’t Orpheus and Eurydice or Romeo and Juliet… but, for me, one of the great tragic love affairs has always been Barney and Thelma Lou. When I was a kid, I could never figure out how the ultimate … Continue reading
This is probably one of, if not the, shortest songs that will be featured in AYoS. A simple quatrain, it has defied all my attempts to draw it out or elaborate on its wispy hint of a premise. It grew, … Continue reading
This gruel is about as thin as it gets. Inspired, for a moment, by the superfluity of meaningful lyrics to a good blues song, I threw these sketchy lines across some appropriately minor blues changes and, for a while, it … Continue reading
