Steve Earle was way ahead of his time with his Guitar Town release in the mid 1980’s. Besides the title track, Earle is magnificent on the rest of the album as well. The title of this post is one such account. If you have not heard it yet, go buy it, download it, borrow it or whatever but listen to Guitar Town.

"My Old Friend The Blues" played over and over this Thanksgiving weekend. Here is the situation. I was at my girlfriends family’s house in Colorado. We break up Saturday morning. 650 miles from home. A house full of relatives upstairs. On top of that the room we were staying in (without doors or real walls) had half of a concrete wall filled with red painted heart outlines. Here is the chorus of the song. Pretty much sums it up.

Lovers leave and friends will let you down
But you’re the only sure thing that I’ve found
No matter what I do I’ll never lose
My old friend the blues

If you are reading this I hope you are planning to make it out to Bobby T’s this Saturday December 3rd. We are excited to be opening for the Trevor Burgess Band and it should be a great time. See you there. G

Of all the sad bastard, semi-suicidal songs I have heard lately, nothing matches Brandon Jenkins’ "Finger on the Trigger." He says that he lost his job and the bills are getting bigger. He’s got a baby crying. He has a hundred dollar habbit but not a penny. He can’t keep a job because he is too fucked up and the SRS is about to take his kid away. On top of all that his woman ran’d off with a friend. If you don’t need counseling prior to listening to Jenkins’ CD "Finger on the Trigger," you will afterwards. The title track along with another sad bastard "Down in Flames" are my favorites but "Red Dirt Town" is as solid just not as sad. This a great CD–buy it.

AT and I rolled in about 3 this morning from the Harbour Lights show. It went well and I have to throw a shout out to all the people that came out. I was told that was the busiest Harbour Lights had been in a long time, let alone on a Sunday. Hats off to Suzy, Jill, Jessica, Annie, Jeff, John, Katie, Matt, April, and everyone else that came out for the ATB debut down at the Harbour. Also, thanks goes out to Dusty Feighner for playing the break and helping out on vocals towards the end of the show.

The shows this past week were incredible. Between the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash and the Randy Rogers Band in successive nights, my sleeping pattern was significantly altered. If you missed the shows, go buy their CD’s as the two groups try to keep country alive. This next week features Trevor Burgess and Jared Pete Gile at Longhorns on the tenth. It should be a great time. Hope to see you there. G