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I came outside and found this little guy trying to find sunflower seeds in my empty bird feeder. I was wondering where all of the seeds were going!

When I was a kid, my grandma would make us a special treat every now and then that she called “Chocolate Gravy.” She learned most of her recipes from my great grandmother who traveled across the country in a covered… Continue Reading →

I should point out that this has some language that will most likely get you into trouble at work. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, but I’ll warn ya anyway. Thanks to my buddy Matt in Milwaukee for sending this… Continue Reading →

I was in a car accident after playing a memorial show for Utah Phillips in Chicago last week. It was 1:30 a.m. and I was sitting at a stoplight. I sat there for fifteen seconds or so and BAM! I… Continue Reading →

Billy Bragg was nice enough to give me a shout out in the Wall Street Journal this weekend. I’m not sure that I deserve to be mentioned in the same breath as Bob Dylan, The Clash, Chuck Berry and Sam… Continue Reading →

The good people at the Indianapolis Star (Dave Lindquist)recently did a story about some Indianapolis guitar heroes. One of the people featured in this story is John Byrne. John played steel guitar and electric guitar on “One Day Our whispers.”… Continue Reading →

I’ve become obsessed with reading through the jobs section of craiglist. It’s amazing what employers expect workers to do for so little money. This is a perfect example. After reading the listing I felt compelled to email the guy and… Continue Reading →

Hello friends- File this in the better late than never category. I learned a few things while touring the UK. Blood Pudding is nothing that a Hoosier needs to partake in, Crumpets are everything that this man needs when he… Continue Reading →

i was fortunate enough to be invited to tour with the bottle rockets last fall. we did a stretch of dates in the northeastern united states at the end of last year and then a couple weeks in february through… Continue Reading →

in early spring of this year a friend of ours in austin, texas (laura thomas) asked if i’d be interested in playing at a homeless shelter in austin during south by southwest. we said yes. she asked us to pick… Continue Reading →

war mother. he said that his name is jack marvin and that he is lee marvins cousin. i don’t know if it’s true but i do know that he was the most cantanquerous person i’ve met in quite a while.… Continue Reading →

i had the good fortune of spending all of august in austin. i spent most of my days wandering the countryside with my camera and most of my nights on a barstool. here are some photos of some of the… Continue Reading →

i was sitting on a barstool last week at a bar in bastrop, texas. i was asking some fellas if there were any ghost towns near by and after a short while the conversation finally came around to someone mentioning… Continue Reading →

thanks to everyone who helped make my trip as wonderful as it was. we made a ton of new friends and were treated like long lost family members. the strange looking building on the right is the venue that i… Continue Reading →

“carhenge” alliance, nebraska. we drove a few hundred miles out of the way and risked being late to a gig in omaha just to see carhenge. it was worth every mile. this is easily in my top five favorite roadside… Continue Reading →