Jerry Jeff Walker died one year ago.
Todd Snider tribute here. Two hours, five minutes long -- extemporaneous -- done on "the spur of the moment," late evening, around midnight (?), a year ago, the day Jerry Jeff Walker died.
Key West:
When Jerry Jeff Walker decided that Austin, Texas, was where Jerry Jeff Walker was from, he left behind this thing he was doing in Key West.
In Key West, a little bit after midnight, everyone starts telling you they know Jimmy Buffett, but a little after 3:00 a.m. they will tell you they know Jerry Jeff Walker.
Jerry Jeff Walker had gone down there ... his best friend at the time, Jimmy Buffett who was then dropped ... or just burned out .. JJW sent JB down to Key West and the rest is history.
JJW drove JB to Key West in an old Packard.
I've never been to Key West but it holds for me quite a fascination: Jimmy Buffett, Ernest Hemingway, Donald Trump (up the coast), and then the above.
The tribute to Townes Van Zandt "connects" a lot of these folks, like Guy Clark, Susan Clark, Willie Nelson, Emmylou Harris, Nancy Griffith. When one looks at the map of Key West it reminds me of Provincetown, MA, and to some extent, San Pedro, CA. In all three cases, they are all destinations; one does not drive "through" any of them. When you reach any of the three, you've come to the end of the line.
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The market: if it weren't for a few stories like SNAP and INTC, this market would be flying high today. Watching the crawler is incredible.
Apple: Amazon has already lowered the price of one of Apple's brand new MacBook Pros. Amazon is selling the $1,999-14"-MacBook Pro for $1,945. Expercom has a similar sale, but Amazon has a bigger reach. Amazing.
Quarter moon in a ten-cent town. Painting for the EmmyLou Harris album is by Susanna Clark. She also did the cover for Willie Nelson's Stardust album. Dies at age 73, July 5, 2012.
Anti-vaxxer poster favorite sons: baton passed from Utah to Boston.
Speaking of Boston, need a song: the story takes place in San Francisco but for me it's my "Boston story":
Chapin was one of my favs for gritty life story telling songs. Cats in the Cradle was a snapshot of my own Dad and I (when I was a teenager) and I promised myself our lives and the relationships with my kids would not same ending as the song. So far so good.
ReplyDeleteCat's in the Cradle .... a very, very tough song.
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