Remembering Ron Hicks
I don’t remember the first year my friend Tony invited me up to his house for the Fourth of July.
I know what the plan was. It was the Fourth, it was his mom’s birthday, and we were going to grill out, eat some of his dad’s
Quillbilly
AGAIN
I saw this posted today on Facebook.
And thought it would make a good song, considering the moment.
Wake up, take a shower
See a person get murdered
Scroll past some bullshit
Posted by your mother
Pick up the laundry
Drop off the kids
Figure out where to grab lunch
The End of the Gazette
The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette newspaper, which has been in print for nearly 240 years since it was founded as the Pittsburgh Gazette in July of 1786, just announced it will cease operations in May.
The Post-Gazette was one of the many papers I referenced when I was researching my Texas Jack
The Death of Isaac Cody
On the evening of September 18, 1854, a large group gathered at Major M.P. Rively’s store on Salt Creek, near Leavenworth, Kansas. Four months earlier, Congress had passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act, which repealed the Missouri Compromise and created two new territories, Kansas and Nebraska. The Act also stated
Ball Peen
The liner notes that follow originally accompanied the 1970 single release of “Ball Peen.” Written at the time of recording, they reflect the period’s prevailing habit of saying just enough—and no more—about a song’s meaning, leaving interpretation to the listener and rumor to do the rest.
The Battle for Rattlesnake Springs and the Valor of Sergeant Thomas Boyne
In 1879, the simmering tensions between the Ute people and the U.S. government finally boiled over in northwestern Colorado. At the center of the conflict was Nathan Meeker, an idealistic Indian Agent who believed he could force the Utes to abandon their nomadic culture for farming and fences. When
"I Watched Him Ride Out of Sight"
On October 30, 1912, the Jacksonville Journal ran a small human-interest piece tied to a large piece of news: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West had broken up for the season. As it often did, the great traveling show was dispersing for the winter, its performers and employees scattering across the