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Hey Kids! Comics!

The very first sale I made as a writer was a comic-book script bought by Warren Publications in 1970 for the sum of exactly twenty-five frogskins. It came out in Eerie No. 32, illustrated by the veteran illustrator Jack Sparling and edited by Archie Goodwin,… Read More »Hey Kids! Comics!

May 19th, 2012

“Beaumont Rag,” Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys (for BILLY BYRD and JIM VANCE) “Comes Love,” Cow Bop “The Lord Knows I’m Drinking,” Hank Thompson (for the GLASS LIFTERS) “When You’re Smiling,” Cliff Bruner’s Texas Wanderers “Gone Away,” Bill Anderson w/Oak Ridge Boys “Song of… Read More »May 19th, 2012

May 12th, 2012

1.  “Faded Love,” Bob Wills w/Mel Tillis 2.  “Tiger Rag,” Whit Smith’s Hot Jazz Caravan 3.  “My Adobe Hacienda,” Louise Massey and Her Westerners (for SU DAVIS) 4.  “Swingtown,” Roy Ferguson 5.  “Close up the Honky Tonks,” Buck Owens (for the GLASS LIFTERS) 6.  “Smoke!… Read More »May 12th, 2012

May 5th, 2012

SPECIAL GUEST: SHELBY EICHER 1. “Got A Letter from My Kid Today,” Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys2. “Cow Cow Boogie,” Great Recession Orchestra3. “One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer,” Boys in the Bunkhouse(for the GLASS LIFTERS)4. “Johnson Rag,” John T. Wills and the Sons… Read More »May 5th, 2012

April 28th, 2012

DEDICATED TO MAX BARRETT 1. “San Antonio Rose,” Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys(for BILLY BYRD)2. “Lone Star Swing,” Buck Pizzarelli and the West Texas Tumbleweeds3. “Blues for You, My Love,” Billy Jack Wills’ Western Swing Band4. “Beer Bottle Mama,” Andy Reynolds and the 101… Read More »April 28th, 2012

BREAKING BOOK NEWS . . .

  While work on my new-look website continues – thanks to Jungle Jonathan Wooley, the hardest-working webmaster in the business – I have to take just a few paragraphs here to let you know that March 2011 has just become the biggest month ever for… Read More »BREAKING BOOK NEWS . . .

First Quarter ’09 Update

I’m guessing that Thomas Hardy, the 19th Century British literary figure, never met Thomas Duncan, the famed vocalist with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys, despite the fact that they both had something to say about how, you know, things become different as time wears… Read More »First Quarter ’09 Update