Kort | December 21, 2007
My buddy and drummer Tom Larson arrived last night after missing his flight from Nashville. He made it, but his drums, which were supposed to arrive yesterday, didn’t. Thinking we would somehow make do with what instruments we had packed in the trailer, we start to leave for Wyoming. As I back out the driveway [...]
Kort | December 14, 2007
I am in the middle of reading Neil Young´s biography. I have a hard time putting it down, not because it´s so good necessarily, but because it´s so interesting. Neil, in his life and in his music, seems to be both touchingly vulnerable and terrifyingly controlling. It´s all part of his mystique, I guess, though [...]
Kort | December 7, 2007
People keep asking me if the ´Free Mullet Removal´ sign referred to in an earlier journal entry was real. Yes! Mullets are not to be taken lightly in the south. It´s serious business…but, not ALL business. Hence the name ´Business in the front, party in the back´! My wife thinks my hair is a ´Party [...]
Kort | December 2, 2007
My friend and co-writing buddy, Kevin DeForrest, turned 50 yesterday. That means he was born in 1957….when The Everly Brothers, Jimmie Rodgers, Buddy Holly, and Elvis were on the top of the music charts. It was also the year of some very cool classic American cars. I read about a brand new 1957 Plymouth Belvedere [...]
