In Switzerland they had brotherly love, five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did they produce? The cuckoo clock!
That song has the full extent of my mandolin abilities; I'm not a good mandolin player at all.
I'm now comfortable playing a lot of the old songs, and I've gotten out a lot of the old equipment.
You evil thing, why do you haunt me?
Mr. Greed, why do you have to own everything that you see?
I loved Western Swing and Hank Williams' music, and I now know that it's a 6th tuning that gives you all of those classic licks.
All the really great records or people who made them somehow came from Memphis or Louisiana or somewhere along the Mississippi River. . . And singers like Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters gave me the feeling that they were right there, standing by the river.
Though it is fairly easy to describe what constitutes a bad home, there is no simple definition of a good one. Conformity with the traditional pattern certainly is no guarantee of the happiest results.
Though energy and inspiration diminish, experience grows - the theme of parents and kids, for instance.
Once in a while it can be a bit disconcerting to be so recognisable.
I feel blessed to have been raised a Texan.