Tag Archives: Waylon Jennings

Reviews of Satan Is Real, a new interview, Cormac McCarthy, Waylon Jennings, and Bob Dylan, Pike in French, details for Noir at the Bar, Dove Season, Frank Sinatra in a Blender

by Ben Posted on January 29, 2012

So, news. Well, I’m still busier’n hell. Satan Is Real continues to get really nice reviews. Including one from my favorite newspaper, The Onion, and this really perceptive piece from novelist Jake Hinkson. And there’s a great review from my … Continue reading →

Posted in Books, Guns, Miscellany | Tagged 1911, Bob Dylan, Charlie Louvin, Cormac McCarthy, Craig Johnson, Ed Abbey, Jake Hinkson, Jason Makanski, Jedidiah Ayres, Johnny Shaw, Larry McMurtry, Matthew McBride, Otis Ryan, Pike, Robert Randisi, Satan Is Real, Sonia Coney, Tim O'Brien, Tom Robbins, Waylon Jennings | 7 Comments

Willie Nelson’s 4th of July picnic, 1974

by Ben Posted on May 12, 2011

So I was surfing YouTube looking for a version of the Billy Joe Shaver song “Willy the Wandering Gypsy and Me” as sung by Waylon Jennings that I’d come across before. And, after finding it, I noticed that it was … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellany | Tagged Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson | 1 Comment

Johnny Lobo

by Ben Posted on November 18, 2010

This is something that weirds me out a little bit, but Kris Kristofferson, Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, and Willie Nelson singing about John Trudell: For better or worse, all my favorite protest songs are country songs. Most of ‘em are … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellany | Tagged John Trudell, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson | 6 Comments

Happy anniversary, judge

by Ben Posted on November 9, 2010

As a friend reminded me on Facebook, today is the 25th anniversary of Blood Meridian. If you haven’t read it, there’s nothing I’d probably recommend more. It’s been one of my guideposts since I first discovered it, about twenty years … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged Cormac McCarthy, Pike, Waylon Jennings | 2 Comments

Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me

by Ben Posted on April 30, 2010

I thought I’d posted this once upon a time, but I guess not. It’s Waylon Jennings playing “Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me” at one of Willie Nelson’s Fourth of July Picnics, sometime in the early 1970s. The song was … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged Billy Joe Shaver, Cormac McCarthy, Waylon Jennings | 2 Comments

Everything you need to know about Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson

by Ben Posted on August 25, 2009

Posted in Miscellany | Tagged Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson | 3 Comments

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy

by Ben Posted on June 17, 2009

One of the smartest comments ever made about Cormac McCarthy, by Harold Bloom in a discussion about Blood Meridian (via Maud Newton): “He tends to carry his influences on the surface, quite honestly.” That’s about the long and the short … Continue reading →

Posted in Books | Tagged Cormac McCarthy, Harold Bloom, Herman Melville, Kris Kristofferson, Michael Kerr, Waylon Jennings, William Faulkner | 2 Comments

I am goodbye

by Ben Posted on June 4, 2009

I’ve been listening to Bonnie Prince Billy’s Beware! pretty much nonstop for about a week. I probably ain’t getting most of it, but it reads to me like a playful meditation on one of the most hoary of country music … Continue reading →

Posted in Miscellany | Tagged Billy Joe Shaver, Bonnie Prince Billy, Waylon Jennings, Will Oldham | Leave a comment

The best of all possible worlds

by Ben Posted on May 7, 2009

Posted in Miscellany | Tagged Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: Waylon Jennings

Reviews of Satan Is Real, a new interview, Cormac McCarthy, Waylon Jennings, and Bob Dylan, Pike in French, details for Noir at the Bar, Dove Season, Frank Sinatra in a Blender

Willie Nelson’s 4th of July picnic, 1974

Johnny Lobo

Happy anniversary, judge

Willie the Wandering Gypsy and Me

Everything you need to know about Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson

Harold Bloom on Cormac McCarthy

I am goodbye

The best of all possible worlds

Satan is Real

Pike

Send My Love and a Molotov Cocktail!

Twitter

Books

Guns

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