Sitting at my patio table with espresso roast coffee reminiscing about Jeff Dahl’s Desert Trash Blast on November 15, 1997 at Nita’s Hideaway. The Golden Arms. Trash Brats. Kevin K Band. Jeff Dahl. US Bombs. 

Buckshot George makes a pot of cowboy beans with Distillery Dogs drummer Dead End Dave Wathen. While the beans simmer, they swap band stories, talk about and debate whether going on tour would be a great adventure or a terrible…

I decided to record another podcast.

This time I sat around the fire with my girlfriend, Nikki. We cooked potatoes and onions in a cast-iron skillet and turned on the recorder.

At some point I accidentally turned off the recorder…

I finally did it. I recorded a podcast.

For the first episode, I figured I’d start with the obvious question: Who the hell is Buckshot George?

I talk about where the name came from, some of the bands and people…

Busking is an antidepressant for me.

I saw my first busker in the French Quarter of New Orleans in the summer of 1987. He was shirtless and long-haired, sweating under a fancy Western hat. He was singing some song about…

I used to think playing for old folks meant I had to tone it down.

I’ve played gigs for older crowds where I was asked to turn it down, dress a little more conservatively, and lose some of the rock…

We met him at the Hampton Inn on a rainy Saturday in July.

Kevin “Hotwheels” McGregor. Frontman of The Earps in Phoenix, Arizona. In town on a business trip for his day job.

He came out the back entrance, running…

Last Friday’s singing telegram gig was rough.

The air conditioning went out in my car, which is not ideal in August. I drove to Harrodsburg with the windows down and a birthday balloon bouncing around inside the car.

Somewhere along…