[In the fall of 2013 I led two parts of a five Sunday Sunday School sequence at All Saints Episcopal Church in Atlanta. The theme of the talks was “Twilight: Our Complicated Relationship with Darkness.” The talks were a precursor to a visit from Barbara Brown Taylor who was about to have her book, Learning to Walk in the Dark hit the […]
Found: The Right Guitar Shop in Atlanta
I love guitar shops, and over the years I have dropped significant cash in them. Guitar Works in Richmond, VA, Barr’s Fiddle Shop in Galax, VA, McIntyre Guitars in Charlotte, NC (now defunct, I think, as Doug McIntyre it seems is focused purely on selling acoustic instrument pickups these days), The Bluegrass Center (defunct now as […]
Bringing The Guitars Along
I have two guitars that have been following me around for the last few years. They have had to follow me from Asheville to Cleveland to Atlanta. They are patient, shut up in their cases. So cool leaning against the wall like cowboys, they have been hanging out in the guest bedroom waiting for me […]
Goodbye Doc Watson: Feeling the “Deep River Blues”
[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyQOCJ4SUSk&w=420&h=315]It is a short list of voices and sounds really—the ones who have stuck with me, the ones I can trace back to my teens. John Prine, Neil Young, Bob Dylan, John Starling, John Duffey, and Doc Watson. Today Doc passed. It was a better world with him in it.I first saw him in […]