Musings

Getting shirts ready for the tour! Everything in the T-shirt bins was in disarray…

This morning was another one for the books: I visited the Opry archives and interviewed my friends Tim Davis and Cameron Knowler for my upcoming podcast.

What do I do before bedtime? Well, tonight I’m watching old live videos of The Who in the mid-1960s.

I’ve been working hard behind the scenes and accumulating a lot of content before launching my upcoming podcast/YouTube channel.

On my record cutting lathe, there is a microscope to see what you’ve cut. The way the microscope works is by shining a light on your cut grooves at a 45-degree angle.

Machinists, fellow record lathe operators, mathematicians: perhaps you can help. I am stumped. The problem I’ve been having with my lathe is that my turntable is not level.

I’ve never been sure how much I believe in all that astrological stuff, but…

It’s tremendously well done, from the writing by Jim Heimann to the thousands of vintage black-and-white photographs and of course the over-the-top Taschen book layout.

The family has done an incredible job on some really exceptional museum-quality displays of cowboy hats, boots, guitars, saddles…

I still believe in the promise of the United States of America. I still celebrate our Independence Day, July 4th, despite the stain of idiocy, grift…