Musings

I am howling with laughter and joy from seeing all these folks who died and wanted their secret and special recipes printed on their headstones.

Now, keep in mind, these strings are made out of UNOBTANIUM. You could probably spend years looking for a set for sale and never see any.

Any Maytag guys out there (preferably Los Angeles–based) have the discontinued “Maytag brake tool” used to separate the brake from the bottom seal on the underside of the washer?

My particular freedom today was trying to troubleshoot and fix my Maytag washer. It’s one of the last American-made ones and it has run flawlessly for the last eighteen years.

I’ll be talking about my book on Merle and his life, the research behind it, and some funny Merle stories you won’t hear anywhere else.

Somewhere out there, one of you extreme guitar nerds has an original 1950s-1960s set of Danelectro six-string bass strings. And I need them.

Don’t know anyone here except a friend of a friend, a kind photographer named Birney Imes, who has offered to let me crash.

At the intersection of Mendenhall and Poplar Avenue in East Memphis is where Elvis got off the train and walked home to his Audubon Drive house after returning from New York…

The thing that has really changed since the first time I came here are the exhibits. They have some giant buildings now with a lot of stuff I hadn’t seen before.

The Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis is one of the best museums I’ve ever been to.