Musings

Steve Stav’s interview with Deke Dickerson, which appeared in the spring (and 35th anniversary) issue of England’s venerable Pipeline Instrumental Review.

I’m happy to report that I returned home with all of the surviving official Mosrite Guitar Company photos, paperwork, records, and ephemera, which was generously loaned to me by the Moseley family.

Mojo Nixon has always been a hero and inspiration to me. Friday I started watching a bunch of Mojo videos on YouTube and the idea came to me to do a tribute song. By Friday night it was written.

J.M. “Jimmy” Van Eaton is best known as Jerry Lee Lewis’s drummer, and it’s true that he played drums on all of Jerry Lee’s Sun records, but he did so, so, so much more.

Jerry Case, the former Texas Playboy and jazz guitarist, came over to my house recently and we shot a big interview about his long career and did some picking, too.

I decided to pull out some of my absolute favorite country album covers to share with you. These are the creme-de-la-creme, the blue-ribbon trophy winners, the gold bullion of country music album cover design.

I finally finished a cabinet restoration project I started about a month ago. My 1957 house has all-original bathrooms and kitchen. It’s always been a struggle to keep things original but looking nice.

“Why don’t you ask those guys? They study this shit. All I did was LIVE IT.” We laughed about that line for years.

It’s record organizing time at home, and I’ve been going through my albums, pulling the autographed ones so I can display some of them. I thought I’d shoot a video with some fun stories.

Reprinting Ward Meeker’s interview with Deke for Vintage Guitar magazine