Panhandle Slim…

I met Walter Hyatt a week or two before he died in a plane crash. He was playing at the folk club where I was a volunteer, and we were alone in the kitchen while he was tuning his guitar. It was an old Stella, and he’d had it completely rebuilt. That thing rang like a bell, as he showed me.

I still can’t believe how bad I felt about that guitar lying at the bottom of the ocean.

I remember this one guy I was in love with, I’d sit in my car and cry, listening to this song. Oh man, when I think of some of the assholes I invited into my life… John Waite:

Richard Hawley:

Panhandle Slim…

Today would have been my mom’s 92nd birthday:

https://youtu.be/_xtVZjVj2Dc

Lyle Lovett:

Nanci Griffin:

https://youtu.be/9F0u4RJE1pg