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Monthly Archives: March 2018
The lower lights
Lighthouses speak to me. The first one I remember seeing as a little boy is the Biloxi Lighthouse on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. Later, when my family moved to Pascagoula in 1970 and I began to sail, the Round Island … Continue reading
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Tagged Biloxi, boats, Brent Stoker, church, Ecclesiastes, God, Gulf of Mexico, Hunter S. Thompson, hymn, island, Jimmy Buffett, Johnny Mercer, Kris Kristofferson, Les Kerr, lighthouse, lower lights, Mark Twain, Mississippi, Pascagoula, Philip Paul Bliss, Robert Service, Round Island, Rudyard Kipling, sailing, The Apostle Paul, W.C. Handy
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Southerners and Irishmen, revisited (song link included)
Songwriters are often asked where they get song ideas. I hope you’ll enjoy this story behind my song, Southerners and Irishmen. When I lived in Mobile, Alabama in the 1980s, I developed a near-addiction fondness for coffee with chicory, readily available in … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, chicory, coffee, Delchamps, Destin, Gulf Coast, Irish, Jimmy Kelly's Steakhouse, Les Kerr, Mobile, music, Nashville, New Orleans, songwriting, southern, St. Patrick's Day
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Les Kerr's Liner Notes 