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All because of Elvis…
In 1956, Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley was released. That’s also the year I was born. I have heard Elvis music all my life. When I was nine years old, while visiting my grandparents in Jackson, Tennessee, I saw him … Continue reading
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Tagged Elvis, Memphis, Mobile, music, Pascagoula, rock & roll
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From the Tallahatchie Bridge to the company store
Today is “the third of June,” and since I am not in the Delta, I can’t tell you if it is sleepy or dusty this year. Most likely, it is both. But I can tell you that each … Continue reading
All because of Elvis…
In 1956, Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley was released. That’s also the year I was born. I have heard Elvis music all my life. When I was nine years old, while visiting my grandparents in Jackson, Tennessee, I saw him … Continue reading
From the Tallahatchie Bridge to the company store
Today is “the third of June,” and since I am not in the Delta, I can’t tell you if it is sleepy or dusty this year. Most likely, it is both. But I can tell you that each year … Continue reading
Pickin’, shellin’ and tellin’
“Make sure they’re not too soft, boy. I don’t want tomato juice all over the backseat of my Buick.” My first lesson in choosing tomatoes, around 1972. I think about those words from my grandfather every summer as tomatoes, green … Continue reading
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Tagged Alabama, black eyed peas, butter beans, Dewey, GM&O, Les Kerr, Mississippi, music, Pascagoula, Pittman, Railroad, summer, Tennessee, Tillman's Corner, tomato, trains, vegetables
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Tracks
The memorial service at a little West Tennessee country church was followed by fried chicken, green beans and potato salad. Mixed in between the homemade banana bread and sweet tea were, “It’s good to see you,” “How have you … Continue reading
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Tagged Carl Perkins, church, country, fried chicken, funerals, GM&O, green beans, Gulf Mobile and Ohio, Highway 45, Humboldt, Interstate 40, Jackson, Les Kerr, music, Nashville, railroads, sweet tea, Tennessee, The Little Rebel, tracks, trains
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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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Comfort Music
First course: comfort food Sometimes a good shrimp po’ boy does the trick. Shrimp Creole, the way my mama used to cook it, always made me feel better, even when I was feeling fine already. Boiled shrimp, Trout Amandine or … Continue reading
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Tagged Americana, B.B. King, Bing Crosby, comfort food, comfort music, comforting, Elvis Presley, food, Jimmy Buffett, Jo Stafford, John Hartford, Johnny Cash, Les Kerr, Lester Flatt, music, Nashville, Tennessee, world situation
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Off Broadway
“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.” According to baseball great Yogi Berra in The Yogi Book (I Really Didn’t Say Everything I Said), he made that comment in 1959 to Stan Musial and Joe Garagiola about a favorite restaurant … Continue reading
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Tagged Ashley Campbell, Bluebird Cafe, bluegrass music, Bob's Your Uncle, Broadway, Carl Jackson, Centennial Park, Donelson, Green Hills, Homegrown Taproom, Larry Cordle, Mark Robinson, music, Musicians Corner, Nashville, Red's Wine and Spirits, Roland White, Roots Radio, Ryman Auditorium, Secret Sisters, songwriting, Station Inn, Tennessee, Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, tourism, Val Story, WMOT FM
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Les Kerr's Liner Notes 