“Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name. But what’s puzzling you is, the nature of my game.” — The Rolling Stones “Hi. I’m Billy. I’m Griffin’s dad.” I took a sweeping glance at the faces of the people in the group. They were sitting in folding metal chairs…

In his wistful song “A Pirate Looks at Forty,” Jimmy Buffet describes in vivid detail the life and attitude of an aging smuggler. The subject of that song laments that he was born too late to practice his true calling of being a pirate. He misses things that he’d never…

“Out with the truckers and the kickers and the cowboy angels, and a good saloon in every single town” — Gram Parsons “If you’ve got time, there’s a diner just a couple of miles from here. We could get breakfast.”. We were just pulling into Kevin Maul’s driveway after playing…