My Friend Bill White

The other day while looking through my prodigious file of cassettetapes, I came across one from my friend Bill White, that he recordedback in the late 70s or early 80s. Inside the little plastic casewith a tape was a handwritten note from Bill and it said; to my...

My friend JD

This being the fifth Tuesday of the month I figured I’d grab another of our classic Welcomes, (yesterday’s was a doozy, George, I’m sorry for missing the end of it), but I’ve decided against that because I have something I want to say to you. It won’t be a long...

My friend Merle Haggard, an American original

Daily Grist–“Political correctness is pure cyanide to common sense.”   JDRhynesThe first time I heard Merle Haggard sing on a radio was in June of 1964. I was in my 1956 Ford pickup and I was talking to a friend of mine in front of his house, in...