Adam Van Winkle

And the highway’s your mainline, highway’s a snake
Hard as a habit, gone bad is to break

Just go sailing on through, sailing on through, sailing on through...

Spin #1 today is JUST LIKE MOBY DICK:

Release date: November 7, 2025
Pre-save: 30tgrs.ffm.to/earlymorning...

Rack'em Records
Thirty Tigers
Photo by Barbara FG

On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with a red right hand

James Gedda & the Big Breakfast do Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.

In the night forlorn
Ah, the morning's born
And the morning shines
With the lights of love
You will miss sunrise
If you close your eyes
That would break
My heart in two

Lyle does Townes: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_7_B...

ISSUE 10.1: A CASE OF KINK ISSUE 10.1: A CASE OF KINK The world lost songwriting and mystery writing great Kinky Friedman this year.  Our fall issue is a nod to his one of kind, quirky mystery fiction. Enjoy these 10 offbeat...

The incomparable Kinky Friedman was born on this day in 1944. Remember when Cowboys Jamboree did a whole issue inspired by the Kinkster’s life and detective fiction?

A Case of Kink: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/issue-101-a-...

YouTube video by lylelovettdotcom Lyle Lovett: In My Own Mind

Kiss her on the forehead
Asked her how she slept
She says, 'honey, it's so early
Probably shouldn't speak yet'

Born on this day in 1957: the great @lylelovett.bsky.social.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=S_E5...

Looking forward to checking this one out.

YouTube video by MusicFromTV1990s Joe Ely - on Austin City Limits Halloween 1984

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I got these great Bob Wills 45s from my papa's collection. My dad said something about my great aunt dating or marrying Bob Wills' brother. Possible given they lived in central Oklahoma but unconfirmable now. Anyway, saw this awesome poster in The Lowdown and thought of them.

YouTube video by Amoeba Ethan Hawke & Killer Mike - What's In My Bag?

Ethan Hawke & Killer Mike mark out to the genius of Terry Allen at @amoebamusic.bsky.social (and talk Charley Crockett, Merle Haggard, and other cool shit).

m.youtube.com/watch?v=B-zw...

Yea, be sad to see.

Quite sure he played the Madill, OK Sand Bass Festival when I was a kid in the early nineties. At least, I have a faint memory of it...

My love, my love has gone away
My love, my love, what can I really say
My love would never see
That this world's just not real to me
And tonight I think I'm gonna go downtown

Jerry Jeff does Jimmie Dale: www.youtube.com/watch?v=04pY...

Just like the moon, yea
Wooo, I'll be hangin out now
High in the sky
Yea, I come with the night
Gone, gone with the mornin light

Squeezin in some Jerry Jeff between classes:

My six-year-old’s music teacher in school was explaining something to the class with a scenario of two characters on the board, Bob and Dylan. My son raised his hand to inform his music teacher that there’s actually a really great musician named Bob Dylan. And I’m a proud dad.

Well he's crippled blind and crazy
He's got his back against the wall
Cause the river so wide
And man his boat is so small

Blaze Foley does Calvin Russell: www.youtube.com/watch?v=4uPy...

I don't even like to think about you at all
But some days I just can't help myself
And your memory puts me up against the wall
You were all I had but you had someone else

Feels like a Blaze kinda day. Spin #1:

I suppose that I could love you
But my mind tells me, "No way"
It says, "Screw it, you've been through it
It's not worth the price you pay"

Ags Connolly does Loudon Wainwright III: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_wJ...

Ay ay ay ay
It ain’t nothin’ unexpected
Ay ay ay ay
Well at least I should have learned
You’d think I’d know nothing stays the way you left it
If you think you can choose when you go and when you return

That's a hell of a lyric.

Spin #1 today is Ags Connolly:

Did some early mornin yard work. Came on an underground nest of yellow jackets. They got me on my wrists before I got out of there. Wrists are starting to look like sausage wrapped too tight…

Update on the Friday night dance party w/ the 4-year-old and 6-year-old: EPIC. We danced to Elvis, Old Crow Medicine Show, the Wall Flowers and Matt Moran & the Palominos.

Living's just something you're goin through
With no place to hide
I fell into your eyes
And I found myself in you...

Jerry Jeff does Willie (and one of my all time favorite songs): www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBns...

Going gray around the temples
Usually days when I won't shave
Have a habit of tripping over ripples
And watching them roll in to waves...

Friday mornin feels like a good time for one of my favorite Jerry Jeff albums. Spin #1:

Happy Friday to all, big and small.

I came here looking for something
I couldn't find anywhere else
Hey, I'm not tryin' to be nobody
I just wanna chance to be myself

Dwight and Buck do Buck: www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0PN...

Stoked to say our upcoming fall issue, "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked," will feature a new story by Ags Connolly and our editor will have an interview with the man and a review of his music. Y'all need to check him out if you ain't yet.

But I’ll go through this again
And I guess I’ll survive it then
How long it lasts will depend
So just pour it and I’ll say when

Between classes in my office, listenin to @ConnollyAgs:

You've got the voice for it.

YouTube video by Dwight Yoakam Dwight Yoakam - Guitars, Cadillacs (Official Music Video)

Ain't no glamour in this tinseled land of lost and wasted lives
Painful scars are all that's left of me
Oh but thank you girl for teachin me brand new ways to be cruel
If I can find my mind now I guess I'll just leave

BOTD in 1956: the great Dwight Yoakam

m.youtube.com/watch?v=q6F7...