Blackberry Smoke invaded Winston-Salem, NC on Friday night to perform for an enthusiastic sell-out crowd that included Dean Parris, who is well on his way to recovery from the injuries he sustained in a scooter accident last October during the Simple Man Cruise. A video crew captured the entire show. They were like friendly cyborgs...
This old pic of Dave Mason made me think of my friend, Outlaws guitarist Billy Crain, whose mother passed away a couple days ago. Here’s hoping Billy is Feelin’ Alright again very soon.
St. Louis’s own Pat Liston and Kevin Sanders of Mama’s Pride posed for me in 1975. (As you can see, I’ve been scanning old black and white negatives again.) Please forgive my memory, if I don’t get this exactly right. Apparently, one or more of the guys in Mama’s Pride had an interest in makeup....
The word from Miami this morning is that Dean Parris is opening his eyes and beginning to wake up. That’s great news! Since Dean may very well emerge from his ordeal with less hair on his head than he had when he embarked on the cruise, I thought I’d post a pic of Dean that...
Other than his wife, Pepper, and his kids, grand-kids, and family, there is not much my friend Dean Parris likes better than listening to The Outlaws and Blackberry Smoke perform. Dean and Pepper were on the Simple Man Cruise with both bands when Dean was critically injured in a scooter crash in Cozumel, Mexico. He...
Usually when someone poses for a portrait, it’s in a studio or during an outdoor photo shoot. I don’t often have the opportunity to shoot a portrait onstage in front of an audience. But this shot of my old friend, singer/songwriter Mike Walkup is an exception to the rule. Just before C & M Traveling...
Almost three months after he was struck by a hit and run driver, my friend Walt Horton gets out of the hospital on Wednesday. The accident nearly killed him, but like the tee shirt says, he’s lucky, and too tough to die. Walt posed for me late this afternoon in the physical therapy gym of...
I didn’t stay at the Chili Cotillion on Saturday as long as I would have liked because I had been invited to a kiln firing at Kim Ellington Pottery in Vale, NC near Hickory. Kim and Betsy Ellington are old friends who I have written about previously. Kim fires the kiln adjacent to his studio...
