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The Party Train Don’t Stop Here Anymore
What you see above here is the Proudfoot & Bird Radio player, loaded up and ready to go with more than 50 songs written (and in a few cases co-written) …
Proudfoot & Bird Radio
Several months ago I kicked off the Honk Journal Food & Drinks category with an article about family recipes, which included the recipe for my Okie grandmother’s legendary Cowboy Cookies. …
Cowboy Cookies International
Forty years ago today, on August 1, 1981, an upstart television network made a rather wobbly launch. Marred by technical glitches, packed to the brim with marginal, almost random content …
Too Much Is Never Enough
On Father’s Day 2019, my two young sons and I visited the delightful Bartlett Arboretum in Belle Plaine, Kansas, as we had numerous times before. This century-old public garden, a …
Where No Okie Has Gone Before
So you lost a whole summer to COVID-19 and now you’re vaxxed, waxed and maxed to make up for lost time. You got your hair cut, bought a couple summer …
Music for a Free-Range Summer
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Coming of Age on the Cherokee Strip
As a child growing up in the 1970s I assumed it was a given that pretty much all grown-ups smoked cigarettes. Clouds of acrid smoke drifted wherever adults congregated; even …
What’s Cooler than Being Kool?
Author’s Note: This story was written and first published on June 16, 2007. This reissue is dedicated to the memory of my good friend and occasional travel partner Bud Norman, …
Tulsarama!
HOLY HOME VIDEO, BATMAN! Nearly a full year after this story was first published here at Honk, video from these gigs has suddenly surfaced on YouTube, posted by Kirk Rhorer, …
The Bullet, the Juice and Me