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As a young man just entering my 20s I fell for a time into the orbit of a Jane. It was then that I first noted the preponderance of songs …
Jane! Jane! Jane!
This is a true story and includes discussion and links related to the traumatic events of 9/11. It also details the period of my life in which I was prescribed …
I’ll Fly Away
The latter half of the 1990s was a transitional time for the music industry. Production of vinyl records had petered out almost entirely and the long-popular cassette format was plummeting …
Seen Magazine’s Lost Nineties Playlist
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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