Tune in to your local NPR station, check http://www.whyy.org/freshair for more info, or just wait for Phil Connor to post the transcript ;-) I just started reading Lone Star Swing, which may have been mentioned here earlier. It's by a novelist (Duncan McLean) from Orkney (remote islands off the coast of Scotland) who travels to Texas looking for western swing musicians from the Bob Wills era. Very funny and insightful, so far. I'll post a more complete review when I finish it. I also just bought "This World is Not My Home", the new Lone Justice CD. Someone posted earlier that this compilation gives a more complete picture of them as a "cowpunk" band, and I couldn't agree more. The demos and punk-ish early stuff are a real eye opener for me, since I missed the band completely when they were together, and have only had the recorded tracks to go on. Back to work...
