This blog was created to give a glimpse into the various and sundry spectacular shenanigans of the community of musicians/supporters of Slingshot Records, LLC.
Earlier this month, my buddy Jim Hayslett, who co-wrote that last song on our CD decided to come the Nashville to get baptized. The song is titled “A Better Place”… It was originally titled “Alcohol” because that’s what Jim used to “self medicate” the pain of the last 12 years of his life. […]
We were down in North GA a few weeks ago visiting my wife’s side of the family. Her uncle, Reginald (the pastor that married us) was talking music shop talk with me. He said that he’d found an old upright bass (in his church storage… I think?), and started plucking around on it. Wasn’t long […]
Speaking of my dad’s uncle, Leroy. My dad recently told me that his aunt used to call Leroy “LA’Roy”. Because he’d convinced her that he was a Frenchman from England. You heard that right, “a Frenchman from England.”
In the last few years my dad shared this gem from his childhood. I asked him to re-familiarize me with the details… Here you go… in my dad’s words –
This is a true story about me when I was in my teens. I enjoyed working in the automobile junkyard and garage that my dad and […]
We were milling around the house a few weeks ago and our TV happened to have been left on a station showing an old episode of Star Trek. My 3 year old walked by… stopped dead in her tracks… stared for a few seconds… and then said in a slightly disturbed voice: “hey… that’s… not… […]