James Dean----Eagles

The Byrds - Hickory Wind

Went through the town of Joshua Tree yesterday on my way back to Oregon. This is where country/rock singer Gram Parsons died of an overdose at the Joshua Tree Inn at the age of 26 in 1973. He is considered to be one of the pioneers of country/rock.

Even through he came from a very wealthy family he experienced a lot of trauma in his youth-his father committed suicide when he was 12 and his mother died of cirrhosis of the liver the day he graduated from high school. For those interested in learning more about his life I'm including a link.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gram_Parsons

Hickory Wind has been covered by numerous artists including his friend Keith Richards. This was when he was with the Byrds.

Travis Tritt - No Vacation From the Blues

Merle haggard Tonight the bottle let me down

Drove through Bakersfield this afternoon on the way to Indio and this song popped into my head.

Human Beings----- Seal

If I Could Fly---- Joe Satriani

Danny Gatton - Blues Newburg

Boz Scaggs Runnin' Blue

Legendary Media Reporter Bill Carter Destroys 'Horserace' Coverage of Trump Campaign Rollout'.....

One of the most storied media reporters of all-time has denounced the fourth estate’s coverage of former President Donald Trump’s de facto campaign rollout.

In a Sunday morning tweet, CNN analyst Bill Carter slammed the press for focusing on the politics of Trump’s speeches on Saturday in New Hampshire and South Carolina, and more or less treating him as a conventional candidate.

“To have ZERO accountability for the most lawless Admin in US history, one that plotted a COUP for pity’s sake, is both a massive fail and an incipient disaster,” Carter wrote.

Carter was responding to a tweet from never-Trump conservative Bill Kristol — who fumed at the tenor of Saturday’s reporting from the campaign trail.

“Coverage I’ve seen of Trump campaign trip is all 2024 horserace,” Kristol wrote. “Jan. 6 not mentioned. Understandable but suggests the price we’ve paid for no indictments, no trial, no real reckoning for Jan. 6. Trump treated as normal candidate, not a president who tried to subvert an election.”

https://www.mediaite.com/trump/legendary-media-reporter-bill-carter-destroys-horserace-coverage-of-trump-campaign-rollout-a-massive-fail-and-an-incipient-disaster/

Midnight at the Oasis