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<<<<<<<<this is how my apartment looked ..back in the day….

as a rule.,,..i am repulsed by most artist’s ABOUT ME page,,.,..they usually ramble on and on about how they studied art here or there and how they are SO inspired by this or that and how passionate they are etc etc…(urp).,.,..one day about 20 years ago, i just started painting on a whim and it has turned into a 20 year obsession,,,and i still am not sure what i am doing..

once i did an art show  with HOWARD FINSTER  in OXFORD, MISISSIPPI,,,He was a big legend,,,,but he was not all about Me..he was very cool…at the opening recpetion, he brought a banjo and sat and played it…and we ate pizza and he flirted with girls,,,i thought a lot of him..,.thats what art is about to me….you paint it..you show it.,,and dont worry too much  if they like it or not…if you paint it and you like it, someone else will too..,unless you are really bizarre…,,…but you hope they buy something…you would be surprised how many people come to your art openings just for the free wine and cheese…

i don’t know anything about art, except it is incredibly hard….every time i sit down to paint something,  i just pray that it will come out ok…. ..i don’t have an artist’s mission statement…i like to play guitar and to paint…and i like a pint of Foster’s lager…i am not complex…

most of the time people want to know how much money  a painting will cost them to order…..well, i will tell you…most of the time i paint on 24 x 24 thin wood…fiberboard or whatever..i can use a canvas also….your preference… and i charge from 100 to 200 dollars..depending on how hard it is…just drop me a line or call me.,,,,i’m friendly…..sometimes i give them away…sometimes i trade them for beer and cigarettes,,,..

some people are all impressed by celebrity…so i included my old partial celebrity client list…i’ve forgotten a lot that arent on there..100 dollars from you isnt any different than 100 dollars from eric clapton……

i have been in all kinds of magazines and newspapers….but ..snore…who cares…..?..

i was on tv this summer…on YOUNG BROKE AND BEAUTIFUL on the IFC channel…on a travel show about MEMPHIS..i heard from quite a few people who saw it….i didnt see it…i dont have that channel..,.,.,…oh yea…i forgot to memntion…i live in MEMPHIS…the poorest big city in AMERICA…

..my 2  favourite guitars…..the one on the left is exactly like my first  electric guitar..a 1950′s  fender esquire electric guitar that  i bought in 1967 for 100 dollars…it was beat up as hell when i bought it…… i wore it slap dab out by 1970…i know that there are no guitars in heaven (or whatever your afterlife belief is), because they make women nervous and they cant concentrate on watching tv..and there would be big ugly arguments…so i am playing the hell out of them now..!..and if they aint got cigarettes there, then  they better have a buttload of nicotine chewing gum..!..and lord, theres nothing wrong with beer, as long as it good quality….!..it brings out the best in me…the worst drunk people always drink the worst beer.,..i think…like Bud or Corona or swill like that..

from my favourite author…i have read ALL HIS BOOKS..twice or more..

“There is but one world and everything that is imaginable is necessary to it. For this world also which seems to us a thing of stone and flower and blood is not a thing at all but is a tale. And all in it is a tale and each tale the sum of all lesser tales and yet these are also the selfsame tale and contain as well all else within them. So everything is necessary. Every least thing. This is the hard lesson. Nothing can be dispensed with. Nothing despised. Because the seams are hid from us, you see. The joinery. The way in which the world is made. We have no way to know what could be taken away. What omitted. We have no way to tell what might stand and what might fall. And those seams that are hid from us are of course in the tale itself and the tale has no abode or place of being  except in the telling only and there it lives and makes its home and therefore we can never be done with the telling. Of the telling there is no end. And . . . in whatever . . . place by whatever . . . name or by no name at all . . . all tales are one. Rightly heard all tales are one.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

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CELEBRITY CLIENT LIST...IF YOU ARE THE TYPE OF PERSON WHO IS IMPRESSED WITH FAMOUS NAME DROPPING (I KNOW I AM)--HERE IS A LIST OF SOME OF THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE GOTTEN PAINTINGS FROM ME.....I'M NOT MAKING THIS UP EITHER..!!......IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER... KEITH RICHARDS..NEIL YOUNG...JIMMIE VAUGHN..MARTY STUART..MARK KNOPFLER..KIM RITCHIE..LUCINDA WILLIAMS..SOME GUY WHO SAID HE WAS A PRESIDENT AT SONY RECORDS (WHATEVER THAT MEANS)..DAVID LINDLEY..JACKSON BROWNE..BONNIE RAITT...JOHN HIATT..RADNEY FOSTER...DAVID CARUSO...DREW BARRYMORE ... SAM PHILLIPS (THE GUY WHO FOUNDED SUN RECORDS AND MADE MEMPHIS FAMOUS)...HECK--I COULD GO ON..BUT..YOU GET THE IDEA... DON'T BE IMPRESSED BY THAT IDLE BOASTING......JUST BUY ONE IF YOU LIKE IT...MY WORK IS AFFORDABLE TO THE COMMON MAN OR WOMAN...ALTHOUGH I FIND MOST WOMEN ARE NOT COMMON AND MOST MEN ARE USUALLY TOO COMMON....

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