Country Time: Mockingbird

Written by sister-brother duo Inez and Charlie Foxx from Greensboro, North Carolina, it was a Top Ten hit for them back in 1963:




In 1974, it was a #5 hit for James Taylor and then-wife Carly Simon, seen here at a No Nukes concert in New York City in 1979:




And in 2004, Toby Keith and daughter Krystal took it to the country charts, where it reached #27:

Blue Moon

Guess all you fellas have heard by now that the full moon on New Year's Eve will be a "blue moon."  Everybody else has written about what that means and doesn't mean, so I'm not gonna go into all that here.  Just sorry that the moon won't really look blue; wouldn't that be purty if it did?

Here's Toby Keith singing about that blue moon kind of love, that only comes around once in a long, long time.



P.S. - Here's what the "blue moon" looks like from my kitchen window:

Afternoon Drive: Should've Been a Cowboy

By popular demand, a couple more pics of me at age 25 . . . .

. . . . I fucking wish.

But here's a gen-u-wine cowboy stud to take us into the weekend.  Have a good one, boys - see you down the road.