Tail of the Weak is a series of insights and musical memories from the mind of Uncle Dave Griffin, singer/songwriter and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.

     Down Home Band with Eddie Middleton was glad to be back in Panama City at the Sheraton on the Beach.  It was our fourth t...

Tail of the Weak is a series of insights and musical memories from the mind of Uncle Dave Griffin, singer/songwriter and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.

     Ingram Cecil Connor III spent the first 12 years of his life in Waycross, Georgia.  After his father's unfortunate a...

Tail of the Weak is a series of insights and musical memories from the mind of Uncle Dave Griffin, singer/songwriter and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.

     Back in the day—when my generation of club-hoppers used to hop—there were a number of places where young men an...

Tail of the Weak is a series of insights and musical memories from the mind of Uncle Dave Griffin, singer/songwriter and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.

     To blog or not to blog.  That is the question.  I questioned my old Doghill buddy, James Cocke, when he posed t...

Tail of the Weak is a series of insights and musical memories from the mind of Uncle Dave Griffin, singer/songwriter and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.

            Hey, diddle, diddle!  The cat and the fiddle—The cow jumped over the moon...

Tail of the Weak is a series of insights and musical memories from the mind of Uncle Dave Griffin, singer/songwriter and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.

     Over the course of my life, I've listened to a lot of music.  In the early years, it was my daddy's expansive record collection—alb...

Tail of the Weak is a series of insights and musical memories from the mind of Uncle Dave Griffin, singer/songwriter and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.

     Of all the things she could give me—to outlast all time

     It was the joy of a sweet boy so fine

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Tail of the Weak is a series of insights and musical memories from the mind of Uncle Dave Griffin, singer/songwriter and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.

     During the summer of 1970—right smack in between my junior and senior years at Ware County High School—I landed an aftern...

Tail of the Weak is a series of insights and musical memories from the mind of Uncle Dave Griffin, singer/songwriter and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.

     It's that fantastic phenomenon of the universe—that moment in space and time—of which Leon Russell was the master—when yo...

Tail of the Weak is a series of insights and musical memories from the mind of Uncle Dave Griffin, singer/songwriter and founder of the Annual Gram Parsons Guitar Pull and Tribute Festival, from Waycross, Georgia.

     Well, he's the first cross-dresser in Waycross—and for this small town, that's news

     And when he gets in front of a to...