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 the question to me back in 2016. I knew I had some things to impart, having lived a nomadic childhood as the son of a 20-year Air Force veteran—with homes

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 you're magically transported way back to the exact place where you heard a certain song for the first time. As sure as my name is Uncle Dave Griff

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. I'm a happy man. I have a lot to be grateful for—a family, a home, music gigs are coming in steadily. But, the reason I'm so happy today is that baseball season has officially begun. Games around the nation started up this past Thursday and will continue through S

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. On those long, lazy weekends of my childhood, we played outdoors on Doghill—in neighbor James Cocke's backyard pasture, once inhabited by a large bull that Big Granny, James's granddaddy, J. F. Lotz, had owned. We wore that pasture out, playing baseball, soccer, 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. I love sports. I grew up on Doghill—known to others as Mount Pleasant Road—in the small, south Georgia town of Waycross, where on any given Saturday—after the Linus the Lionhearted cartoon show was over—brother Gary, next-door neighbors, James Cocke, Greg Griffin,

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. On a Friday night during the summer of 1998, my wife, Lynne, and I rode to downtown Waycross and Whitfield's, a three-story bar, where you could be sure to run into a bunch of old friends. I did run into one fine musician, the late Charles McClellan, who, upon leav