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. The summer of 1977 was in full swing. Eddie Middleton, Down Home Band's front man and booking agent, was keeping us moving up and down the state of Georgia—Columbus's Callaway Gardens, Bananas in Macon, and the Man O' War Lounge in Augusta. Augusta, Georgia, a city

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. After the departure of our young keyboard player, Ricky Alderman, and drummer, Bruce Wood, Homegrown and Eddie Middleton had to pull some strings in late 1975 in order to keep the shows going and the money rolling in. Eddie's first move was to call on an old friend