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've certainly enjoyed most of the jobs I held while accruing those coveted Social Security earnings that I rely on now that I'm retired. Several of them were customer service jobs—I sold stamps at the front counter of the Waycross Post Office from 1993 to 1998; 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. There's an old saying—“If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it's yours. If not, it was never meant to be”. That's a nice, little psychological assumption meant for romantic relationships and hit songs by Sting, I suppose; but, when it comes to gu

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 older you get, the better you get...unless you're a banana. I had the routine down pretty good by the time I was five and living in Tripoli, Libya. The cake was everything you were. Whatever it was you were into—Hopalong Cassidy and his horse, Topper; Disney mi

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. In January of 2006, I was well into my fourth year working for Paul Lee at Crosstown Music in downtown Waycross, Georgia. We sold everything from Martin guitars and Korg keyboards to kazoos and G-strings. Oh how painful it is when you break a G-string while perfor

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 you in a place where there's no space and time I love you for my life, you are a friend of mine And when my life is over --- Remember when we were together We were alone and I was singing my song for you - “A Song For You” by Leon Russell My good friend and f

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. “Six souls on board,” Mike Johnson, Waycross pilot of the single-engine Piper Lance, spoke into the mic of the plane's radio, right before we took off from Nashville's John C. Tune Airport. It gave me an eerie sense of mortality; but, after the weekend we'd had, I