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. “Daddy, I want to learn to play the guitar”. That's what my 15-year-old daughter, Megan, said to me in 1998. Fearing her obsession would be over just as soon as she broke a nail, I hoped for the best; and, on a piece of notebook paper, I drew out diagrams of the 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. Growing up in the Baby Boomer generation, children in the 50s and 60s were afforded luxuries beyond what our parents and grandparents dreamed of. Television sets replaced the big radios in living rooms and dens across America—but we never stayed glued to the boob 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. James Cocke sat in Waycross, Georgia's Hickory Wind Music Store, smiling at all the friends, family, and curiosity seekers who had come to hear a story or buy an autographed copy of his self-published book, Cocke Tales: Memoirs of a Redneck Hippy. I was reminded of

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. “Ding Dong, the witch is dead. Which old witch? The wicked witch! Ding Dong, the wicked witch is dead!” I felt every bit as joyous as a Wizard of Oz Munchkin must have felt after Dorothy dropped the house on the Wicked Witch of the East. I grinned and laughed ou