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. As a local outdoor music festival promoter, I've seen a few things over the years—from males and females wishing to pay tribute to Ray Stevens's legendary 1974 nudity ditty, “The Streak”—from gracious celebrities who gave magical musical performances to former stars

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 first time I ever heard a pedal steel guitar, I was about four years old, listening to Daddy's Hank Williams records. I must've been drawn to that haunting, melancholy sound because, by the time I was 19 and had grown up listening to The Beatles, Rolling Stones

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 Sam, folks in New York really had something to worry about. I suppose whether or not to go disco dancing with a killer on the prowl was a pretty weighty decision to make. Down in Valdosta, Georgia at the King of the Road, the motel where Down