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Tail of the Weak 3.49

Uncle Dave Griffin

Dec 8, 2018
5 min

Tail of the Weak 3.49

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 said it before; but it bears repeating. Waycross, Georgia songwriters have a unique 'something' that sets them apart from others. It's not that I think we're better than anyone else. I don't quite know what it is; but, I can tell you when I hear it. In 2003

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Tail of the Weak 3.45

Uncle Dave Griffin

Nov 11, 2018
4 min

Tail of the Weak 3.45

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. His career was much like the songs he wrote—no flash...maybe a little understated...but deep with an abiding soul. Tony Joe White—the Master of Swamp Rock—was born on July 23, 1943, the seventh of seven children raised in a shotgun shack on a 40-acre cotton farm in

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Tail of the Weak 3.27

Uncle Dave Griffin

Jul 7, 2018
3 min

Tail of the Weak 3.27

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 the dream of every parent for their children to have more and better opportunities for success in life than they themselves had. My son, Connor, 25 years ago today, came into our lives as a preemie baby, guided by angels on a wing and a prayer. Weighing in at

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Tail of the Weak 2.43

Uncle Dave Griffin

Oct 28, 2017
4 min

Tail of the Weak 2.43

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. Top hat head on a hard stage floor ~ Backward lean through the curtain door Unknown brought the whole house down ~ Dance with the Dolly in the denim gown Ol' Bocephus with a rowdy rep ~ Conversatin' with a Johnny Depp Fake Tom Petty on a Jesus high ~ Talk to a beave

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Tail of the Weak 2.17

Uncle Dave Griffin

Apr 29, 2017
5 min

Tail of the Weak 2.17

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

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Tail of the Weak 1.16

Uncle Dave Griffin

Nov 6, 2016
3 min

Tail of the Weak 1.16

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 Waycross/Hortense/Alma contingent of The Newfanglers were flyin' high after the recording session with Don Helms, fabled steel guitarist of Hank Sr.'s Drifting Cowboys band. It was Sunday, October 30, 2005; and, we were still in Nashville, Tennessee soaking up m

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Tail of the Weak 1.15

Uncle Dave Griffin

Oct 30, 2016
3 min

Tail of the Weak 1.15

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

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