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'm a happy man. I have a lot to be grateful for—a family, a home, music gigs are coming in steadily. But, the reason I'm so happy today is that baseball season has officially begun. Games around the nation started up this past Thursday and will continue through S

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. Way back in 1976, I spent a great deal of time in a motel room on the third floor of the King of the Road Motor Inn over in Valdosta, Georgia, playing music with Eddie Middleton and the Down Home band. My daily ritual was crawl out of bed after noon, ease downstairs