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. Like everybody who had a fairly normal life as a child, Easter memories hold a special place in my mind. My earliest recollections are of two songs I used to hear played on our record player at home—“Easter Parade” written by Irving Berlin—and “Peter Cottontail” co

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. When I threw the 1st Annual Griffin Guitar Pull in my backyard the weekend following Thanksgiving 1998, I had no idea it would turn into a popular, little outdoor music festival 21 years later, paying tribute to the musical legacy of Waycross, Georgia's hometown boy

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. Birthdays are like old underwear—they keep creepin' up on you. When you've had 65 trips around the sun, that statement is fairly right on. The older I get, though it seems instead of creepin', the birthdays are haulin' ass—to stay with the underwear analogy. I'm not

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 the Blue Ridge Mountains, the best time to catch Mother Nature's colorful fall foliage on display is mid to late-October. Most folks living in south Georgia simply don't have the time or the money to motor up the country just to see the pretty leaves. Of course