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 that fantastic phenomenon of the universe—that moment in space and time—of which Leon Russell was the master—when you're magically transported way back to the exact place where you heard a certain song for the first time. As sure as my name is Uncle Dave Griff

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 figure I was a lot like the little monkey that I read about in books—some of the earliest books I enjoyed as a child. I had much in common with Curious George—and that penchant for getting into situations made late-1950s life in Tripoli, Libya most interesting fo

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. Tripoli, Libya, in the late Fifties, was a magical, memorable place. I was all of four years old when we moved there in 1958. Following the liberation of Libya from German occupation during WW II, the United States leased Wheelus Air Base from the Kingdom of Libya,