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CONGRATS to mrkelley23
Although the final November QoD won't close until Monday night, mrkelley24 has wrapped up a victory in the rather spotty November QoD. He edged peacock2121 by 4 points after staging a rally in the final two days.
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Thank you for hosting, Cal. I'm sorry you got afflicted by the Curse of the Bored Host: volunteering to host a game on here invariably leads to a disruption in your life that takes you away for significant time. It does me, anyway.
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My new avatar is the most flattering picture I've ever seen of one of my favorite songwriters, Steve Earle. Given his general crankiness, I can't say he would find the Peter Reckell comparison flattering, but it definitely shows what a good picture this is of him. Steve has lived his life hard, shall we say, and his face and body show the mileage he's put on them.
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This is the same guy, right?mrkelley23 wrote:My new avatar is the most flattering picture I've ever seen of one of my favorite songwriters, Steve Earle. Given his general crankiness, I can't say he would find the Peter Reckell comparison flattering, but it definitely shows what a good picture this is of him. Steve has lived his life hard, shall we say, and his face and body show the mileage he's put on them.
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The very same. Lost a bit of the Reckell-ness, hasn't he?
If you haven't heard his stuff, PSM, you ought to give it a try. It may be little twangy for you, especially the stuff he did with the McCoury Brothers, but it's definitely got some attitude. Which you appear to like in your music, if I may say so.
If you haven't heard his stuff, PSM, you ought to give it a try. It may be little twangy for you, especially the stuff he did with the McCoury Brothers, but it's definitely got some attitude. Which you appear to like in your music, if I may say so.
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What a difference. If the guy in PSM's photo moved onto my street, I'd be watching for indications of a meth lab.PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:This is the same guy, right?mrkelley23 wrote:My new avatar is the most flattering picture I've ever seen of one of my favorite songwriters, Steve Earle. Given his general crankiness, I can't say he would find the Peter Reckell comparison flattering, but it definitely shows what a good picture this is of him. Steve has lived his life hard, shall we say, and his face and body show the mileage he's put on them.
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Steve is one of those rare guys who abused his body for a long time, and still lives to tell about it. He went thru a long cocaine-and-heroin habit, but he claims to be clean now. Still, his pic is a good one to show young people who think drugs are cool. I'm always shocked at how young he is when I see a pic like that one. (He's in his early 50s.)silvercamaro wrote:What a difference. If the guy in PSM's photo moved onto my street, I'd be watching for indications of a meth lab.PlacentiaSoccerMom wrote:This is the same guy, right?mrkelley23 wrote:My new avatar is the most flattering picture I've ever seen of one of my favorite songwriters, Steve Earle. Given his general crankiness, I can't say he would find the Peter Reckell comparison flattering, but it definitely shows what a good picture this is of him. Steve has lived his life hard, shall we say, and his face and body show the mileage he's put on them.
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I met him about ten years ago. He's a good friend of my good friend Peter Rowan and came to see his show in Chicago.mrkelley23 wrote:My new avatar is the most flattering picture I've ever seen of one of my favorite songwriters, Steve Earle. Given his general crankiness, I can't say he would find the Peter Reckell comparison flattering, but it definitely shows what a good picture this is of him. Steve has lived his life hard, shall we say, and his face and body show the mileage he's put on them.
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Oh yeah.mrkelley23 wrote:The very same. Lost a bit of the Reckell-ness, hasn't he?
If you haven't heard his stuff, PSM, you ought to give it a try. It may be little twangy for you, especially the stuff he did with the McCoury Brothers, but it's definitely got some attitude. Which you appear to like in your music, if I may say so.
I looked him up on Wikipedia:
Earle has been married seven times, including twice to the same woman. His wives were Sandra (Sandy) Henderson, Cynthia Dunn, Carol Hunter (with whom he had his first child, Justin), Lou-Anne Gill (with whom he had a second son, Ian), Maria Teresa Ensenat, Lou-Anne Gill a second time, and finally in 2005, singer-songwriter Allison Moorer.
I remember the controversy when "John Walker's Blues" came out, but didn't remember his name.In recent years his music has been increasingly political. His 2002 album, " Jerusalem," was largely inspired by the U.S.-led War on Terrorism. This album featured Earle's "John Walker's Blues", which was about the captured American Taliban fighter John Walker Lindh. The song provoked widespread outrage; many accused Earle of sympathizing with terrorists since the song was written from Lindh's perspective.