no agent or handlers or managers, just a middle-aged man alone, coming to terms with himself and his future, which will hold far more quiet marinas in the years ahead than packed fairways. Not long ago, he asked Jordan a simple yet heavy question:How did you know when it was ...
I met his wife, Mary, too. She was lovely and outgoing, athletic and funny. She was the one who invited me in from the alley one Friday evening. I had just come home from work and she waved me over to check out their remodeled kitchen. We had a beer and laughed and joked, his ...
My parents were mistaken, victims of malicious rumor mongering. They told me I was too young to understand, which I dismissed with a wave of my stubby six-going-on-seven year old hand. Obviously, my grandfather could not be dead, as he was in the midst of building me a dollhouse, and...
He goes, “Well, what it was, we’d rehearse during the day and go in and it was just never the same sometimes. It wasn’t until the last city that we nailed it.” But how I looked at it in the cut, the [line] was so forceful and it sounded cool, so we used it, even th...
For pitcher Pete Richert, fatigues became as much a part of his wardrobe as a baseball uniform in 1968. In April, he served with the National Guard, trying to quell riots in Washington, D.C. In the fall, he went to Vietnam, looking to boost the spirits o
Johnny Cash, 'At Folsom Prison' (1968) Columbia Johnny Cash, 'At Folsom Prison' (1968) Johnny Cash began performing in prisons in the late '50s, but it was this 1968 live album that helped resuscitate the Man in Black’s career. At this point, Cash’s popularity was in steep decline...
Johnny Cash Mug Shot Now this picture was actually a bit of a joke for the guards when Cash performed at Folsom Prison. But Cash found himself in a mug shot at other times, including in 1965 when he was arrested in Starkville for trespassing to pick flowers. Since then, Starkville has ...
Johnny Cash Mug Shot Now this picture was actually a bit of a joke for the guards when Cash performed at Folsom Prison. But Cash found himself in a mug shot at other times, including in 1965 when he was arrested in Starkville for trespassing to pick flowers. Since then, Starkville has ...
Johnny Cash began performing in prisons in the late '50s, but it was this 1968 live album that helped resuscitate the Man in Black’s career. At this point, Cash’s popularity was in steep decline, thanks in no small part to his battles with drugs and alcohol. A fascination with this ...
Jackson Browne's Running on Empty album was one where the music fans got to be part of the process. Because it was recorded live on stage in concert -- and at other points along the touring trail, backstage, in hotel rooms and even on the tour bus - it was a unique and often chaot...