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VALERIE, GUS, & BOZ

In 1977, I was living in Dallas, and my friend Chuck and I had a little four-track recording studio in our house. I was (and still am) a songwriter with designs on a music career. One of the albums I was listening to at the time was called A Stone’s Throw Away by a beautiful singer named Valerie Carter. I loved the record, which featured musical backing by members of Little Feat and Toto, and I loved her voice, which I imagined harmonizing with. So, I wrote a song called “Run Your Life Away” wit

LETTER FROM THE PUBLISHER, MARCH 2023

If you have not fertilized, it's just about time! I love this time of year when the weather starts to warm up, things start to bloom, we're planting flowers, and my not so favorite, spring cleaning. The forecasters say about a 27% chance of rain (on average, per day) in Louisiana in March, but we all know how that can change in a silly second, so if you can slip that fertilizing in just before the rain, that's the ticket! Area colleges have so much going on right now. Look for stories and i