The Pied Piper of Pike County lands in Bourbon

January 4, 2019 Fletcher Long 0

Please your honours, said he, I’m able,/By means of a secret charm, to draw/All creatures living beneath the sun,/That creep or swim or fly or run,/After me so as you never saw!…“Pied Piper of Hamelin,” Robert Browning. These words were written about a man who lent himself to a city […]

Class of 2020’s Big, Bad Jon (Stefanopoulos)

January 2, 2019 Fletcher Long 0

There a song which was both written and performed by Jimmy Dean, back in the day, called Big, Bad John. In that song you will find the following lyrics… Somebody said he came from New Orleans/Where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen/And a crashin’ blow from a huge right […]