Adam Van Winkle
@gritvanwinkle
EIC @CowboyJamboree; author Dylan Quick is a Dairy Queen Don Quixote & more; @notporncovers & @truckloadofart; Banner = Joe Ely & Jerry Jeff neckerchiefs
When authors you truly admire have good things to say about your own writing...it's just the best feeling in this game there is. Thanks so much to THE @Shelbyhinte for this awesome blurb for COUNT THE DUST. Out in December from @LEFTOVERBOOKS y'all.
Droppin in December from @LEFTOVERBOOKS...
Terry Allen, ANCIENT, 2000-2001 (multi media installation that was part of the DUGOUT I installation, 2004)
Submit to [email protected] y’all.
CALL FOR SUBS-CJ FALL 2025 ISSUE Theme: "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." Where'd it come from? It's a James "Slim" Hand lyric from a song about sitting in a bar in the corner at a table by a jukebox. Interpret however you like. Story/CNF/Verse. Deadline: Sept 21
So step inside where love has died and you'll sure find me With sadness and a haunted face that's bound to be Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked In the corner, at the table, by the jukebox @ConnollyAgs does James Hand: youtube.com/watch?v=5Nwe7c…
CALL FOR SUBS-CJ FALL 2025 ISSUE Theme: "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." Where'd it come from? It's a James "Slim" Hand lyric from a song about sitting in a bar in the corner at a table by a jukebox. Interpret however you like. Story/CNF/Verse. Deadline: Sept 21
So step inside where love has died and you'll sure find me With sadness and a haunted face that's bound to be Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked In the corner, at the table, by the jukebox @CharleyCrockett does James Hand: youtube.com/watch?v=8meUxi…
CALL FOR SUBS-CJ FALL 2025 ISSUE Theme: "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." Where'd it come from? It's a James "Slim" Hand lyric from a song about sitting in a bar in the corner at a table by a jukebox. Interpret however you like. Story/CNF/Verse. Deadline: Sept 21
CALL FOR SUBS-CJ FALL 2025 ISSUE Theme: "Hidden behind the door that sorrow locked." Where'd it come from? It's a James "Slim" Hand lyric from a song about sitting in a bar in the corner at a table by a jukebox. Interpret however you like. Story/CNF/Verse. Deadline: Sept 21
Caught lots of fish and soaked up the North Woods plenty.
CJ is back at home base in South Carolina. After a month or more of travels we’re back at it. Give us a day or four to recover and we’ll be back to normal response time.
She said, "If you're from Texas, son Then where's your boots and where's your gun?" I smiled and said, "I got guns no one can see" Missed posting for Butch Hancock’s 80th birthday 2 days ago so here’s a recent @TexasMonthly article on the all time great: texasmonthly.com/travel/butch-h…
And the finale single from the upcoming album is out Listen now —> open.spotify.com/track/3GTsa6pm…
Nice video from the songwriters round we did opening for Jesse Daniel on Sunday night... youtu.be/uvzaXJEremU?si…
“Sailor meets Alice in a Tijuana bar/They get drunk/Fuck/Cry-to-believe together/and get married..." -Terry Allen, "Dialogue: The Characters (A Simple Story)" on the JUAREZ album Below, Terry Allen, MELODYLAND (ext & int) from the exhibition A SIMPLE STORY (JUAREZ), 1992
'bout a week left on this call y'all
“Sailor meets Alice in a Tijuana bar/They get drunk/Fuck/Cry-to-believe together/and get married..." -Terry Allen, "Dialogue: The Characters (A Simple Story)" on the JUAREZ album Below, Terry Allen, MELODYLAND (ext & int) from the exhibition A SIMPLE STORY (JUAREZ), 1992
It's a thousand miles or more From here to your front door I'd be there tomorrow if I left today… Born on this day in 1953: the great Nanci Griffith. m.youtube.com/watch?v=DYg_GD…
This was originally written for @CowboyJamboree, inspired by Lyle Lovett's "She's Already Made Up Her Mind." @gritvanwinkle said some encouraging things but passed on it. Thrilled that @bloominonionlit has made it their first longform story!
"If anyone ever wrote a novel about advertising she could think of no better title than The Deck." I'd be honored if you'd put this 5K-word story in your queue. Beyond grateful to @bloominonionlit for having it. thebloominonion.com/longform-story
Yea, I'm crashin the state lines Headed for a high time this Sunday And I need your tattoo Next to mine when I do Ahhh, Chic Blundie -Terry Allen, "Dogwood" Below: Terry Allen, STAT ELINE (JUAREZ)
12 days left to submit to CJ's JUAREZ/Terry Allen incited anthology.
Yea, I'm crashin the state lines Headed for a high time this Sunday And I need your tattoo Next to mine when I do Ahhh, Chic Blundie -Terry Allen, "Dogwood" Below: Terry Allen, STAT ELINE (JUAREZ)
Perhaps the very best thing about Texas, of course, is the amazing cast of characters it has produced. Traces of Texas reader Stan Watty kindly sent in this great photo of BBQ maestro C.B. "Stubb" Stubblefield, who opened a legendary BBQ place/music venue in Lubbock in 1968 and…