Archive for June 4, 2007
On the road with Burke: Dear Alabama, Georgia, and the Carolinas - WHY DO YOU HATE BICYCLES?
June 4, 2007 by Bill Gould, Publisher.
Written By: Burke
The South, USA - Before I get going with this thingamablobber, I should clear a few things up in order to avoid hurting any feelings, because, shit, I really REALLY hate hurting feelings.
Let me just say that, overall, I absolutely fuh-rickin’ LOVE the southeast corner of these United States. Yeah, there’s a hell of a lot of fucked-up things about this part of the country (for example….the abundance of Confederate flags….that really annoying tendency of several counties to outlaw the sale of alcohol on Sundays….etc.), but, despite all that, it’s one of my favorite sections of the U.S.A.. I lived in North Carolina for a few years, and it’s the place where I wrote my first halfway-decent songs and the place where I gave my first halfway-decent performances….it’s also the place where I came of age in several ways that I won’t exactly go into detail about. As I’ve said before in these blogs, damn near every song on my “Year of You” album was written in North Carolina, and those few that weren’t written there were written ABOUT North Carolina.
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