The Little Man is Badly Bent
Note: This is my first post and I've pinned it up top temporarily so that the initial visitors to this new site can see it. At some point in the not-to-distant future I'll unpin it. 2019 started on a sour note, at least for hardcore country & western fans. Steve Ripley died four days into the new year. Ripley was the founder, and only permanent member, of a loosely-affiliated brotherhood of musicians who put out several albums under the band name The Tractors. Unlike many C&W songs that dwell on heartbreak, or the stereotype of booze-prison-and-pickup trucks, a couple of [...]