I really think he's one of the only honest heirs to John Prine's sense of humor in song. It's not exactly the same, but it scratches the same itch for me. Apparently John Prine loved his music, too.
"When I catch a raccoon," he says, "ninety-five percent of the time, it looks like a teenager that's been busted for smoking pot: just kind of aware of what they've done and accepting the consequences."
"Dear Mr. Benjamin Franklin," wrote a seventh grader from Winterville, Georgia. "In your time, the United States hardly existed. As I am writing this letter, it is almost the semi quincentennial, and BOY does the US exist now!"
1mo ago
The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works. But this is hardly ever the case; he usually also has a job, a family, and other amusements. This is obviously a sign of insufficient seriousness.
1mo ago
A man may take to drink on account of his wife, but he ought never to take to drink on account of his wife's husband.
