1/14/2007

Down aroun' Biloxi

Heard from my best grad-school buddy, Terrie, whose Loozian'yan and Pensacola roots nicely bracket my own Creole / Redneck-Riviera flavorings (from my days in Mobile during the Johnson-Nixon years, when I was 9-14). Anyway, Terrie reports an upcoming road trip to see her idol Jesse Winchester in Baton Rouge, which put me in mind of his song "Biloxi". Jimmy Buffett's cover really captures the feeling I remember from trips there around the Hurricane Camille era.

I once played the song -- a command performance -- to a bunch of drunk waterfront deadbeats who saw me unloading my guitar from my VW bus at the redneck marina where we often debark for Dog Island. Across the boat ramp I hear "Hey, you play that thing? Come on play us a song!" with a slight air of menace, as if I'd better damn well come over and play something for them if I had *any* balls, and that song was what came to mind as I strolled up to their rickety beer-strewn picnic table behind the bait shop.

I made one of 'em cry.

1 comment:

Oly said...

Hi, J.S.
I'm not sure the search I did to find your blog, but I'm glad I ended up here.
I reallly enjoyed some of your photography, and ended up using it in my own blog.
I'm hoping you don't mind, but just really thought it was some great work that deserved some recognition.

You can check it out at:

http://lamgelinaoly.blogspot.com/2007/01/compare-and-contrast-101-with-dmitri.html

You can write me at pialamb@aol.com

Thanks for your time.

Olympia