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Photo, above: White-tailed buck snacking on a Texas Hill Country cedar tree, August 2020.

I was once at a party in rural Virginia in which a group of retired military guys went on and on about government and taxes without ever realizing where all their income and pensions come from

Having listened to the Brown Sugar advance about a hundred times prior to our meeting, I babbled about the jazzy textures on When We Get By, the soulful Me and Those Dreamin Eyes of Mine, the silky vocals of the Smokey Robinson cover Cruisin, the boldness of the blues brooding of Shit, Damn, Motherfucker, and the lush nickel-bag love of the title track