The Last Free-Range Kid: Stories from the South™
Russell TrippI grew up in the South during the era of free-range children, where baseball, bikes, and Slurpees shaped most of my boyhood summers. These days, I write about memory, family, and the small Southern stories that still manage to say something big.
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Playlist of the Week: Before They Went Solo
Last week’s playlist featured cover songs that many people don’t realize are covers. One of the selections was “Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)” by Kenny Rogers & The First Edition.
I’ve lost count of how many t...
A Southern Weakness for General Stores
I’ve always loved an old general store.
There’s something about the nostalgia of these places. Long before Amazon, Walmart, and the cold sameness of modern retailing, there were general stores.
General stores helped build America. They we...
Playlist of the Week: Wait, That's a Cover?
I fell down a musical rabbit hole this week.
It started with “Train Kept A-Rollin’.”
Most of us know the song from The Yardbirds. Some know the hard-charging version by Aerosmith. But while poking around old rockabilly recordings, I...
Top Ten Things My Father Taught Me
Some fathers sit you down for serious talks. My dad wasn’t that kind. He taught with his hands, a roll of duct tape in his pocket, with a little bit of elbow grease and whole lot of grunting, and with a Coke float on the kitchen counter. Lo...
Playlist of the Week: One Thing Led to Another
A while back, I put together a playlist built around Bo Diddley and a handful of other blues giants. As often happens these days, the streaming algorithms took that as a suggestion rather than a destination.
Before long, they had wandered...
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I grew up in the South during the era of free-range children, where baseball, bikes, and Slurpees shaped most of my boyhood summers. These days, I write about memory, family, and the small Southern stories that still manage to say something big.
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