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$3.5 million as bail? That's okay, you can have it. I'm off. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-23/questions-asked-forged-bail-document-used-to-flee-rehab/104850092?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

Nope - more like Sturgill Simpson. Tony Joe (another of my heroes) is the king of swamp blues. But as always, the lines between all these classifications are blurred.

He's a genre-hopper A5, and he handles all of them. He writes like a balladeer, sings like a folkie and plays guitar like a genuine rocker. I can't believe I took so long to find him.

"We want a better outcome for the family and we want justice." Well, here's some information. Justice is served when someone breaks into your home and they end up injured, in custody or dead...

Yesterday (January 19) was Dolly Parton's birthday, which is a good reason to post this video. George Jones and Dolly Parton - country music doesn't get any better than this.

As was obvious, the 13 year-old has form and was on bail for another serious assault. So why was he out and about unsupervised?

This is the Channel 7 report. Police seem rather coy about the offender's criminal history.

Although his name was vaguely familiar, somehow I had missed the opportunity to make the acquaintance of Mr. Ray Wylie Hubbard - until yesterday. He has been performing for more than 50 years and has released more than a dozen albums, founded on gospel blues, folk, country and Texas...

And Happy New Year to the cheeky little tyke who won so many hearts. Keep digging people, and keep asking questions. At the very least, William's memory deserves answers.

Geez....just thinking about some of those mad afternoon and evening sessions launched with the nectar of the agave. $8,000 a bottle? Ay, Dios Mio!

I have never been on a cruise ship, and never wanted to be anywhere near one. Why, you ask?

File this sentence under Crimes Against Humanity.

Another rapist grub is off to jail in WA. 13 years with parole. It should have been 20. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-17/farzam-mehrabi-jailed-drugging-raping-women/104736008?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

Victim identified. Seems like another DV tragedy. So sad. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-12-14/nsw-police-botany-body-idenitification/104726032?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

Have you ever written professionally, Prof? I have listened to, and read widely about many genres of music over a lot of years, but I haven't come across anyone who writes with the authority, enthusiasm and flair that you do. And it's extraordinary that work of this quality can only be found on...

We used to have places for people like this. They were called lunatic asylums.

Further developments. Getting grubbier by the day.

Today, he offered bail of $50 MILLION (US) but was denied for a third time. I'm stocking up on popcorn. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-28/diddy-denied-us-50-million-dollar-bail-bid-/104659360?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

The last few years haven't been much fun for this WA ex-pollie. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-27/barry-urban-fighting-for-life-attack-perth-tyre-business/104652076?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

This one has flown under the radar somewhat. A 19 year-old disappeared from Brunswick late last year, and now her body has been found. Two elderly men have been arrested and charged. Yet another tragedy. Rest in peace dear Isla...

Surprise, surprise.... https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-18/alan-jones-arrested-police-over-alleged-indecent-assault/104612940?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

Already, this seems like another sloppy or compromised investigation by WA Police. And two prime suspects can't or won't be summonsed to give evidence...

At last. A politician standing up for victims' families. Well done, John Quigley. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-02/serial-killers-mass-murderer-birnie-quigley-maloney-parole-wa/104552914?utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_source=abc_news_web

"This....is the worst case of corporate sexual abuse of women the world has ever known." https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-11-01/six-australians-allege-mohamed-al-fayed-sexually-assaulted-them/104546928?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link

Sorry folks, but this circus is off the road for about ten months. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10-25/reece-sturgeon-kununurra-army-depot-sentence/104513156?utm_source=abc_news_web&utm_medium=content_shared&utm_campaign=abc_news_web&utm_content=link

Apparently well-known to local police, the accused had recently been bailed - not for the first time. Confusion and misplaced concern for someone with serious mental health problems has caused another senseless tragedy.

I haven't. And that's why I've been such a grumpy old bugger for the last 20 years.

Three more Blues delisted - perhaps. https://www.afl.com.au/news/1248288/carlton-blues-delist-three-including-jack-carroll-duo-sam-durdin-matt-caroll-offered-train-on-chance

This short episode of 60 Minutes is the most harrowing and heart-breaking I have ever seen, and it should be compulsory viewing for all our law-makers. In principle, I am against the death penalty. But there are exceptions.

I’ve seen that footage of Ricky playing Bill’s mandolin a few times now, and for this old Bluegrass tragic, it still stirs the emotions. So too does this tribute by Lorraine Jordon and Carolina Road, who wrote this song about that historic night.