Update on the Book

This has been sitting idle long enough, and now that clouds have parted and the future is marginally more clear, it seems a perfect time to pick it up again.

As you might have guessed, this blog is designed to sort of augment the forthcoming book, "The Gilded Palace of Sin" which is being published as part of Continuum's 33 1/3 book series. I should start here by mentioning that, following certain snags, the book is definitely being published, although not, as originally planned, in April and not, as secondarily planned, in July. In point of fact, the book will be out in late September, just sneaking in under the wire of my looming thirtieth birthday.

The original plan for this blog was to cover aspects leading up the release and subsequent tour, but since those have been pushed back and I'm biologically incapable of doing nothing for five minutes, over the summer this blog will serve as a sort of series of appendices to the book proper. As anyone who's ever embarked on a research project with a length or time constriction can probably tell you, plenty of stuff ends up on the cutting room floor. Last year was a flurry of books and music, a fraction of which made it into the 150 pages you'll see in the fall. Until plans for the release and tour start amping up again, this is where I'll be coming to talk about (and post) old country music, other important albums and issues associated with the fusion of country and rock music and a lot of .the images that, for copyright reasons, I just can't use in the book. Yep, it's a total vanity project. Hope you enjoy and even if you don't, we'll see you in the fall.