A village called Starlight on Lookout Mountain in North Alabama and an old tavern where a young girl is brought to live with her aunt, the innkeeper after her mother passes away and she finds herself among ghosts and an odd collection of myster

Episode 90 of Stories and Songs It's About the Blues

Feb 27th, 2024 14m 36s

I recently learned I am being inducted into the Alabama Blues Hall of Fame! I feel very humbled to learn this. I ain't no flashy guitarist or pianist or the most amazing songwriter/storyteller you've ever met, but I can hold my own. A lot of y

Episode 88 Man Killed by his own Trap

Feb 21st, 2024 5m 9s

A man's home keeps being broken into so he sets up some traps to stop them and falls victim to one of these...

Episode 89 Up in the Woods

Feb 21st, 2024 14m 51s

Sitting on the trail in the woods on a cold, sunny day talking about things I've seen and experienced in the woods and an excerpt from a song called...Nobody Here But Me

Man Killed by his own Trap

Oct 15th, 2023 5m 9s

A man has a problem with people in his neighborhood robbing his house. He sets some traps to stop them but stops himself instead... and a silly little song from 1926...

Episode 87 The Yunwi-usti. (Little People)

Oct 6th, 2023 12m 12s

A short talk about the Little People...

Episode 86 The Car that Fell from the Sky

Oct 3rd, 2023 6m 54s

A moonlit night and two park rangers on patrol in the Great Smoky Mountains and a car that fell from the sky!

Episode 85 Clothesline

Sep 24th, 2023 6m 56s

A story from 1931 about a clothesline that helped to snag a convict...

Episode 84 The Bone Tree

Sep 24th, 2023 7m 18s

Some bleach white bones that a very old tree has grown over and through on the side of Chandler Mountain here in North Alabama...

Episode 83 A Special Place

Sep 24th, 2023 5m 37s

A visit to a place Where I have written several stories and songs that you can find here on this podcast and Youtube...

Episode 82 The Family

Sep 9th, 2023 10m 55s

"My Grandmother took me on a walk to a secret place deep in the Redwood forest and what I saw that day I will never forget."

Episode 81 Those Darned Footprints

Sep 8th, 2023 13m 23s

The lady on the stairs...Fuller Brushes...a stranger in a bed...travelers on the porch...and those darned footprints with a little tune entitled Train to Birmingham!

Episode 80 A Treasure Returns

Sep 6th, 2023 12m 3s

An episode about lost treasures and a wedding band that returned on the wind with a song from the 1920s called.....I Found a Dream

EPISODE 79 The Indian School

Aug 24th, 2023 10m 16s

A Story about one of the Mission Schools established to educate Native American children and some ghosts who haunt the site...and a verse from my song entitled Trail of Tears...

Episode 78 The Virginia Creeper

Aug 23rd, 2023 10m 57s

A Story about a boy named Robbie and his annual summer visit with his aunt and uncle where he first hears of the Virginia Creeper and is convinced it is going to get him!

Episode 77 Lantern in the Woods

Aug 22nd, 2023 8m 47s

A story about a mysterious light we saw in the woods one night and a verse from a song called Porch Light...

Episode 76 of Stories and Songs Hank Jones, Accidental Ghost

Oct 27th, 2022 10m 3s

The misadventures of three boys who went up on Lookout Mountain to try and see the Union Soldiers on their march to Chattanooga and a boy named Hank Jones who lost his life on the side of the mountain.

Episode 75 of Stories and Songs The Four Eyed Bandit

Oct 25th, 2022 11m 48s

A stagecoach robber, a constable and some stolen goods leads to the arrest of a man who later becomes a well know author who committed his crimes for the experience so that he could write his books!

Episode 74 of Stories and Songs Bosco the Gorilla

Oct 20th, 2022 15m 18s

An escaped gorilla from a circus that came into town by train and his disappearance on Lookout Mountain during the days of the Scopes Trial up in Tennessee, and an answer to the question about whatever happened to Bosco.