Contents
One Man’s Sanctuary in Opelika, Alabama
Confession in a Booth at the Hollow Log Lounge
A Local Doc, over Rocky Lunchtime Bourbon, Speaks of Barter and Hopeful Home Remedies
Charlene Sperry on Safe Beauty
Flat-footing on Bluegrass Night: Dorsey Hostetter Explains It All to a Stranger
He Gets Nostalgic in the Hollow Log Lounge Just Before Friday Night’s Last Call
Pick It, Squirrel: Steve Gresham Sees the Light
Theology in the Hollow Log
Wade Seego Believes Soylent Green Is People
A Cosmological Discovery in the Hollow Log Lounge
Tull Jackson’s Slow Confession
In Horsehide Shoes, Fleur Hobbs Eats Cheese, Drinks Irish Beer, and Laments the Nature of Her One Arrest
Break Time: Herman Wiggins Just About Says It All to a Fledgling Who Hopes Swing Music Turns the Local Girls to Carnal Dreams
Getting Cleared: The Cosmetologist Recounts Her Recent High-Noon Ordeal
Cadmon Dabney from Whitby Corners on How He Made His Song
Dew Stuart’s Break through on the Jew’s Harp
Oxford Stroud Recollects Fishing with Electricity
The Phyllis
After One Straight Jack Too Many, the Salesman Waxes Wild
Politics and Vodka in the Hollow Log Lounge
Cowgirl
Zydeco Washboard, the Confession of Johnny Smooth
A Putative Country Star Rebukes His Exit Escort
Twang Chic: Sam Buckhannon Explores the Latest Fashion
Country Music
One-Eye Remembers Silver Queen
James Lee Bucky Declines the Offer
Leaving the Kmart 4-for-$1 Photo Portrait Booth, Junior Martin Flirts with Madness beyond the BlueLight Special and Rumors of Joy
Miller
He Has Seen More Than He Bargained For
Working Up a Thirst in the Hollow Log Lounge
March, and Mae Fields Tells the Most Recent Miracle She Sort of Saw
Goatsucker: Dillard Ramsey Admits to His Suspicions
Jane Lagrone Rejects a Tract En Route to Happy Hour
Sheriff Matt Whitlock Confesses to a Lesson in Zen after Hours
The End: Sam Buckhannon’s Lament as Told to Pattie Holcey