Just stuff. Yeah, but when you have harbored it for decades it poses a mythical quality, telling the tale of one’s life through objects. I still have a storage space filled with boxes, too much to digest at once, and too much for the square footage in my house. So Trevor, my son, came up with a brilliant solution when he said, “Mom, why don’t you just take one box a week out of there and go through it an deal with it?” Huzzah! So that is my new plan. It might still take a while, but it will get done, I swear it will. I am still shocked at really how little one NEEDS! I am still bound and determined to pare it down to the bare minimum. Someone shared the sentiment that at some point with too much stuff, it owns you rather than the other way around.

Of course, the lack of stuff is the lot of the rambler, too. Lincoln Durham captures the sentiment in the song ‘Mud Puddles.” Lincoln is really coming into his own as this year marked the release of his amazing album, The Shovel VS. The Howling Bones. The album was produced by Ray Wylie Hubbard and George Reiff, a stunning work for a powerful performer who can recreate the mood all by his lonesome on stage. There are Texas dates this summer, before Lincoln heads to the UK in September. Go see him, I promise he will entrance you. Music Fog captured Lincoln Durham at Threadgill’s WHQ in March of 2011. “Mud Puddles” can be found on the new album; today we bring you the Music Fog recording of it.

-Jessie Scott