I knew Don Pack when I was a teenager in the 60s. I took guitar lessons in his store back when Dellview Music was one of the few places in San Antonio where a kid could walk in, smell the wood, hear a chord ring out, and feel like music might actually be possible. Don was already the steady hand behind the counter — calm, patient, and completely uninterested in showing off.
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The Rise of Luther Grimes
By James Quillian,Economist, Political Analyst, Natural Law
There was a world‑champion hog caller named Luther Grimes. He traveled the countryside winning first‑place prize money in every contest he entered. Folks said he was unbeatable. Luther didn’t brag about it, but he was making a fine living calling hogs from one end of the state to the other.
One day a newsman stuck a microphone in his face and asked, “Luther, what’s your secret? You get those pigs excited and enthusiastic. They run to you like their lives depend on it. And all they ever get is one Oreo cookie — more often nothing at all. Do you have some kind of supernatural power?”
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There’s a strange thing happening in the world of music. The more artificial everything gets, the more folks start craving the real thing. You can already feel it in the air. AI is pumping out songs by the truckload — perfect voices, perfect timing, perfect mixes — and somehow it all feels like eating plastic fruit.
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Every now and then you run across a pair of musicians who aren’t just playing songs — they’re carrying history on their backs. That’s the case with Valerie and Benedict Turner, the husband‑and‑wife team known as the Piedmont Blūz Acoustic Duo. They travel the country (and a good bit of the world) doing something rare these days: teaching America where its music came from while entertaining folks at the same time.
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Dead Man’s Credit Card
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