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Adam Van Winkle
@vanwinkle.bsky.social
founder & editor @cowboyjamboree.bsky.social; curator @npcountrycovers.bsky.social; curator @ArtArk.bsky.social; author Dylan Quick is a Dairy Queen Don Quixote & more; Minor Regional Novelist

www.adamvanwinkle.com

www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
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Born on this day in 1922: the great Kurt Vonnegut.

My 11th grade English teacher threw me a Vonnegut book and said "YOU-read this ONE." He's my first literary love and he's why I wanted to be a writer.

The postcard Vonnegut sent me when I wrote him to ask a bunch of questions:
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
This collection is knockout. Thalia Larry McMurtry knockout.
November 11, 2025 at 4:12 PM
Covering Barthelme, Carver, and Berlin in my American lit course this week. Good week.
November 11, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Anyone else’s 7th grade English teacher make this one part of the curriculum?
November 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
If you see this post an album cover with a motor vehicle
November 9, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Born on this day in 1951: the great and fascinating harmonica player, Mickey Raphael.

Here is is goin nuts with Willie on @acltv.bsky.social:
m.youtube.com/watch?v=Qn8A...
Willie Nelson on Austin City Limits "Bloody Mary Morning" (1974)
YouTube video by AustinCityLimitsTV
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November 7, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Been a bear of a week, but it's Friday y'all.
November 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
This one mirror at school always makes me double take because I feel like it makes my head look giant. Then I always reflect on how I’m always not really sure what I look like. Is this a common feeling?
November 6, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Of course Spin #1 today is Guy.

This was released earlier this year. It's a 1970 Houston coffee shop performance recording. Pretty interesting mix of his early originals (including "Step Inside My House") and some covers of Dylan and other folk stuff.
November 6, 2025 at 1:12 PM
She standin' on the gone side of leavin'
She found a thumb and stuck it in the breeze
She'll take anything goin' close to somewhere
She can lay it down and live it like she'd please

Born on this day in 1941: all time great, Guy Clark.
November 6, 2025 at 11:04 AM
"I hate endings. Just detest them. Beginnings are definitely the most exciting, middles are perplexing and endings are a disaster..."

Born on this day in 1943: the brilliant Sam Shepard.

Where do you start? It's all good. MOTEL CHRONICLES, BURIED CHILD, PARIS, TX...
November 5, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Many thanks Don't Rock the Inbox and @natalieweiner.bsky.social! Been way to long since I listened to some James Talley. (Y'all subscribe to them for such handy reminders).

Spin #2 today: www.dontrocktheinbox.com/james-talley...
James Talley On 50 Years of 'Got No Bread, No Milk, No Money, But We Sure Got A Lot Of Love'
The veteran singer-songwriter talks with DRTI about his timeless debut, and the half-century since.
www.dontrocktheinbox.com
November 5, 2025 at 3:48 PM
And it's six in the morning
Gave me no warning, I had to be on my way
Well, there's trucks all a-passing me, and the lights all a-flashin'
I'm on my way home from your place

Spin #1 today is @tomwaits:
November 5, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Focusing on singer-songwriters in my American Lit II class this week. Better believe this is on the list.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgsS...
November 4, 2025 at 6:11 PM
She said, "If you're from Texas, son
Then where's your boots and where's your gun?"
I smiled and said, "I got guns no one can see"
We laughed at that and both agreed
Spanish is a lovin' tongue
But she never spoke Spanish to me

Spin #1 is a @therealjoeely.bsky.social gem that never gets old:
November 4, 2025 at 1:07 PM
When we took our 4-year-old for his yearly checkup here in South Carolina, the questionnaire asked how many sweet teas he had a day. 0 was not an option.

We went to Chicagoland this summer & I ordered an “unsweet iced tea.” The waitress was like, “So, you mean regular ice tea?”
November 4, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Album artwork by Terry Allen.
November 3, 2025 at 9:39 PM
And the highway’s your mainline, highway’s a snake
Hard as a habit, gone bad is to break

Just go sailing on through, sailing on through, sailing on through...

Spin #1 today is JUST LIKE MOBY DICK:
November 3, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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Release date: November 7, 2025
Pre-save: 30tgrs.ffm.to/earlymorning...

Rack'em Records
Thirty Tigers
Photo by Barbara FG
October 26, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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On a gathering storm comes a tall handsome man
In a dusty black coat with a red right hand

James Gedda & the Big Breakfast do Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds.
Happy Halloween, friends! Here's The Big Breakfast & I playing one of our favorite spooky songs, Nick Cave's "Red Right Hand."

youtu.be/waiVU1FYdzY
"Red Right Hand" James Gedda & The Big Breakfast (Nick Cave cover)
YouTube video by James Gedda
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November 1, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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In the night forlorn
Ah, the morning's born
And the morning shines
With the lights of love
You will miss sunrise
If you close your eyes
That would break
My heart in two

Lyle does Townes: m.youtube.com/watch?v=_7_B...
November 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The incomparable Kinky Friedman was born on this day in 1944. Remember when Cowboys Jamboree did a whole issue inspired by the Kinkster’s life and detective fiction?

A Case of Kink: www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com/issue-101-a-...
ISSUE 10.1: A CASE OF KINK
ISSUE 10.1: A CASE OF KINK The world lost songwriting and mystery writing great Kinky Friedman this year.  Our fall issue is a nod to his one of kind, quirky mystery fiction. Enjoy these 10 offbeat...
www.cowboyjamboreemagazine.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:14 PM
Kiss her on the forehead
Asked her how she slept
She says, 'honey, it's so early
Probably shouldn't speak yet'

Born on this day in 1957: the great @lylelovett.bsky.social.

m.youtube.com/watch?v=S_E5...
Lyle Lovett: In My Own Mind
YouTube video by lylelovettdotcom
m.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Looking forward to checking this one out.
Excited to finally apply to all these film festivals. Looking forward to it. Hope to see and meet you all. We'll see how it goes.

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THE MAN WITH THE BIG HAT
www.themanwiththebighatfilm.com
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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Joe Ely - on Austin City Limits Halloween 1984
YouTube video by MusicFromTV1990s
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October 31, 2025 at 3:15 PM