Our Last Days On Earth

So Melp, watcha readin' these days? Yeah, like I ever hear that sentence directed towards me. But in case the thought might have crossed y'alls minds, I just got my copy of legendary New York biographer Nick Tosches' book Where Dead Voices Gather, the story of the American minstrel show performer Emmett Miller, a man who despite his black-faced routine possessed an incredible falsetto yodel and a style that influenced country, jazz, and even rock and roll (everyone from Hank Williams to Van Halen have covered Miller's tunes) and a back up band The Georgia Crackers that included the likes of Jimmy Dorsey, Tommy Dorsey, Eddie Lang, and Gene Krupa.