My 10 Favorite Songs of the Last Seven Days

Car Wheels on a Gravel Road came out in 1998, and I bought it and loved it then, but it took about two years for me to really start receiving the healing that God was delivering through Lucinda Williams and her record. The perfectest of the perfect songs on it is this one, which is written in exactly the pace and manner by which I process anything hard (no matter how hard I work to go more quickly or head on at the task):

1. "2 Kool 2 Be 4-gotten," Lucinda Williams
2. Rocketman movements 1 and 2 of four, Marching Maroons during 2022 Maroon Classic
3. “Crackers," Barbara Mandrell
4. "Get a Witness," Commodores
5. "Are You Sure Hank Done It This Way?" Waylon Jennings live on Soundstage 1975
6. "I Was Country When Country Wasn’t Cool," Barbara Mandrell
7. "That’s What You Get For Loving Me," Waylon Jennings
8. "A Woman’s Kind of Man," Susan Raye
9. "Soul Train ’75," Soul Train Gang
10. “Hurricane," Bob Dylan live on PBS 1975

Oh, Kentucky

No running water in Martin County, and the Family Dollar in Warfield is out of bottled, per Taylor Frost with WYMT.

Owensboro's loss.

As Matthew noted last week, Kentucky is again a pioneer in dramatic change in the way that poor people experience healthcare coverage.

Good jobs news from Madisonville and Pikeville. 

Sweet Mark Story feature in the Lexington Herald-Leader on the unlikely friendship shared by Wes Strader and Kenny Walker.

For the fourth time, UK has won a third-straight Universal Cheerleaders Association national championship.