A selection of the spooky, macabre and uncanny. If you’ve got any suggestions, put ’em in the comments and I’ll add to the roll call. * There’s some things in this world you just can’t … [Read more...] about Frontier Partisans Halloween Playlist

  Just like the songs I leave behind me I'm gonna live forever now — Billy Joe Shaver * A pair of desperadoes jumped the long black train just a few days apart. Jerry Jeff Walker and Billy Joe Shaver have gone up the outlaw trail. Sure, they were hard-livin’ hardcore troubadours, and no one — least of all them — would have expected … [Read more...] about They’re Gonna Live Forever

The following concludes Lane Batot’s Halloween season guest post on lupine shapeshifting. Okay, now on to that one exception of lupine characteristics not exhibited by true werewolves, which leads us to Myth Number 2. You see, the transformation to a WOLF, with a competent shape-shifter, is complete EXCEPT for the EYES. Again and again … [Read more...] about The Truth About Werewolves — Part II

The following is a Halloween-season guest post from Lane Batot, Ranger of the North Carolina Woods. With the upcoming Halloween landing on a Saturday (something that heralded an all-nighter neighborhood rampage in my youth, with no school attendance to have to drag in to the following day), AND a Full Moon, which is also a Blue Moon (being … [Read more...] about The Truth About Werewolves — Part I

Well, I don’t really have the words to express how pleased and honored I am to have my song Charlie Russell Sky included in Craig Rullman’s forthcoming film on the life and art of Len Babb — and in this video slideshow. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oNu40_z95Yg Len’s art is directly inspired by the work of the great cowboy artist Charles M. … [Read more...] about Charlie Russell Sky

I love and respect good graphic designers. A huge part of the appeal of The Nugget Newspaper is down to the stellar design work Jess Draper contributes week in and week out. The good looks of Frontier Partisans and my book Warriors of the Wildlands has nothing to do with me and everything to do with the aesthetic talents of Lynn Woodward. So … [Read more...] about 40 Lashes For Egregious Anachronism

We’re on a Frontier Partisans roll with severed heads this month. (Sorry). Couldn’t let the ghoulish season pass without touching on at least one more episode of frontier decapitation: the gruesome and well-deserved end of Arkansas Dave Rudabaugh. * Dave Rudabaugh was no damn good. He was a rustler, a mean drunk and a killer — one of a … [Read more...] about Arkansas Dave Loses His Head

No October is complete without a viewing of Tim Burton’s dreamlike Sleepy Hollow. It is Clan Cornelius’ favorite cinematic tale of the Halloween season — and the Headless Horseman has long been my favorite icon of spookiness. Apparently, the great Frank Frazetta liked the image, too. He painted him twice: In the original Washington … [Read more...] about A Hessian Jäeger Headless Horseman

Last week, I had the opportunity to play five beautiful custom guitars hand-crafted here in Sisters. I also got a story out of it that I had not heard. That makes for a pretty good day. One of the guitars featured a top made of Tunnel 13 Redwood. Instrument-makers are known for extolling the virtues of woods with strange and sometimes … [Read more...] about Tunnel 13