by Michael Arthur

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Uncle Walt’s Band is both Austin music’s royalty and best kept secret. David Ball, Walter Hyatt and Champ Hood combined sweet harmonies, jazz, chords and Beatlesque songwriting for a unique twang that influences the Austin music scene to this day. Hyatt died in a Florida plane crash, Hood passed away from cancer a few years back (his son Warren Hood keeps his legacy alive) and David Ball became a music superstar, but if you’ve got the time and inclination seek out their few albums (compiled after the band’s dissolution); they’re breathtaking.

I love this band …

by Michael Arthur

My ambivalent American flag drawings from this week.

I’m a skeptical idealist by nature and I’ve had a tough week juggling my faith in some sort of American dream and the empirical evidence that the American dream is the opiate of the masses. I got no answers, just a head full of thinking, a pen and some paper.

Hey, baby. It’s the fourth of July