Don't Make Me Do This Again!

It worked well the first time so...


I know many of you have already provided some financial help to organizations trying to provide aid to Haitian earthquake victims. After a few days it seems logistics is still a major problem, so money to contract supplies of water, food, & medical stores is the swiftest most effective assistance at the current stage.

Again, I don't have anything moving to say; there's nothing TO say. But I will be very happy to again provide FREE Jerry Hager music to those who have given support in any amount to the Red Cross Haitian Relief Fund. All you need to do is to forward your receipt from the Red Cross as in-line text [deleting the amounts & any banking info] to me at info@jerryhager.com [be sure to include your mailing address], & I'll send you a small stack of great Jerry Hager music, including unreleased new stuff!

I know that while so many are in such dire need it's difficult to 'get down' but CDs keep well for when you're ready start boogie-ing again.

Which One?

I still don't think anything about the comment but I do like how quick some people are:

Burnt, Fried, and Set Aside

While walking past the McDonald's at Vanderbilt Hospital, I overheard a middle-aged lady talking to an elderly woman with a walker.

Younger lady: "How 'bout McDonald's?"
Elderly lady: "Naw. If you eat there, you have to sit down twice."

The New Phonebooks Are Here!

I just looked my name up in the white pages & found that I am listed as
Gerald R & R Hager.

It wasn't someone else, it was me; had my address & everything. I gotta find out who I know at the phone company & buy them a beer.

A Nashville Legend Passes

Usually, people fall asleep listening to stories about other people's pets. But, then again, not that many pet credentials include 'National Recording Artist'. BB really was a session musician. His work can be heard on Tom Mason's Where Shadows Fall & the upcoming Joe Nolan album Blue Turns Black. I dog-shit you not.

Unfortunately, his last work will be released posthumously. Yesterday, we had to have him put down. He was a great friend over the last 12 years. He loved being buried in leaves & snow, having a shop-vac run over his fur, & eating walnuts. I took to him because he didn't mind the smell of my cigar. In his declining years, he was perhaps a little less affectionate, but still, the most patient dog I've ever known.

I never got him that male-symbol ID tag, but I think he had a little more class than that.

For those of you who knew him, I thought you'd like to know. For those of you who didn't, here are a few pictures of him in the studio.

Celebrity Theory #2

Ever seen these two in the same place at the same time?



Of course I can't imagine the circumstances that would result in Peter Gabriel & John Ratzenberger appearing at the same charity dinner together but I just thought I'd mention it.

Obscenes From A Mall

My decision to brave the Opry Mills Mall on Saturday was rewarded while battling the oncoming shoppers.

Middle-aged, overweight man with deep rural Tennessee accent speaking to a similarly built middle-aged man walking anxiously & attentively a half step behind:

"You see, this picks up where Busty Beach Bunnies pt.1 leaves off!"


I decided to get an Orange Julius, find a bench & relax a little. Life's too fast. Every once in a while you have to stop & eavesdrop on the locals.