Book Launch Party: Ditch Love Blues, by James Braziel

“Chuck Butterworth is a singer-songwriter-musician who’s electrically charged with a power source all his own. The wit and grit in Chuck’s lyrics let you in on some kind of inside joke and that all too familiar heartache. His originals will have you laughing, crying and wondering.” — Caine Campbell, novelist and metaphysician

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“That ditch-walking-oh-baby-boot-in-the face love! Jim Braziel sings the country blues in lyrical stories, muddy with Southern rural speech but crystal clear in the longings of complex characters who are searching, happily, unhappily, and driven. These stories are portraits of Southern Appalachian people, moving, provocative and profound.” — Anthony Grooms, author of The Vain Conversation and Bombingham.

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David Hornbuckle, novelist and mixologist extraordinaire, IS The Whiskey Thief.