Jesse Donaldson was born in Kentucky, educated in Texas, and lives in Oregon. He is the author of The More They Disappear and On Homesickness. He is currently on an ill-advised 120-county tour of Kentucky promoting the latter.
A Kentucky Music Issue web-exclusive liner note.
Jim Ford’s lone album is a twenty-eight minute, mystical celebration of the kid that got away—a hazy, bourbon-and-cocaine-fueled-funk-&-soul-honky-tonk cousin to Bruce Springsteen’s Born to Run.