So you want to be the photographer
of a roots music band. To go to festivals
and concerts, vigils, elections, rallies,
private parties, weddings, jazz funerals,
to play Pier Park in Panama City Beach
and Schooners, the last local beach club.
The difference between a roadie and a groupie
is they both give blow jobs but a roadie carries an amp.
I told this to Suzette and Pretty Michelle and one of them said
I don't give blow jobs and the other one said I don't carry an amp.
I don't remember who said which. I don't get paid. I'm in it for
the glory. Rock and roll! Show business! The smell of lamb,
roasting on a spit, the pennants snapping in the breeze. Folk art flags
on galvanized tin. Justin and Billie Gaffrey and their kids.
I want to write a book about my adventures.
I'm doing it. I'm going there and writing
about it, I'm staying put. I can get
a seafood platter at Gene's Oyster Bar
in Millville with fried grouper on it.

Dwight the Potter. Big Mama's Hula Girl Gallery.
Potter called himself Potter the Dwight.
The green and purple barracuda.
An art tour of Highway 30A.