Sometimes the bologna was fried - 4069

Holiness churches and honky tonks, backsliding and Electric Sliding, hardy guffaws, wannabe outlaws and a shouting man of God with polydactyly. And don’t forget the Elvis impersonators, the foot washers, and the preacher’s dentures scooting across the church floor like a hockey puck with a Polident glow. No, you didn’t take a wrong turn in Wewahitchka, Florida, and end up at Billy Blackman’s house. You are inside the pages of his book, Sometimes The Bologna Was Fried. From this juke joint guitar picker, newspaper editor and horse farrier, comes a poignant and funny collection of stories about life as a preacher’s kid, his guitar and his dream of bright stages inside dim honky tonks. Writing with keen observation and insightful humor, Blackman explores enduring similarities between smoky bars and pulpit guitars. There are many ways to experience the lessons and humor in this book—humor that sometimes smacks of wry whiskey. It can be taken on strictly the story level—reading the surface words that will make you laugh or cry or tilt your head sideways at the funny, almost inexplicable, things the characters do. But there is a much deeper level. The author introduces you to his daddy, “That preacher man with six fingers on each hand,” a hardworking, roaring Disciple of Decibel, God-fearing man who smelled like Old Spice and paper mill smoke. He could throw scriptural bricks from the pulpit and thump sinners who had old merriment and new Marlboros on their breath and have them ducking between the pews while he sent the Devil scrambling for the parking lot to get some relief from the heat. In this book, Blackman shares these stand-alone, unique stories. And what a gift that is for his readers.
ASIN: B0CLZFYSV9
VSKU: BVV.B0CLZFYSV9.VG
Condition: Very Good
Author/Artist:Blackman, Mr Billy Paul
Binding: Paperback