Jimmy Newell

I write quite a bit about the past.

I used to think this was a weakness, exposing my inability to deal with the present. Of course, everything we read or watch or listen to is an element of the past. Even a live performance is nothing but an example of a past creation.

So, here I go again, but with a twist. It won’t be merely an exposition of how wonderful life was in the sixties or seventies, and t