"There's a Dirt Floor Underneath Here"

March 17 marks the 27th anniversary of the release of what many consider Chris Whitley’s masterpiece.

May this shovel loose your troubles
Let them fall away ….

Talk about “loos[ing] your troubles - what a turnaround! Chris Whitley had basically been left for dead along some rarely-traveled country road. Sony had signaled that it would drop him in 1996 and did so in 1997. But by Spring 1998, he had not only let his trouble fall away; he had proven the p…