Postcards from the Road

Doug didn’t send many cards (maybe because of his scrawl) while on tour, but took the time in Eureka, California, in 1992 to check in and make sure Shandon was being “a good boy.” He talks about seeing Charlie Sexton and the Arc Angels and frets about the heat. He escaped the Texas heat every chance he got.

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