Founding Allman Brothers band drummer Butch Trucks has just launched a new blog. “The World According to Butch Trucks” contains headers that suggests the content areas will focus on music, politics, current events, philosophy and literature. The introductory post offers some brief biographical and then goes on to discuss the current state of American politics.

The initial blog post opens, “I was raised a devout Southern Baptist in the beautiful town of Jackass Flats (better known as Jacksonville, Florida). Growing up, if the church doors were open, my young ass was in it, no questions asked. Worst of all I bought, lock, stock and barrel all of the dogmatic propaganda that was being shoved into my as yet unformed noggin. In 1965 I finally left home and headed off to the booming metropolis of Tallahassee and Florida State University where I was to spend about a year and a half majoring in staying out of Vietnam…”