As a follow up to our June, 2025 podcast episode with songwriter Rick Gibson, I had Rick back in the studio to share an update on the Ozark Anthology Project that includes the Book of Ozark and The Life and Times of Curtis Lee (Rick’s grandfather). In THIS episode, you’ll hear a carefully curated set of “mini-sodes” and original songs that give a tantalizing taste of how this industrious project is manifesting.

As Rick says… The preservation of American cultural history through music is one way to inform, educate and captivate current and future generations. The Ozark Anthology "Book of Ozark" s just such a resource. The people, places and other things comprising this body of music, serves to preserve this vanishing legacy.

Blending history, fiction and music, "The Life andTimes of Curtis Lee" is an immersive audio drama that brings the early 20th-century America to life. We Follow Curtis from the Tennessee hills to the Ozarks — a story of trauma, endurance, and the unshakable spirit of ordinary people in extraordinary times.

We lost Tom Hall, who lends his unique voice to these songs, in October 2025. Much gratitude to Rick Gibson for reserving his grandfather’s legacy in such a tenderly and thoughtful way and for giving us one last opportunity to hear the amazing voice of Tom Hall.