Ian Moore

Yall know that Republicans passed a bill that allowed insurance companies to be for profit in the 70’s, and that since then the cost of health care has soared and US health has plummeted.

This is literally one of the most f’d things happening right now. People are literally dying all the time because of this absolute bu****it.

I have been working for over a year to get approval for a drug that is used to treat SD. My neurologist has been submitting study after study showing the results. Since insurance gets to approve or deny, since they work with pharmaceuticals and everything is inflated like some Blackwater bs, this process is extremely ridiculous.

Finally, after months and months of appeals, research, collaboration, I’m approved!

Glory be!! So, I call the drug people. It turns out the prescription was approved but they only approve 30 pills. But the drug company packages the drug in 45 pill amounts. Of course, the insurance company knows this. So, they are able to approve yet not have to fulfill the prescription.

So, weeks go by. Insurance finds excuse after excuse. It gets to the point where the medical team tells me point blank that they can tell insurance is obfuscating on purpose.

We are on my wife’s insurance, and she is changing jobs, so our insurance ends at the end of the month.

Insurance should never be for profit.. this is basic ethics. Putting people’s health in a model where companies make money on it will never have good outcomes. It is like having a petro chemical company with only an internal review of environmental cleanliness.

Im pi**ed, but thankfully my life isn’t dependent on it. But, what makes me so angry is that so many people’s lives are.

We are celebrating 30 years of this record, and it’s wonderful to be able to look back on such a wild time and share it.

The heart of it was a reclamation of many things that were spinning beyond our control.
I got into music wanting to dig deep into culture and try to grab art. I found much of that early in the study of the infinite and deep dive of the blues. But most of what I loved about that music and culture was unique to a small world around me, and quickly got distorted as money and power came into the picture.

I met Terry Allen the first time in Lubbock at my first Joe Ely “hometown” show. Bukka wasn’t playing with me yet, but I felt something really familiar in who he was and what he was about. I loved how uncompromising he was, and over the next couple of years, I got to know him, as well as many of the artists that circulated that world.
This time felt like recapturing something that I had before the record deals and all the stuff, when I could really speak for myself with music.
I can’t stress how important it was for me, not just in discovering who I wanted to be as an artist, but in discovering who I wanted to be as a human.
This record was the first of an important schism. It pi**ed a lot of people off, including the label. Lots of fans were confused. But, as a band, we felt more solidified and in step than ever before.

The front and back covers are sculptures of Terrys on a ranch in Northern California. They speak so well for the songs that live inside.

Hey friends! I know we will see many of you at the shows in a couple of weeks, but for those of you who can’t make it, we are selling these also on the website. Design by and deep thanks to for putting it all together.

I have to get the Botox shots every 3 months. They barely work on me and it’s no fun having a needle through your throat.
Gotta put some frosting on the frog cake, so I make it a field trip and do some stocking up on some of my favorite foods. We are lucky to have a fresh chinese noodle shop downtown, so I always pick up some Sha ho fun. I found a new Vietnamese market and checked them out. Pad see ew tonight, or as the kids would say it “Pad see ew again??” And then gonna try some pho tai tomorrow

Lots of shows coming up. I’ll get back to talking towns soon enough