Stasia Shepard

Maybe if you tell me about them, you'll feel better.

Because I'm wondering what all he would have told me.

But he lived for a little bit in the nursing home.

That was the last time that I visited him.

Dick Scott, Hickey Free, Clem Hawley, Johnny Rebel, Dixon Hall, Gene Gilmore, Dick Gleason, Paul Lester, Richard Alexander, Albert Riley, Joe Graham, Richard James Hawkins.

So he was working on things.

He was working on, I didn't know what.

Well, it's weird to see the whole thing and how much work he actually put into it.

Because after I realized how much my father fabricated on various things from, you know, he just was a compulsive liar.

Sometimes he would make things up and I couldn't figure out why.

Why did you lie about that?

Why didn't you brag about the songs you actually wrote?

Why did you say you wrote Blue Christmas or whatever?

And so I became kind of jaded, and I began to think that maybe the whole project, the encyclopedia, was not even worth thinking about at all.

I loved my dad, but I kind of rolled my eyes whenever I thought about these projects, because so much smoke and mirrors around it.

Your father is a crook.