Fiction, Music, and Scholarly Works

Writing

  • The Little Green Men Murders

    Jim Guthrie is back. This time, Louisville’s contemporary Philip Marlowe must rescue a documentary filmmaker who has been kidnapped at the annual “Little Green Men Festival” in—wait for it—Hopkinsville, Kentucky.

  • Hotwalker

    When police fail to solve the murder of a Guatemalan groom on the backside of Churchill Downs during the Kentucky Derby festival, the victim’s hotwalker son hires local private investigator Jim Guthrie to bring the killer to justice.

  • Journeyman

    Pate Merwin both uses his head and longs for magic in resolving his questions about how-to-live meaningfully (and simply how to survive).

Music

  • It’s Always About You

    co-created and performed with David Sisk

  • Later Than You Think

    co-created and performed with David Sisk

I was lead singer and frontman for “Flashback,” a local classic rock and blues cover band, for 15 years, in several different iterations and names including “Too Much Fun.”

No Class” was a faculty band I was in at Jeff High. Doug Underwood created both the Flashback sign and the No Class poster.