Ronnie Hawkins's The Long Corner: Arkansas/Alabama

I spent last Thursday night watching a Ronnie Hawkins documentary. I spent Saturday afternoon at an Arkansas Razorback watch party. In the time in between those two events, I observed the build up of the large community of Natural State ex-pats with whom I work, live and carouse. From then through the end of the game, one line from The Hawk, another Razorback in exile, kept coming into my mind:

"The Big Time is right around the corner.' They told me that for the first time in 1952. Boy, it's been a long corner. If I don't hit the Big Time in the next 25 or 30 years, I'm going to pack in the music business and become a full-time gigolo."