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***FULL COLOR ILLUSTRATIONS***Jeff Worley, guitarist and founding member for the multi-platinum selling rock band, Jackyl has put in over 25 years on the road as a professional musician. Along with selling millions of records he and his band also hold two Guinness World Records and have been featured on two television shows, TruTV's "The Full Throttle Saloon" and Adult Swim's "Squidbillies". Jeff makes his first foray into the world of writing, chronicling some of his craziest endeavors and experiences. Pull up a chair and get ready for some unsavory laughs.**BLACK AND WHITE VERSION IS ALSO AVAILABLE AT A LOWER COST.

As in his first two books--The Only Time There Is, which won the Mid-List Press First Series Award for Poetry, and A Simple Human Motion, published by Larkspur Press -- Worley's fearless, funny, and contemplative poems embody a memory that is attentive to detail, faithful to inflection, and always open to embellishment in the retelling.

Praise for Jeff Worley's Poetry The Only Time There Is "Jeff Worley has carefully seasoned his considerable talent and fidelity to his craft, and his poetic voice now rewards us with this fine and various volume of poems on the enduring subjects-the living, the dead, and the human events that move us through our time." -Paul Zimmer "Jeff Worley's deceptively simple narratives evoke an affirmative generosity of spirit. This is an alluring and unforgettable first book."-Ron Wallace "Though it's the delicate, yet hard-edged love poems that I love best in this wonderful debut, there are pleasures on every page." -Stephen Dunn Happy Hour at the Two Keys Tavern "Jeff Worley is a poet of uncommon precision, whose sense of detail reminds me of the 'perfect pitch' of certain musicians-so that his poems seem to glow with an inner light, with the aura of a thing looked at with such love and attention it becomes a projection of the speaker's most inner self. This fine collection evokes the exhilaration provided by only the most accomplished and serious art. -Michael Van Walleghen "Each poem in this collection is carefully crafted, built on a foundation of vigorous diction, acute perception and quiet epiphany. Worley's voice is measured and sure . . . a voice worth hearing." -The Wichita Eagle

Winner of The 2012 X. J. Kennedy Poetry Prize, selected by Sandra Beasley “In A Little Luck, Jeff Worley presents that rarest of commodities—a voice encyclopedic in its attentions, clever, self-aware, and deeply likeable. Worley’s humor throughout is dark and smart, his phrasings elegant. I would give A Little Luck to the reader who loves the work of Ted Kooser or Rodney Jones. I’d give this book to the reader who does not yet realize he loves poetry.” —Sandra Beasley Final Judge THE DAY AFTER MY DEATH —after lines by Michael Van Walleghen The moon, stars and weather will happen as they always have, though surely with my breath gone the wind, in some slight measure, will falter. Absent my footsteps the earth will feel along its spine a momentary shiver of abandonment. And my friends? Won’t they gather with me again, in whatever purple- swagged room, for wine and stories, some of them nearly impossibly true? Meanwhile, the mailman, humming like a bee in a blossom, will slip my name into the metal box: an unsigned note from The Paris Review saying, simply, Sorry.

Poetry. Award-winning poet Jeff Worley returns with a chapbook of short poems, several previously published but all brought together here for the first time. The result is a distillation of his ever-present wit and scattered bits of wisdom accumulated over seventy years, a spirit as pure and clear and bracing as any backwoods liquor. In some poems he fondly recalls his parents, into whose lives he landed "like a sack / of old socks on their shoulders," and his Kansas boyhood. In others he laments the indignities of age, such as the loss of memory, the appearance of mysterious spots, or the waitress who tells him his eyes are beautiful, only to add "Ya know, you remind me of my grandfather." (Ouch!) In between we are treated to Worley's thoughts and observations on a number of topics, a reminder that some of the best poems are indeed LUCKY TALK, the title borrowed from William Stafford who described poems as "pieces of talk, savored and sustained." Here that talk ranges over cats and snowflakes, deer and quilting bees, UFOs and turtle shells, a declaration of faith and the "cosmic observation" that "The stars increase their twinkling / the more I increase my drinkling." In the end, these poems are a feat not unlike that of Eunice Winkless and her 1905 ride on the back of a diving horse, "determined to take / the whole whooping crowd with / her, make them never forget..." Prepare to do some whooping, as Worley rides these words. You won't forget them.

A career-spanning selection of verse from the award-winning emeritus Kentucky State Poet Laureate Jeff Worley Robert Frost famously celebrated his appointment as Poet Laureate of Vermont with the question "Breathes there a bard who isn't moved / When he finds his verse is understood / And not entirely disapproved / By his country and his neighborhood?"As if in answer, the title of emeritus Kentucky Poet Laureate Jeff Worley's new volume of poetry, selected from his six previous full-length collections, makes reference to his Lexington, Kentucky home of many decades, where it is very clear that his verse indeed is celebrated by his neighborhood and well beyond. That's because Worley is a peoples' poet, whose verse is instantly accessible and relatable; but while he often writes with a humorous touch (really, his poem about his wife Linda and him batting an opossum around their kitchen, stark naked in the middle of the night, is worth the price of admission!), make no mistake ñ he is very serious about his craft, and his light lines carry a great weight of feeling (see his poems about his parents). Often that feeling is for nature and animals ñ indeed, the true POET LAUREATE OF AURORA AVENUE is revealed to be a spider dozing in her web, "hoping for / some small attention / a captive audience of one."Prepare to be made captive yourself, because like this spider Worley weaves an entrancing web, gossamer fine, of well-wrought words, words enhanced here with lovely illustrations by Laura Lee Cundiff. "Jeff Worley is a poet's poet. He is a veteran practitioner of what a functioning and fruitful poem should look, taste, and feel like. His work seems motivated not by what he thinks editors want to publish but by what people want to read, something that gives us a fresh angle of perception on the world as he sees it but one that is recognizable in our common experience. His poems are couched in language that breathes vitality.... There is a generosity of spirit in these poems, a trait it would behoove all of us to admire and imitate."--from the Introduction by Richard Taylor, Kentucky Poet Laureate 1999-2000 On The Only Time There Is: "Though it's the delicate, yet hard-edged love poems that I love best in this wonderful debut, there are pleasures here on every page."--Stephen Dunn, winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in Poetry "Jeff Worley's deceptively simple narratives evoke an affirmative generosity of spirit. This is an alluring and unforgettable first book."--Ron Wallace "Jeff Worley is a poet of uncommon precision, whose sense of detail reminds me of the 'perfect pitch' of some musicians--so that his poems seem to glow with an inner light, with the aura of a thing looked at with such love and attention it becomes a projection of the speaker's most inner self."--Michael Van Walleghen Poetry.

Jeff Worley and Roman Glick of the multi-platinum selling rock band, Jackyl have put together a fun and factual guide to exercise, fitness and eating healthy on the road.Peek into the personal lives of what it's like to be a rockstar and maintain a six pack no matter what your age! Fun fact: Did you know? What crazy ingredient is in commercial white bread? Close your pie hole, step on your tread mill and get ready for some healthy and hilarious recipes and fitness routines. ***UNSIGNED FULL COLOR