Since I started my blog I have received a couple of questions about Nome, Alaska…

To be clear, I am not, nor have I ever been, from Nome, Alaska.

I was in a great band as a teenager. Really good. Played three or four nights a week all around Louisiana and East Texas. Every night the members of the band were introduced to the audience.

One night my brother introduced me as being from Nome, Alaska. It was funny to those of us who knew better. And it stuck.

It has become a kind of talisman for good luck during a performance. A “break a leg,” of sorts.

When I had not created a “Who am I?” page for the blog my wife took it into her own hands and created the page. I have not changed it and I have no plans to do so.

I was born in New Orleans, have lived in Baton Rouge, LA; Jackson, MS; Slidell, LA; Garland, TX; Waco, TX; Plano, TX; San Antonio, TX; Katy, TX; Austin, TX and back to Baton Rouge, LA. Nowhere north of the Dallas area — and nowhere close to Nome, Alaska.

But I am still Jeffrey Skaggs from Nome, Alaska.