Deep-Fired America News is proud to have sent ace music reporter Lincoln Koufax into the Middle Lands for frontline coverage of those Elvis sightings last August. Koufax had been award-winning since his teen years back in the early days of the 21st for his deep dive into the implications of The King near the end of his life back in the middle of the 20th century. Music was still becoming the force that it is now. Koufax says that what he discovered in his trip into the heart of The Middle Lands can’t fully be divulged yet, but promises to let us all know when he has completed the book he is writing.
“It’s complicated,” he notes. “What happened back then was not easy to understand or digest. I’m still researching that summer month so long ago. Also, I’m in touch with virtually everyone involved, working on ferreting out little pieces of the whole story from as many perspectives as I can. One thing I’ll tell you is that we were not looking to find what we found. None of us.”
Lincoln Koufax is a graduate of Rock Bridge High School in Columbia, Missouri and posted his first music journalism with the encouragement of faculty members in the J-School at the University of Missouri. His father was a star halfback and punt returner at MU in the 1990s and played for the Cleveland Browns for two years before injury cut his career short. His mother taught piano and saxophone at the Cleveland Conservatory and then Missouri for nearly 30 years. Like so many over the years, neither parent can be reached or traced and have, according to Koufax himself, escaped the grid and moved to the American Northwest.
He has interviewed and reported on artists and athletes such as Causwell Hawkins, Fat-Nature Hoolihan, King Jones, Elly Steingberg, Bill Cosby, Phyllis Musk, OJ Simpson, Jeff Bezos, and the reclusive artist Rita Scattergood herself.