Everlast (aka Whitey Ford) was born in the Long Island town I grew up in, Valley Stream. Most people know him as the former frontman from House of Pain or for his track on Santana's Supernatural. His latest work, Love, War and the Ghost of Whitey Ford will be released next month, but "Letters Home From the Garden of Stone" has been out of a while as a promotional advance. It's an apolitical look at war from the point of view of a soldier stuck in the middle of it. Doesn't relate much to the happy talk we get from the bipartisan McCain and Lieberman Show.