Wondering what happened to today’s Final Vinyl artist? What John Kilzer does with music now.

The last time John Kilzer had a record out, he was a very different person. The former Memphis State Tigers basketball player and one-time college English instructor made a brilliant debut in 1988 with Memory in the Making, a record that was supposed to catapult him to the ranks of roots rockers like John Mellencamp and Tom Petty. Instead, as Kilzer relates it, it drove him into the depths of despair, fueling a hereditary propensity toward alcoholism that landed him in jail several times.