An excerpt from my forthcoming book

WHO'S AFRAID?
An Oral Biography of Virginia Woolf
Complied by Tom Batten

PORTNOY GLADSTONE
Former Butler to the Woolf family

She would just shit her brains for Bluegrass music. Not a lot of people know that.


DAN GLINES
Guitar player for The Backwards Gulch Boys

We were invited to play a show at Woolf Mountain. They said it was an annual festival. and that we were going to be the headliners. They promised all kinds of money and stuff, so we were right excited. 
But when we got there, and there wasn't no festival at all. They had us playing in this big open air area that could have fit a hundred folks easy, but there was only one person there and it was her, Mrs. Woolf. All by her lonesome. She was wearing this weird Japanese looking robe with nothing on underneath-it was hanging loose so we could see-and she had this big sword. One of those Arab swords, I think they call them scimitars. 
We're like, hell, let's just play. So we start playing. And she starts writhing around, waving that sword in the air and all this. It was one of the strangest sights I ever saw. But it was exciting, too, 'cause she was naked and I thought maybe when we were done playing that would play out somehow. 
Anyway. We finish our first song, and we're about to get going on another one when she starts yelling. She raises the sword up over her head and she stands as still as an oak tree in summer and she yells out, "Release the Snakes!"
I think the idea was that some snakes where going to come out and she was going to fight them. But no snakes showed up, just her Butler or something, he came out looking real worried.

COSBY SCHNELL
Groundskeeper of Woolf Mountain

I was with Mrs. Woolf all day leading up to that concert. That was the first time she ever mentioned snakes to me or anyone else.

DAN GLINES

So she gets real depressed looking, and she hangs her head and walks off dragging that big blade behind her. With her gone there was no one left to play for, so we packed up. But then they wouldn't pay us, saying we didn't play a whole set so we were violating the contract.