Human beings invented whisky and god…
“The origins of whiskey can be traced back to the Medieval monks of both Ireland and Scotland: Stephen Jay Gould suggests that religion may have grown out of evolutionary changes which favored larger brains as a means of cementing group coherence among savanna hunters, after that larger brain enabled reflection on the inevitability of personal mortality.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evolutionary_origin_of_religion
Sometimes…. fervent and sincere beliefs about truth, lies, science and fiction are tiny guesses about confusion, misapprehension, bias, fear, myths and magic.
https://youtu.be/eMuzFQTpjDE?list=RDeMuzFQTpjDE
Lightnin Hopkins ~ Trouble in mind
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
The blessings we bestow upon one another, a nod,carlin
wink, hug, touch or a kind word… are more important
than prayer and more essential than worship.
The rest is commentary, art, science or fiction…
https://youtu.be/uc9yodZ29UE?list=RDuc9yodZ29UE
Jazz Is My Religion
“I shall tell you a great secret my friend. Do not wait for the last judgement, it takes place every day.”
― Albert Camus
“From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them, and that is eternity.”
― Edvard Munch
“Love is a canvas furnished by nature and embroidered by imagination.”
―Voltaire
https://youtu.be/hL5cb4ghOvM?t=117
Billie Holiday “Travelin’ light”
“Trav’lin’ Light” is a 1942 song composed by Trummy Young and Jimmy Mundy with lyrics by Johnny Mercer. In 1942, with vocals by Billie Holiday, The Paul Whiteman release lists Billie Holiday as “Lady Day”.
Billie is accompanied by Charlie Shavers (trumpet), Tony Scott (clarinet, arranger), Paul Quinichette (tenor saxophone), Wynton Kelly (piano), Kenny Burrell (guitar), Aaron Bell (bass) and Lenny McBrowne (drums). Recorded in New York City, June 6, 1956.
3/ ?/43 L.A.-Club 331; dubbed 3/22/43 Mo.-“AFRS JUBILEE”: BILLIE HOLIDAY (v) – RED ALLEN (t,v) J.C.Higginbotham (tb) Don Stovall (as) General Morgan (p) Benny Moten (b) Paul Barbarin (d) Ernie Whitman (mc) ?Art Gilmore (ann);
https://youtu.be/fxS1HIUPlv4?t=55
Donovan – Travelling Light (with John Sebastian and David Bromberg)
This is a very rare Billie Holiday interview that hasn’t been heard since it was given (presumably in the summer of 1956).
https://youtu.be/m4jU8IQK5b0
(Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans. Music by Louis Alter, lyrics by Eddie Delange. New Orleans (1947) by Arthur Lubin, with Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Zutty Singleton, Barney Bigard, Kid Ory, Bud Scott, Red Callender & Charlie Beal.
Actors : Dorothy Patrick, Arturo de Córdova, Richard Hageman.
https://youtu.be/K3AUI78bAsY?list=RDK3AUI78bAsY
The Sound Of Jazz” 12/8/1957 Papa Jo Jones, Osie Johnson, Billie Holiday, Count Basie, Lester Young
https://youtu.be/ImhUw17KpmA
J.J. Cale – Travelin’ Light
https://youtu.be/odgHMvESF-U
This video focuses on one of the two broadcasts that still exist of Lady Day on Art Ford’s critically acclaimed show, Jazz Party. Jazz Party, which debuted in May of 1958 This particular broadcast is recorded exactly one year before Lady’s death on July 17, 1958..
https://youtu.be/YA_PD3J8TEc
Travelin’ Light · Widespread Panic Light Fuse Get Away ℗ 1998 Volcano Entertainment III, L.L.C. Released on: 1998-02-05 Mixing Engineer, Producer: John Keane
Composer, Lyricist: JJ Cale Mixing Engineer: Billy Fields Recording Engineers : Danny Friedman; Brad Blettenburg; : Tim Wright
https://youtu.be/E5GWkBOPJQ8
Anita O’Day – Trav’lin’ light
https://youtu.be/TjFjurYuF2Q
Travelin’ Light · Van Morrison · Joey DeFrancesco
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