Month: June 2024

Chicken Coop Blues

https://youtu.be/mZnrRefY-UA
The Dominoes – CHICKEN BLUES – 1951

Summertime Blues

“Summertime Blues”, it is said, took Eddie Cochran and Jerry Capehart just 45 minutes to write. Three verses about a teenager cursed by the fact that instead of cruising with his girlfriend, he has to spend the summer working, set to one of rock music’s first great guitar riffs. It was just an E, an A and a B7, but three chords were all Cochran needed.

Indigenous Blues

“Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. Even before there were large numbers of Negroes on our shore, the scar of racial hatred had already disfigured colonial society.”

Invisible Religion

“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe

What’s goin’ on…

on the day before his 45th birthday, Gaye was shot and killed by his father, Marvin Gay Sr., at their house in Western Heights, Los Angeles

Myths, magic, mystery and fairy tales

There is an outdated theory that fairy folklore evolved from folk memories of a prehistoric race:
newcomers superseded a body of earlier human or humanoid peoples

John Lennon

Lennon’s work included music, writing, drawings, and film. His songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney remains the most successful in history.
https://youtu.be/zOTvm1i62Ys
Discovering John Lennon

Bob Dylan… 1961-2024

The growing folkie first gained a notable reputation whilst going by the name of Elston Gunn as well as variations on his birth name such as Robert Allen. However, it was on Bob Dylan that he would eventually settle.

Ending World War Three

they can switch gears and work to create a prosperous but neutral Ukraine, one that does not threaten Russia and allows the West to repair its relations with Moscow. With that approach, all sides would win.

Newest Holocaust is Ongoing…

With the CIA attacks on Ukraine, finally Putin intervened to stop this carnage. Russia, the most attacked nation in history, had not forgotten.

Education in America

“The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious – the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science.”
― Albert Einstein

Billy Preston…

Born: September 2, 1946, Houston, TX
Died: June 6, 2006 (age 59 years), Arizona
Music groups: Plastic Ono Band (1970 – 1970), Ringo Starr & His All-Starr Band (1989 – 2000)
Genres: R&B/Soul, Hip-Hop/Rap, Holiday
Parents: Robbie Lee Williams