Category: music

Siberian Cats… and other cats…

The Ocelot is the only tame mid-size cat, but they are becoming hard to find…

Feminine Blues

Blues women who created their own pedestals… Bessie Smith (“Empress of the Blues”): The most popular female blues singer of … More

Nina Simone

Simone was a singer, songwriter, pianist, arranger and civil rights activist

Bessie Smith Blues

https://thepeaceresource.com/2022/05/25/transgender-dysphoria-blues/
Besides male and female, there are 72 other genders

Let them pout when we call them out.

“Peace has never come from dropping bombs. … The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace. … Most people are prisoners, thinking only about the future or living in the past. They are not in the present, and the present is where everything begins.”
~Carlos Santana

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There is an outdated theory that fairy folklore evolved from folk memories of a prehistoric race:
newcomers superseded a body of earlier human or humanoid peoples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

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

Highway 61

Now the fifth daughter on the twelfth night
Told the first father that things weren’t right
My complexion she said is much too white
He said come here and step into the light, he says hmm you’re right
Let me tell the second mother this has been done
But the second mother was with the seventh son
And they were both out on Highway 61

Stardust

https://youtu.be/_T6WKdrxzyY?t=9 Willie Nelson / Stardust                               … More

Chocolate…

Eating one piece of chocolate at a time… https://youtu.be/mb1uesaHOzA?list=RDmb1uesaHOzA Howlin’ Wolf – Chocolate Drop may not be about strength or … More

1930s… Hot Blues, Cool Jazz and Big Bands…

Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington

Good Morning Blues

From fighting segregation with Woody Guthrie to joining with blind harmonica player Sonny Terry on the road, from being chosen as the successor to Blind Boy Fuller to sharing a New York cold water flat with Leadbelly, Brownie tells and plays the story of his life

If we don't end war, war will end us.

Voting for Evil no longer an option. ~OO~

All of us are more than fed up with mediocrity, hypocrisy, lesser-evil, trickle-down, less-than-perfect settling

Warlock Blues… an all that jazz…

The Warlocks were formed in Palo Alto at the end of 1964

Beatles 1962-1977

https://youtu.be/oI8Aw0IGM1I?list=PL4fJeg9CXdTdxSzDzGPD22YVI1oqdFxtD
The Beatles Live At Pepperland

Zig-Zag (company) blues…

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Zig-Zag is a brand of rolling papers that originated in France. https://youtu.be/Q_fqIwEevak?list=RDQ_fqIwEevakroman ott- Charly Parker TributeThe Zig-Zag brand produces … More

Abstract Truth

“… One is responsible for life: It is the small beacon in that terrifying darkness from which we come and to which we shall return.” ― James Baldwin