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Tag: blues
1951 Blues… ~OO~
B.B. King – Vocal and Guitar Richard Sanders – Tenor Saxophone Phineas Newborn Jr. and/or Ike Turner – Piano Calvin Newborn – Guitar Possibly James Walker – Bass Unknown – Baritone Saxophone Phineas Newborn Sr. – Drums Adolph “Billy” Duncan – Tenor Saxophone Possibly Earl Forrest or Man-Son – Drums
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
Love blues…
Worship and Prayer are not about love.
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
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Blues and Soul…
Name Birthyear Deathyear Origin Primary style Ref(s) Mozelle Alderson 1904 1994 Ohio Country blues [4] Alger “Texas” Alexander 1900 1954 … More
Stranger in a Strange Land
In Exodus 2:22, Moses names his son Gershom, for “he said, I have been a stranger in a strange land.” … More
Nina Simone…
Happy birthday, Nina Simone
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
Money for nothing…
“The relationship between words and meaning is tenuous at best.
But we must deal with quantum reality and simple facts of life.”
https://youtu.be/iVpXrbZ4bnU
Take me to the waters…
https://youtu.be/AJjmX1zKzPs?list=RDAJjmX1zKzPs Take Me To The Water · Nina Simone High Priestess Of Soul ℗ Verve Label; ℗ 1967 UMG Rec. … More
We can choose peace, people and planet. Corporate wars of aggression must end!
“A leaf fluttered in through the window this morning, as if supported by the rays of the sun, a bird settled on the fire escape, joy in the task of coffee, joy accompanied me as I walked.”
~Anais Nin
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens. ” ~Jimi
“Music doesn’t lie.
If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
Music is my religion
Imagination is the key to my lyrics
The rest is painted with a little science fiction.”
~Jimi
Pool Wisdom…
“Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”
~Leonardo da Vinci
I get misty…
https://youtu.be/fxhxLub53uc?list=RDfxhxLub53uc&t=31
Oscar Peterson Trio & Ella Fitzgerald – Jazz At The Philharmonic – 1957
Hot Pepper Blues… ~OO~
“Never be afraid to raise your voice for honesty and truth and compassion against injustice and lying and greed. If people all over the world…would do this, it would change the earth.”
― William Faulkner
Merthiolate or Mercurochrome?
https://youtu.be/b6MaPiR4ucE?list=RDb6MaPiR4ucE
Nina Simone Rare Footage & concert Film
Bewitching Dreams…
https://youtu.be/3rqaMGj95BA?list=RD3rqaMGj95BA
Bewitched · Nancy Wilson
Dust my Broom
Elmore James – The Sky Is Crying –
https://youtu.be/kFn538A_yBA?list=RDkFn538A_yBA