Tag: jazz

Great Migrations

The world was settled by humans (Homo sapiens) who originated in Africa and migrated out in waves,

Feminine Blues

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

Farming

Tom Waits – “Hold On” I transplanted two sugar maple trees which had germinated themselves. I put them into small … More

Rapture

from Medieval Latin raptura “seizure, rape, kidnapping,” from Latin raptus “a carrying off, abduction, snatching away; rape”

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

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

Merthiolate or Mercurochrome?

https://youtu.be/b6MaPiR4ucE?list=RDb6MaPiR4ucE
Nina Simone Rare Footage & concert Film

Joy, Blues & Trouble: Invisible religion

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

Motherless Child Day

My Mother died at the age of 93 in the fall of 2018. I miss her and will not be … More

We lost Jerry Jeff Walker in October…

I posted this on Facebook, but they censored it. I guess Jerry Jeff cusses too much. texas monthlyguy clarkguitarmusician I … More

Blues with a feeling…

Writing, poetry, creative expression and the blues have everything to do with good, evil and the difference between.