Writing, Organizing, Publishing & Creative Arts
“The whole of life itself expresses the blues. That’s why I always say the blues are the true facts of life expressed in words and song, inspiration, feeling and understanding. The blues can be about anything pertaining to the facts of life.”
Willie Dixon
How many more years, have I got to let you dog me around How many more years, have I got … More
The world was settled by humans (Homo sapiens) who originated in Africa and migrated out in waves,
Blues women who created their own pedestals… Bessie Smith (“Empress of the Blues”): The most popular female blues singer of … More
Tom Waits – “Hold On” I transplanted two sugar maple trees which had germinated themselves. I put them into small … More
from Medieval Latin raptura “seizure, rape, kidnapping,” from Latin raptus “a carrying off, abduction, snatching away; rape”
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
 “Common Sense is that which judges the things given to it by other senses.”
~Leonardo da Vinci
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Oscar Peterson Trio & Ella Fitzgerald – Jazz At The Philharmonic – 1957
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Nina Simone Rare Footage & concert Film
“All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.”
― Edgar Allan Poe
My Mother died at the age of 93 in the fall of 2018. I miss her and will not be … More
I posted this on Facebook, but they censored it. I guess Jerry Jeff cusses too much. texas monthlyguy clarkguitarmusician I … More
Writing, poetry, creative expression and the blues have everything to do with good, evil and the difference between.
