Bill Monroe 1936
09/04/2014
Axé.
Axé.
De la musique, pour le weekend que l’on a passé. Axé.
What is the origin of that line, where was it first heard (surely not in the 20th century)? Axé.
Now, that covers a lot. Axé.
Allah, Allah… Axé.
Axé.
Axé.
This is amazingly ethereal and meditative. Axé.
Verbal distinctions should be valued, since they stand for mental – intellectual – distinctions. Yet one feels it is somehow a pity that the word “poet” should have been split asunder. For nowadays when we speak of a poet, we think only of the utterer of such lyric, birdlike notes as “With ships the sea … More The Telling of the Tale
See also the song of Belisa. Here comes Ya se van los pastores. Axé.