I have gone back to work today, and I was going to post something related to that. Instead, what I have is Lila Downs in a recording session. Agua de rosas is the song. It is fun to see her in this informal setting, almost like a rehearsal although, of course, it is quite serious. … More Lila Downs
Now, thanks to the Patriarchy Blamer, I bring your attention to the Implicit Association Tests from Harvard University. These purport to diagnose racial and other biases in an objective way. I took two of the tests. I have a “moderate automatic preference” for African-Americans over Euro-Americans, and I associate weapons slightly more closely with Euro-Americans … More Fascinating
When I started this Blues Carnival yesterday, I did not realize how much archival blues footage there was available. I had only searched for a few artists when Colorado Bob sent a link to Big Joe Williams on his very own Baby, Please Don’t Go. It is an excellent suggestion and I hasten to point … More Big Joe Williams
And here, perhaps to close out the evening, is D. L. Ménard with La porte de derrière. This song involves dissipation – things which happen after you go to a dance, and visit a few honky-tonks. I have seen it performed more times than I can count. Axé.
Boozoo Chavis has died, and Richard’s in Opelousas, Louisiana, has closed, but we used to go there and see him and dance. Axé.
Landis Everson is a poet with five new poems and fourteen mostly old photographs in Jacket 26 (October 2004). He has two new poems in the American Poetry Review 35:1 (January/February 2006), a sexy one in Shampoo 26 (January 2006), and many others recently published and forthcoming. He won the 2005 Emily Dickinson Award. This … More Landis Everson
Here are Joan Baez and Bob Dylan with Woody Guthrie’s famous song. This performance took place during the Rolling Thunder Revue tour of 1976. Axé.
Here is Muddy Waters with some friends we may recognize by now, circa 1963. I saw Junior Wells perform this song in the 1990’s, but I have not found a video of him singing it as well as he did that day. At this point I really am sitting on the couch and leaning into … More Got My Mojo Working
I had surgery this morning, but was not awarded any opiates. The dentist believes I am now sitting on the couch with an ice pack on my head, and drinking smoothies. Without opiates, however, I find myself eating Creole soul food from the shop on the corner, and hopping around the living room in excitement. … More Blues Carnival
Au bout du petit matin we are grooving with Sonny Boy Williamson on Who’s Gonna Take Care of You? Listen to the syncopation, and look at his fingers. Axé.
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