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Psychedelic trombones and Simon & Garfunkel

Posted on April 25, 2010
I couldn?t make it to Jazz Fest yesterday. A client had some needs that took priority. But I made it out there today. Saw the entire sets of Bonerama, Walter ?Wolfman? Washington, and [dramatic pause] Simon & Garfunkel. Between those,...

Cocaine

Posted on April 24, 2010
The good folks at What About Paris? posted this Eric Clapton classic. Me, I like the part where Eric plays rhythm and lets another dog play lead. That, friends, displays security and self-confidence.

Someone?s list of top 50 scariest movies.

Posted on April 23, 2010
The Boston Globe has an interesting list of the top 50 scariest movies. I have no problem with the list, other than it doesn?t include Psycho.

A prodigious birth

Posted on April 23, 2010
The good folks at What About Clients? remind us that today is William Shakespeare?s 446th birthday. You may celebrate with cakes and ale.

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Sean Costello ? What if?

Posted on April 17, 2010
Lately I?ve been digging this record of Sean Costello?s music. He died a couple of years ago at just 28 years old. Before that, he laid down some mighty fine music. Here?s a taste. (Headline hat tip to Jeff Hannusch.)

These guys observe a lot just by watching

Posted on April 13, 2010
Just watch this. (Warning: rated R for language. Hat tip to FB friend Greg Peters.)

Can?t top this: Mississippi Fred McDowell

Posted on April 10, 2010
Some installments of Saturday Evening Blues need no introductions. This is one of those. Ladies and gentlemen, ?Mississippi? Fred McDowell performing Shake ?Em on Down. Encore!

Dr. John prophesies about Danzinger

Posted on April 08, 2010
Unfortunately, Dr. John and the Rev. Goat Carson were onto something when they wrote these lines a couple of years ago: They tell me ?forgive,? they tell me ?forget? Ain?t nobody charged for the murders yet Half of the story...

Gerry Spence on spirituality

Posted on April 07, 2010
The most recent issue of Litigation (available to members of the ABA Litigation Section) has a terrific article by Gerry Spence: Persuading Yourself You Can Win. Its purpose is to convince inexperienced lawyers that they really can win at trial,...

Mary don?t you weep.

Posted on April 04, 2010
Here?s the earliest version I could find of this song. In just two lines, it ties together Passover and Easter. (Apologies for being a day late with this installment of SEB.)

That must be in Willie Nelson County.

Posted on April 03, 2010
View Larger Map My favorite news story of the day: A guy gets busted for growing marijuana in his barn. The location of said barn: the town of Weed, California.

That must be in Willie Nelson County.

Posted on April 03, 2010
View Larger Map My favorite news story of the day: A guy gets busted for growing marijuana in his barn. The location of said barn: the town of Weed, California.

Isaiah 52:13 ? 53:12

Posted on April 02, 2010
See, my servant will prosper, he shall be lifted up, exalted, rise to great heights. As the crowds were appalled on seeing him ?so disfigured did he look that he seemed no longer human? so will the crowds be astonished...

A homemade recording of ?Were You There?

Posted on April 02, 2010
Were You There Six weeks ago, I set a goal of recording a listenable version of ?Oh Sacred Head Surrounded? by today, Good Friday. Unfortunately it proved too difficult for me to master by today. So I modified my goal...

A story for Holy Thursday

Posted on April 01, 2010
To me, Holy Thursday is the most poignant day on the Church calendar, the intersection of sorrow, joy, anticipation, and dread. I hope no one minds my sharing a little story about one of the things that happened on this...

My vote for best political album

Posted on March 30, 2010
Yesterday?s topic was best political song. Today I?ve been thinking of a follow-up topic: best political album. My vote goes to Bob Dylan?s Infidels. It includes Neighborhood Bully (about Israel?who else has written a political song about Israel?), License to...

What?s your favorite political song?

Posted on March 29, 2010
Here?s something with go-viral potential. The New Statesman has a list of top-20 political songs, as voted by its readers. At First Draft, Athenae responds to the call, as do a dozen (so far) commenters. So what?s your favorite political...

?When foundations are destroyed ...?*

Posted on March 28, 2010
The synopsis of The Infrastructure Crisis, by Robert L. Reid: The collapse last summer of the Minneapolis bridge that carried Interstate 35W over the Mississippi trained a spotlight on a long-standing national problem: how years of neglect, underfunding, and a...

The Preservation Hall Jazz Band: Sweet, not flashy

Posted on March 27, 2010
The Preservation Hall Jazz Band has been around so long that we sometimes take them for granted. But what a treasure they are! They have a new record out, appropriately entitled Preservation, featuring a slew of guest artists: Andrew Bird,...

Jazz Fest: The fun starts now

Posted on March 25, 2010
A couple of days ago, the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival release what we call ?the cubes?: the day-by-day, stage-by-stage music schedule. This is a big day for hard-core Jazz Fest addicts (like yours truly); it?s the day we...

Bottled water is a scam

Posted on March 23, 2010
Bottled water is bad for the environment and no better for your health than tap water. That?s the message from this video by The Story of Stuff.

You can also observe a lot just by listening.

Posted on March 22, 2010
The tag line for this blog?the Yogi Berra quotation?isn?t just amusing; I think Yogi was on to something. You really can observe a lot just by watching. The trick is to watch with an open mind, dropping your prejudices. Don?t...

The things they used to do ? Double feature for Saturday Evening Blues

Posted on March 20, 2010
I?ve been listening to an Earl King CD I just bought, which put me in the mood to post an Earl King video. So I went looking for one, and one good thing led to another. First up is The...

Watch this. But watch it full-screen.

Posted on March 17, 2010
Here?s an embedded video showing where we fit in the scheme of things. But please don?t watch it embedded. Watch it full-screen. Click where you see four arrows pointing to the four corners, and watch it that way. (Hat tip...

We?re number one ? hundred and fifty five

Posted on March 15, 2010
Avvo ranks the top 425 legal blogs. Somehow Minor Wisdom made the list at number 155. I think traffic to my other blog, The (New) Legal Writer, may be driving the numbers, since both blogs share the same root URL....

Some advice for every artist: Record yourself

Posted on March 14, 2010
This afternoon, I spent a couple of hours recording and re-recording myself playing a piece I?m trying to master.* It?s my own guitar arrangement of Were You There. I took the chords from Ritual Song and figured out how to...

This is too damn good not to share.

Posted on March 14, 2010
If you need a blues fix (and who doesn?t?), listen to the Junior Wells radio station. Tip of the black fedora to Brad V at Letters in Bottles.

Serendipity and the blues

Posted on March 13, 2010
I?ve been trying to play R.L. Burnside?s classic ?Going Down South.? So I searched for a post-able video of the song. I found it. What I didn?t expect to find was the song accompanied by a beautifully bluesy photo montage...

Faith defined

Posted on March 06, 2010
Ambrose Bierce had an interesting definition of faith: Faith, n.: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel. Compare with Hebrews 11:1: Now faith is being sure of what we hope...

John Hammond with Tom Waits: ?I Know I?ve Been Changed?

Posted on March 06, 2010
I went looking for a good video of ?No One Can Forgive Me But My Baby,? a Tom Waits song covered by John Hammond. I didn?t find one, but I did find this gospel number with John Hammond on lead...

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