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Otha Turner and Corey Harris: Sitting on Top of the World
Posted on September 07, 2009Here?s a special Labor Day edition of Saturday-evening blues: Otha Turner and Corey Harris, sitting on top of the world. Otha Turner & Corey Harris - Sittin' On Top Of The World' Uploaded by alex_blues - Explore more music videos.
The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down
Posted on September 06, 2009After seeing some YouTube videos from ?The Last Waltz? (The Band?s farewell concert), I had to get the DVD. Last night, Suzanne and I watched it. Now ?The Last Waltz? isn?t just a concert video. It?s a movie directed by...
Don?t read me; read this guy instead.
Posted on September 03, 2009I?ve said it before, but it bears repeating: If you?re looking for good stuff on spirituality, don?t stick around here. Instead, click through to Dan Lukasik.
Tablature for ?Silent Night? in key of A, standard tuning, slide optional
Posted on August 29, 2009For several weeks, I?ve been working on a little instrumental version of ?Silent Night? for guitar, key of A, standard tuning, with optional slide. Here is the tablature (PDF). It?s a minimalist version, just melody and bass notes, which works...
Unhappy anniversary
Posted on August 29, 2009About a week ago, I wrote a post responding to those who question New Orleans? right to exist. In a nutshell: this city did not come into existence because 1 million or so people made a lifestyle choice to live...
How long does it take you to walk 20 feet?
Posted on August 25, 2009This video is a lovely illustration of this blog?s tag line: ?You can observe a lot just by watching,? credited to Yogi Berra. Someone should introduce Yogi to John Medina, the brain scientist in the video.
Rising Tide postscript and some facts about New Orleans
Posted on August 23, 2009Lately I?ve been reticent about expressing my opinions on this blog. I?d like to say that?s been due to humility. The truth is that it?s easier to be disengaged from what passes for the debate in this country, plus being...
Rising Tide postscript and some facts about New Orleans (#rt4 for Twitter)
Posted on August 23, 2009Lately I?ve been reticent about expressing my opinions on this blog. I?d like to say that?s been due to humility. The truth is that it?s easier to be disengaged from what passes for the debate in this country, plus being...
Friedman?s fearless football forecast
Posted on August 19, 2009Every year, die-hard Tulane fan Reuben Friedman forecasts Tulane?s football fortunes. No fan is as loyal to his team as Reuben is to the Green Wave. And few fans are as steeped in college football as Reuben is. So if...
40th anniversary
Posted on August 17, 2009In most of America, it?s the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Around here, it?s the 40th anniversary of Hurricane Camille ? 190 m.p.h. winds, 24-ft. storm surge.
Quotations of the day
Posted on August 17, 2009Two quotations on the blogosphere today bear repeating: ?All we can do now is give cars away, or give US citizens free money to buy them ? which we are obviously already doing with ?Cash for Clunkers? ? which is...
Amazing Grace, bluegrass style
Posted on August 16, 2009Here is a little tablature (PDF) I worked up yesterday for ?Amazing Grace.? Actually there are two versions of the song here: one with slide (indicated by the little arrows) and one without slide but with more robust chords. Both...
Sorry, no SEB today.
Posted on August 15, 2009Usually on Saturday, I post a blues music video. This Saturday Evening Blues streak dates back nearly two years, to November 17, 2007, when I posted Hoodoo Man Blues by Junior Wells and Buddy Guy. Since then, I've posted a...
?None of us are free ...
Posted on August 08, 2009... if one of us is chained.? Solomon Burke and the Blind Boys of Alabama. Solomon Burke & Blind Boys Of Alabama - None Of Us Are Free Uploaded by Thevine - See the latest featured music videos.
You can observe a lot just by watching listening
Posted on August 03, 2009What if you could listen to a free 43-minute concert by one of the world?s greatest violinists, playing some of the most beautiful music ever, written on an instrument worth $3.5 million? About a year ago, 1,097 people in a...
Summit Meeting on ?Living for the City?
Posted on August 01, 2009Just Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder doing ?Living for the City.?
Rising Tide IV
Posted on July 31, 2009Although I?m not much of an activist, I?ve signed up for this year?s Rising Tide conference, to be held Saturday, August 22, in New Orleans. The conference is a gathering of NOLA bloggers and other lovers of New Orleans ?to...
Sticking my toe in the Twitter pool
Posted on July 30, 2009I recently signed up with Twitter, under the handle minorwisdom. For the one out of a million unfamiliar with Twitter, it?s a micro-blogging service that allows you to write short posts and follow others? posts on one screen. Post are...
Then, of course, you have your bloggers
Posted on July 28, 2009The Free Dictionary offers this quotation of the day, by Plato: ?Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.?
Some suggestions for Gambit?s ?Best of New Orleans? poll
Posted on July 25, 2009When I was in the seminary, a fellow seminarian who happened to be an ex-Marine used to say, ?Opinions are like assholes?everybody has one.? I beg to differ. You have only one asshole, but you can have many, many opinions....
Maybe the best version of ?Mannish Boy? I?ve ever heard
Posted on July 25, 2009A couple of weeks ago, fellow NOLA blogger Adrastos posted this version of ?Mannish Boy?:vocals by the one and only Muddy Waters; accompaniment by the one and only The Band, who prove that, with proper training, white boys can indeed...
Magna culpa
Posted on July 24, 2009Catholic lawyers (especially those in Great Britain), take heed: ?Enforcing? the Magna Carta may get you excommunicated?if canon law does not provide for prescription on a 796-year-old papal bull.1 Our friends at Drug & Device Law explain. __________ 1 No...
Yesterday
Posted on July 21, 2009Yesterday was either a bad day or a good day, depending on one?s point of view. Bad:I start my car to go to work, the engine just barely turned over. Uh-oh, sounds like the battery is about to die. Even...
40 years ago today
Posted on July 20, 2009Two videos to commemorate what happened 40 years ago today. First, as we saw it on CBS, reported by Walter Cronkite. Most of the video is a TV simulation, but the audio is real and real time. Next up, a...
Deeper Well
Posted on July 18, 2009On guitar, Daniel Lanois. On vocals, the world?s sexiest gray-haired lady, Emmylou Harris. The song: Deeper Well.
When men were men, and giants walked the land
Posted on July 16, 2009Confession: I?m a sucker for space travel. I was too young to remember the exploits of Alan Shepard and the other original seven Mercury astronauts. But I do remember the Gemini program and the tragedy of Apollo 1. Why talk...
Validate your web site
Posted on July 13, 2009Your blog or other web site may look good on your operating system, on the browser you use. But it may not look so good on other operating systems or browsers. Mister Thorne points out an example and suggests a...
Hollis Brown
Posted on July 11, 2009The first version I ever heard of The Ballad of Hollis Brown was by the Neville Brothers on Yellow Moon. It hit me in the solar plexus. Here?s the original version, by Bob Dylan.
I don?t need to write about depression anymore, ...
Posted on July 07, 2009... because Dan Lukasik is doing a much better job of it than I ever could. Whether or not you think you have depression, if you?re a lawyer with a vague feeling of dissatisfaction, read Dan?s latest post.
Freedom rock(s)
Posted on July 05, 2009This kid from Iowa, born in 1979, was inspired by the movie Saving Private Ryan. So every year around Memorial Day, he paints a patriotic mural on a rock near his home town. My favorite is the 2007 edition.
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