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Ho, hum, another great day at Jazz Fest
Posted on April 30, 2009If you like elbow room with your music, today was the day to be at Jazz Fest. Thursday is always a relatively low-key day. And on this particular Thursday, the clouds and threat of rain kept the wimps at home....
?My blues heaven? debriefed
Posted on April 27, 2009Every now and then I?ve had a perfect day at Jazz Fest. But this must be the first time I had a perfect weekend?all day, every day, Friday through Sunday. I arrived when the gate opened. And with some time...
Big Wide Grin
Posted on April 27, 2009Here?s a talented group you probably never heard of: Big Wide Grin, performing Bill Withers? ?Ain?t No Sunshine.? The vocalist is Lawrence Lambert; bandmates are Karl Werne Elaine Dempsey. Sitting in are Michael Mulder on guitar, Eric Schwartz on piano,...
My blues heaven
Posted on April 26, 2009My Jazz Fest experience yesterday was a bit up and down. It started when I arrived at my secret parking space, where I found the street partially barricaded. ?Hmm, is it still okay to park here?? I asked myself. Then...
One day down, six to go
Posted on April 25, 2009I feel like an old man trying to do a young man?s job. Jazz Fest today was great. But dang! I?m tired. I got to the Blues Tent fairly early: around 12:45 p.m., for Rockin? Tabby Thomas?s set. I wasn?t...
If you?re hungry at Jazz Fest
Posted on April 24, 2009Carolyn Jack has a wonderful feature on Vance Vaucresson, whose business, Vaucresson?s Sausage Company, is the last remaining food vendor from the original 1970 Jazz Fest. Katrina wiped out his business, but he got it going again with inspiration from...
Like Christmas Eve
Posted on April 23, 2009Tomorrow, Jazz Fest starts. The weather will be grand, and I have my Brass Pass in hand. And today I picked up my Jazz Fest Bible. Oh boy! I?ve looked over tomorrow?s schedule; here are some places that I may...
Jazz Fest gear
Posted on April 18, 2009If you?re going to Jazz Fest next weekend, then this weekend would be a good time to gear up. You want to travel light while having everything you need. With those goals in mind, I suggest shopping at your friendly...
CeDell Davis
Posted on April 18, 2009CeDell Davis was born in 1927 in Helena, Mississippi. As a child, he learned to play blues guitar. When he was nine years old, he contracted severe polio. As a result, he could no longer use his right hand, so...
Luke 20:38
Posted on April 12, 2009Thomas Merton, He is Risen (1967) (Source: Thomas Merton Essential Writings (Christine M. Bochen, ed., Orbis Books 2000): We often forget that in all accounts of the Resurrection, the witnesses started out with the unshakable conviction that Christ was dead...
Mary, don?t you weep
Posted on April 12, 2009Tonight I went to Easter Vigil at my parish church (pictured above) and heard a song kind of like this one. It was chant, not Gospel, but the same theme. Happy Easter, everyone.
Satisfied mind
Posted on April 11, 2009Here?s some holy music for your holy weekend: Satisfied Mind, written by Bob Dylan and performed here by the Blind Boys of Alabama. (Dylan?s version is pretty good too.)
Genesis 22:1?12
Posted on April 10, 2009Some time after these events, God put Abraham to the test. He called to him, ?Abraham!? ?Ready!? he replied. Then God said: ?Take your son Isaac, your only one, whom you love, and go to the land of Moriah. There...
When you hear the first six words, you know it?s blues.
Posted on April 04, 2009Those first six words are ?When my first wife left me, ....? By R.L. Burnside, with encouragement by Johnny Woods.
When you hear the first six words, you know it?s blues.
Posted on April 04, 2009Those first six words are ?When my first wife left me, ....? By R.L. Burnside, with encouragement by Johnny Woods.
Curly had it easy.
Posted on April 02, 2009In American courtrooms, witnesses must promise to tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth. In 19th century Burma, the witness?s oath was a bit more complicated. So reports Mark Abrams in the Guardian (hat tip: Improbable...
The NPR Dancers
Posted on March 31, 2009The non-commercial radio stations always play their best stuff during pledge week. So it is with our local NPR station, WWNO. This morning they presented the NPR Dancers. I wish only that I could have seen them. But wait ......
The joy of traveling
Posted on March 31, 2009Today?s Daily Mediation from the Henri Nouwen Society is so good that I hope you don?t mind my sharing it with you: Travelling?seeing new sights, hearing new music, and meeting new people?is exciting and exhilarating. But when we have no...
New mistress
Posted on March 31, 2009In early February, I decided to revive my interest in playing guitar. I had lying around the house an old Ovation Deacon electric guitar and an Alvarez 5014 acoustic. I bought a new amp, re-strung both guitars, and made some...
Jazz Fest Weekend 2
Posted on March 29, 2009The second weekend of Jazz Fest is four days: Thursday, April 30 through Sunday, May 3. Here are the acts circled on my calendar: Thursday, April 30: Little Freddie King, 12:25 p.m., Blues Tent. I saw Little Freddie last year....
Preliminary Jazz Fest plans
Posted on March 28, 2009A few days ago, the good folks running the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival posted the day-by-day schedules. This is something I look forward to, as I find out when and where I can see my favorite artists. Here...
Mojo Boogie
Posted on March 28, 2009Johnny Winter is scheduled to be at the Jazz Fest on the first Saturday, April 25, for an interview at the Alison Miner Music Heritage Stage and, later, the closing set at the Blues Tent. Judging from this 1991 performance...
Preliminary Jazz Fest plans ? Weekend 1
Posted on March 28, 2009A few days ago, the good folks running the New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival posted the day-by-day schedules. This is something I look forward to, as I find out when and where I can see my favorite artists. Here...
Poke Salad Annie
Posted on March 21, 2009Pardon this bit of nostalgia. Forty years ago, when I was 11 going on 12, when I first started listening to music, this song burned itself into my long-term memory. Which might help explain how this white boy got hooked...
New toy
Posted on March 15, 2009Big news in the Ward household yesterday: My wife and I finally traded in our Sanyo SCP 4500 phones (picture at right, photo credit here). We had these phones since May 2001 ? nearly eight years ago. Back then, they...
How progressive are you?
Posted on March 15, 2009According to this test, I?m 300 on a 400-point scale, which makes me ?very progressive? ? or, depending on your point of view, a very naive bleeding-heart socialist. (Hat tip to Southern Appeal, where most readers proudly score below 100.)
A little Howlin? Wolf, a little John Lee Hooker, ...
Posted on March 14, 2009Here?s a little blues medley by the Doors?Back Door Man (previously done by Howlin? Wolf) and Crawling King Snake (previously done by John Lee Hooker, and many before him). Note Robby Krieger?s finger-style guitar playing. That wasn?t bad. But if...
The burden of judging
Posted on March 09, 2009Today?s daily mediation from the Henri Nouwen Society:We spend an enormous amount of energy making up our minds about other people. Not a day goes by without somebody doing or saying something that evokes in us the need to form...
A strange ceremony
Posted on March 08, 2009Long ago, in a galaxy far, far away, a ceremony was held to mark the 6th of 28 stages of the metageneration for Jessel, the Trifelj Utinard. We have video with English narration. (Hat tip to my parish?s director of...
Black Keys triple feature
Posted on March 07, 2009It?s been a little while since I posted anything by the Black Keys. I searched for some of their videos, found many good ones, and narrowed the selection down to three. First up is Set You Free, from their album...
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