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Sonny Landreth, ?Überesso?

Posted on June 07, 2008
Sonny Landreth?s new album, From the Reach, features this hot number, Überesso. The video is from the Crossroads 2007 DVD, which is excellent. As usual with Sonny, the wonder here is how he makes what he does look so easy.

Sonny Landreth, ?????beresso???

Posted on June 07, 2008
Sonny Landreth???s new album, From the Reach, features this hot number, ??beresso. The video is from the Crossroads 2007 DVD, which is excellent. As usual with Sonny, the wonder here is how he makes what he does look so easy.

Robert F. Kennedy

Posted on June 05, 2008
Today is the 40th anniversary of Bobby Kennedy?s assassination. Here is a video to commemorate his life and death.

In case you needed another reason to despise David Vitter

Posted on June 03, 2008
Senate Bill 2731 would authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2009 through 2013 to provide assistance to foreign countries to combat HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis, and malaria. President Bush supports this bill. But seven Republican senators?the so-called ?Coburn Seven??are blocking it from going...

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Food: More scarce, more expensive

Posted on June 03, 2008
The high price of gas is a hardship for people who have to drive a lot. But worldwide, a more serious problem is brewing. For instance: According to these stories in the Chicago Tribune and the Guardian, high food prices...

John 9:41

Posted on June 01, 2008
A story from Awareness, by Anthony de Mello: A man born blind comes to me and asks, ?What is this thing called green?? How does one describe the color green to someone who was born blind? One uses analogies. So...

John Campbell, ?Saddle Up My Pony?

Posted on May 31, 2008
In a comment to my recent post about John Hammond, Greg Peters recommended John Campbell. Greg said that Campbell?s album Howling Mercy ?will take the top of your head clean off.? If this video is any indication, then Greg is...

John Campbell, ???Saddle Up My Pony???

Posted on May 31, 2008
In a comment to my recent post about John Hammond, Greg Peters recommended John Campbell. Greg said that Campbell???s album Howling Mercy ???will take the top of your head clean off.??? If this video is any indication, then Greg is...

A discovery

Posted on May 29, 2008
So I?m driving home from work one evening, listening to WWOZ. It?s a blues show. And as I hit Lee Circle, this amazing acoustic number comes out of the speakers. The song is ?No One Can Forgive Me But My...

Obama, Clinton, and McCain are of one mind on Darfur

Posted on May 28, 2008
The three remaining major presidential candidates released a joint statement today on Darfur.

Quotation of the day

Posted on May 26, 2008
?The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of other men! A weird life it is, indeed, to be living always in somebody else?s imagination,...

Quotation of the day

Posted on May 25, 2008
JFK, 1961: And so, my fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world, ask not what America will do for you, but what...

Taj Mahal and Corey Harris: ?Sittin?€™ on Top of the World?

Posted on May 24, 2008
All I can say about this video is it?€™s as sweet as sweet tea. See also A Scale Canadian, where Jim Bates has posted a live performance of ?Shelter from the Storm? by Bob Dylan.

Taj Mahal and Corey Harris: ???Sittin??????? on Top of the World?????

Posted on May 24, 2008
All I can say about this video is it???????s as sweet as sweet tea. See also A Scale Canadian, where Jim Bates has posted a live performance of ???Shelter from the Storm????? by Bob Dylan.

Your song

Posted on May 22, 2008
Today is the 58th birthday of Bernie Taupin, the guy who wrote the lyrics for most of Elton John?s song. To commemorate Bernie?s birthday (and for the sake of nostalgia), here?s a video of ?Your Song,? Bernie and Elton?s first...

Another Barathon survived

Posted on May 17, 2008
I?m happy to report that I survived last evening?s running of the 26th annual Tchoupitoulas Barathon. Six miles, six bar, six beers; time 1:02:25. Not bad, considering that my longest recent run was five days prior: five miles (with no...

The Pretenders: ?My City Was Gone?

Posted on May 17, 2008
Here?s a rock-and-roll apple that didn?t fall far from the blues tree: the Pretenders? live performance of ?My City Was Gone.? Orleanians can relate to that. The good folks at What About Clients Paris?, who led me to this video,...

The Pretenders: ???My City Was Gone???

Posted on May 17, 2008
Here???s a rock-and-roll apple that didn???t fall far from the blues tree: the Pretenders??? live performance of ???My City Was Gone.??? Orleanians can relate to that. The good folks at What About Clients Paris?, who led me to this video,...

Get your FYYFF t-shirt right here

Posted on May 14, 2008
If you want an FYYFF t-shirt (you know you do!) but can?t make it to Dirty Coast?s store on Magazine Street to buy one, fear not: you can buy one (or several) on line at Dirty Coast?s web site. While...

A suggestion for legislative pay raises

Posted on May 12, 2008
State Senator Ann Duplessis has caught a lot of flack lately for proposing a substantial pay raise for state legislators. Whatever you think of her proposal, two things should be universally accepted: If legislators are going to be paid at...

The Kelo backlash and the recovery

Posted on May 11, 2008
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court held, in Kelo v. City of New London, that the U.S. Constitution does not prohibit a state from expropriating private land for ?economic development,? e.g. a Wal-Mart. In reaction, Louisiana (like many other states)...

I got mine

Posted on May 10, 2008
The Ashley Morris memorial t-shirts just arrived at Dirty Coast on Magazine Street. Go get yours. You?ll look cool, and you?ll be helping Ashley?s family. For the signification of ?FYYFF,? read this classic by Ashley.

Trying out a new design

Posted on May 10, 2008
I?ve done some remodeling here at Minor Wisdom. I re-arranged the layout to put both sidebars on the right side, so that the newest post will appear in the upper left corner?the first place people usually look at on a...

Get your needs met

Posted on May 10, 2008
The 26th annual Barathon is this Friday, May 16, at 6:05 p.m. sharp. The flyer (PDF) is here; other details are here.

Henry Butler

Posted on May 10, 2008
Why did I say that Henry Butler is special? Here?s why, in two parts: See also these two posts at A Scale Canadian: Two versions of ?Aberdeen Mississippi Blues?: one by Kenny Wayne Shepherd (pretty good), and the original by...

The nutcracker sweet

Posted on May 08, 2008
This picture, spotted on Library Chronicles, is too funny not to share.

God speed, Mildred Loving

Posted on May 05, 2008
Every student of constitutional law knows about Loving v. Virginia, the Supreme Court decision striking down laws against interracial marriage. Well, Mildred Loving, the petitioner in Loving v. Va., died last Friday. We should commemorate her as we commemorated Rosa...

After all, it is the Jazz Fest

Posted on May 04, 2008
I didn?t go to the Fair Grounds today planning to see mostly jazz. But as usual, the best moments at Jazz Fest are unplanned. On arriving at around 11:30 or so, I headed for the Jazz Tent and caught most...

An editorial

Posted on May 03, 2008
After Ashey Morris?s death, one of the New Orleans bloggers (I forget which one) suggested that every NOLA blogger post something with the word ?fuck? during the month following Ashley?s death. I missed the deadline by a day or two,...

Sonny Landreth, ?Native Stepson?

Posted on May 03, 2008
Sonny Landreth is playing at Jazz Fest tomorrow. I won?t get to see him, so I?ll console myself with this 2007 performance of ?Native Stepson?.

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