I had a dream...

   As I was navigating my ancient bones down the aisles of the Kroger on a hover-round after church¹, I heard a song on the PA that caught my attention.

   The melody sounded vaguely Beatle-esque (Carry That Weight?), but I couldn't place the vocal, and ruled it out as being new P-Mac material.  So of course I engaged the power of the Google, and discovered that this was not some decades-old song (although it is from a decades-old artist).



   Lynne really stuck the landing on this one, released late last year.  And from perusing the comments following the video, apparently I wasn't the only one to hear a Fab Four resemblance.

¹ OK, my bones aren't really ancient - just a nickel over a half-century - and I am by God's grace fully ambulatory.

For he's a jolly good fellow...

Apparently one of my Pay Pals was concerned for my online safety, and sent me this kind notice:

We see unusual activity in your account, we give you the opportunity to do the PayPal's dispute resolution process.

We see unusual transactions in your account, so we suggest you to spend less than 5 minutes to complete the resolution process.All feedback as well as other information confidentially and privacy. PayPal's is currently producing a new rule to make our costumer still feel safety, PayPal's recommends you who is active in the currency of payment online via PayPal's, please feel free to re-post the data verification. We aim to re-register and maintain all the information to you.

I of course am grateful that they keep costumers in mind.  No theatrical production goes well without their skilled efforts, even though I have not purchased any costuming accoutrements using the payment service, or any at all for that matter.  And I always like to feel safety.

Seems legit, right?

Harpejji-o!

OK, I had a draft - From Doolin-Dalton¹ to Dueling Banjos - to have featured the Henley/Frey/Browne/Souther song, followed by Buck Trent (not Owens) and the incomparable Roy Clark, riffing on the song from Deliverance.

But, alas, Denney Crane ran the Trent/Clark version before I could complete my draft, so it remains in Blogger purgatory.  I'm surmising DC and I both happened upon the banjo video as a sidebar to a vid posted by Keith over at BON.

So anyway, while perusing a CBS morning show tribute by Stevie Wonder to the late Prince, I noticed he was playing an instrument with which I was not familiar, called the harpejji.  Googling found the maker's site, which included about three dozen song snippets played on the instrument.  Here's one of them:



Don't know if this'll catch on, but would love to see what its potential would be in the hands of a Joe Walsh, Jimmy Page, or Lindsey Buckingham.

Or maybe even Roy Clark...

¹ H/T to the Queen

Spirit of St. Frederick

In response to ComKev's question Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is like Jazz, I thought I'd post the following.  Until now, I had never researched St. Frederick, but according to the Wikipedia, he was [ironically] the patron saint of the deaf.

WTW?



Like David Gilmour's ranging guitar solos, I am quite fond of MF's searing horn.

Tomorrow is a long time

Watching Carson tonight, Carl Reiner mentioned the Sahara Tahoe, a Del Webb property that originally opened in 1965.  That jogged my memory, as I remembered the Kingston Trio live album Once Upon a Time, which was recorded there in July 1966, and featured this Dylan cover.



It's not the live version that I remember, but possibly has better harmonies (this was recorded the following year at San Francisco's hungry i club.  I am particularly fond of Bob Shane's baritone vocals.  Though now retired, Shane is the sole surviving member of the original Trio.

Possibly I have featured this video before, but was too lazy to check back issues.

BTW, Carson's monologue tonight was rough.  Dating to the Gerald Ford presidency, he had great guests - Carl Reiner and David Brenner, but during the actual opening, I think Tommy Newsom got better laughs than Johnny did.

Some days are like that.

Edit: Not one to leave well enough alone, I checked my back catalog, and sure enough, I ran this song November 11, 2013.

Now you're back out on the street

...and you're trying to remember?



Good luck with that.

I Think I'll Just Sit Here and Think

...that the world is a better place because Merle Haggard was in it.

I have several favorite Hag songs, but this is probably the one I like best:



We are poorer for the passing of the man from Bakersfield.  And we don't seem to be headed in a good direction.

As Henley put it:

Well, it's a cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold, cold

Post, postmodern world

No authenticity, no sign of soul

The radio won't play George and Merle.¹

And that's a darn shame.

¹ They're Not Here, They're Not Coming - Henley/Lynch