A Tribute To Blues, Jazz and Women

Grooving blues and the amazing talent of Barbara Dennerlein & Emily Remmler (and their band).  Classic video and a great song!  Hope you like it!  Stormy Weather blues for a stormy day.  Organ solo at 2:28. Guitar solo at 4:05.  Sax at 5:33.  The bassist uses very catchy and groovy phrasing! 

Barbara once again, on a pipe organ.  Solo. 

 

And some Gypsy Jazz for the finale.  One of my favorites of Django and Grapelli.  Grapelli never played the same thing twice. He always improvised.  Django could only play with two fingers on his left hand.  The others were disabled. 

Making Musical Memories: The Messiah Will Come Again

Roy Buchanan:  Not well known.  One of the best guitar players out there.  Interpretation of words to notes was his specialty and makes his music speak more clearly than most orators.  This song makes me cry for some reason.  Many of his music does.  He died mysteriously in a Virginia jail.  Two days before my birth. 

Watch the whole thing.  Serious.

Site Stash: only notions

Laugh, cry, be inspired.  Read Only Notions

Enjoy!

Song Stash: Elizabeth Mitchell

We love to dance as a family.  Here is an artist that we found when Naomi was just a few months old and still listen to a lot.  Naomi really loves her music and it's enjoyable for us too.  Among Jerry Garcia and David Grisman's "Not Just For Kids" Album, is Elizabeth's "You Are My Little Bird" 
Her name is:  Elizabeth Mitchell

The Website To Check Out:  You Are My Flower

Her songs are sweet and fun with a lot of folk and great deliverance. 

We love Elizabeth Mitchell!  Hope you do too.  Here is another video, just for fun!  In case you didn't realize it, Spring definitely seems to be here.  We walked through a meadow yesterday with plants sprouting and budding all around.  The onion grass was sweet and sun was a bright warming sphere.

Four Random Pictures

 Naomi loves Grandma's raspberry jam! 

Today we went to our local library.  A place within walking distance of our house.  When I asked to apply for a library card, she asked me to write my name and address on a cue card and didn't check my identification or any of those bureaucratic traditions I've long tried to understand.  She let me take books home and the whole thing is based on honor.  Same experience at the post office (which is in the same building as the general store, the only other commercial business in town).

What a refreshing experience to discover a place so simple and sweet. I am so thankful. 

Naomi is potty training and doing really well.  She's also learning colors and how to sing Old MacDonald Had a Farm.  She loves Dr Seuss. 

 Mmmm...bagels with cream cheese, celtic sea salt and garlic!

Our first Etsy model:  Find this attractive sweater for sale in our store in a few days!  And this Tshirt is already posted.  :)

Prior Proper Planning

I'm wrestling with how to blog and not have instant internet access.  The answer is to pre-write my blogs.  So, sorry I haven't been on the ball yet, but soon, we will be all together again! 

Much love from sunny New Hampshire!

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