Afternoon folks!

I've cleaned up and digitized a bunch of good stuff in the last couple of weeks. Starting off, there's an early 70's Etta James album on which she does some amazing covers of Randy Newman songs. After that, Art Neville (the elder Neville brother) has a compilation of early New Orleans rock n roll - great stuff!

There's scads of blues-rock this week with The Electric Flag, a Dr. Feelgood album from their early period with Wilko Johnson on guitar and and album from a less-well-known british artist Lord Sutch (sometimes known as "Screaming Lord Sutch") which features people you'll probably recognize - Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, John Bonham, Nicky Hopkins and Noel Redding.

After that, there's what I think is John Prine's best album "Diamonds in the Rough," and we finish up this week with some fun older recordings from Ukulele Ike.

Enjoy!

“Learn the rules like a pro, so you can break them like an artist.”
Pablo Picasso

This seems to be the week of waiting until the NATO summit.

Except the rest of the world is creating new future.

Happy Friday everyone. I hope everybody is doing well. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.

It's that time of year again. Time for that annual rite of summer, the county fair. Every year the fair in San Diego begins in late May or Early June and concludes with fireworks on the 4th of July.

The fairs version of Walmart greeters

Right now I'm listening to Revolutionary Blackout talking about Cornel West running as a Green:

We oldsters can do some wild and crazy things, too!

Not to let the 4th of July vacay at Gulf Shores, Alabama go by without doing something dangerous enough that we had to sign a big bunch of waivers before taking the little ride, we got on a bouncing yellow raft, called a banana boat. I didn't fall off, but came close. Like some others on the damn thing. We were pulled across waves by a bad ass jet ski, bouncing up and down, came up to a boat.

Aspects of July 4th just don't do it for me:

I love the get-togethers, the picnics and BBQ's, the parades, the speeches. I don't like celebrating war and fighting though, and I don't really like fireworks unless run by the town or city (and controlled, so that fires, death and injuries don't result from those fireworks). That's because I have too many animals which are, and know too many people who are, stressed or terrorized by fireworks. As an aside, here's a great idea to replace fireworks: lasers, drones, and fun music!

Not stressful! A sunset view from this Land, from about as far west on the mainland as one can go: Kalaloch, WA. I took this back in 2004, I think those trees are still there