Afternoon folks!

This week we've got blues with Champion Jack Dupree (joined on the first and last tracks by John Mayall & Eric Clapton), Jimmy Witherspoon with Jay McShann and Johnny Adams. There's some rock and blues rock with Dave Edmunds and Brian Setzer and this weeks diversity of styles is covered by Gram Parsons and Lindisfarne.

Enjoy!

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

Technological innovation is one of the driving factors of our ever changing modern world. It is one of the dynamics of which countries become world leaders and which have remained as economic backwaters.

The current chip ban by the United States is being compared to a Declaration of War.

Happy Friday everyone. Post any photos, memes, or music you like.

Some of the animals hanging out in, at or near three different water holes at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park.

Sorry I didn't have time yesterday (Thursday) to put anything together. I'll be on the road almost all day today. Leaving out before this publishes, might be able to check in this evening.

So this will be your open thread.

I'll leave you with just one thought. Go out and have some fun. Enjoy life while you still can. Take a walk. Visit some friends or family. Lift your spirits.

There you go man, keep as cool as you can.
Face piles
And piles
Of trials
With smiles.
It riles them to believe
That you perceive
The web they weave
And keep on thinking free. --Moody Blues

There are those that wish you nothing but despair. Those that want you to feel like there's no hope, docile, despondent. They're counting on it. That's why the doom and gloom is so persistent. Don't give them your mind.

Keep on thinking free.

Fun Cooking!

Several members here have posted about cooking and/or recipes recently (and in the past). I love those posts, so I decided to do one myself for the Open Thread today.

Crushing Russia's economy was supposed to be one of the top goals of the western agenda.
It looks like they lost that bet.