The Evening Blues - 12-25-17
Hey! Good Evening!
This evening's music features Christmas music. Enjoy!
Ray Charles - Merry Christmas Baby
"Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night!"
No News or Opinion
Merry
Christmas!
I hope that all of the bluesters (and everybody) have had a great day. Thank you all for reading and participating!
A Little Night Music
Charles Brown - Boogie Woogie Santa Claus
Louis Jordan - Santa Claus, Santa Claus
The Enchanters - Mambo Santa Mambo
John Lee Hooker - Blues for Christmas
Smokey Hogg - My Christmas Baby
The Davis Sisters - Christmas Boogie
Lloyd Glenn - Sleigh Ride
Amos Milburn – Christmas (Comes But Once A Year)
The Voices - Santa Claus Baby
Marquees - Santa's Done Got Hip
Nathaniel Mayer - Mr. Santa Claus
Little Johnny Taylor - Please Come Home for Christmas
Louis Armstrong - Christmas Night In Harlem
Keb' Mo' - Jingle Bell Jamboree
Comments
Merry X-mas Joe
Hope you're having a great day.
I wanted to post Greg Lake's 'I Believe in Father Christmas'.
A scathing a comment on the x-mas season that I know.
So here:
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on Earth
But instead it just kept on raining
A veil of tears for the Virgin's birth
I remember one Christmas morning
A winters light and a distant choir
And the peal of a bell and that Christmas Tree smell
And their eyes full of tinsel and fire
They sold me a dream of Christmas
They sold me a Silent Night
And they told me a fairy story
'Till I believed in the Israelite
And I believed in Father Christmas
And I looked at the sky with excited eyes
'Till I woke with a yawn in the first light of dawn
And I saw him and through his disguise
I wish you a hopeful Christmas
I wish you a brave New Year
All anguish pain and sadness
Leave your heart and let your road be clear
They said there'll be snow at Christmas
They said there'll be peace on Earth
Hallelujah Noel be it Heaven or Hell
The Christmas we get we deserve.
I want a Pony!
We trust that you are having a good one js!
We just ordered Bill Mckibben’s new novel. When asked in an interview about how unexpected it was for him to be writing fiction he said don’t worry he is working now on a long depressing non fiction book out next year. He said he wrote this to give people a little comedic relief after such a long year of horrible news. Should be a fun read.
Hope everyone is having a good day! We gave our annual wave at high culture last night by volunteering to usher again at ProMusica’s Baroque Christmas Concert at the magical historic Loretto Chapel here in old Santa Fe. Usually we are all ‘I’ve got friends in low places’ but it’s nice when our friend invites us to get some culture for a change.
Really windy and cold here today so we got up. made a fire, worked on doing some cleaning etc and enjoyed being home.
Jakkalbessie is in the kitchen starting on dinner, and when I played the following song she came dancing out here singing along ! Great stuff!
All the best ye merry Bluesters !
A truth of the nuclear age/climate change: we can no longer have endless war and survive on this planet. Oh sh*t.
ahh, freely in the words of Kurt Vonnegut
which I found in the signature of Mark from Queens ...
Merry Christmas to you and your family, Joe. Thank You for all your musical gifts. I hope you had something good to eat for Christmas Dinner. I had boar filet. Can you believe it, since the reunification Germany has too many of those boars in the woods. (hmm literally translated a boar is a wild pig in German, so how does relate to our reunification?) In any case they can't shoot and eat them fast enough. Tasted very 'lecker'.
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He died for our debts, not our sins
Michael Hudson: He Died for Our Debt, Not Our Sins
Hi DonMidwest, I disagree a bit with Hudson here
in the Lutheran Bibel in German it says:
The German word Schuld does NOT translate into "debt" (of the financial kind). It also does NOT translate into "sin" (that would be "Sünde" in German).
The German word "Schuld" translates into "guilt" or "fault". So the way Germans think about this passage of the prayer, would be that someone asks God to forgive him of what he is guilty of having done or of the faults he has made and harmed others with it.
The word "sin" in the bible, ie "Sünde", might refer to "sexual" or other "crimes" of not obeying the 10 commandments, I guess. Whereas the word "Schuld", ie guilt has a much wider meaning. There are lots of things one can be guilty of, which is not as grave as a "Sünde".
There is the German word "Schulden", which is not the same as "Schuld". "Schulden" translates into the word "debt" of the financial or material kind.
Just saying, DonMidwest. I wish you and your family a Merry Christmas, if you celebrate it in your home. Otherwise I just wish you all the best. It is nice to hear from you here again.
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Somehow I don't see Jesus doing what Israel is
Indeed the Judaism that we know today is not the Judaism of Jesus
In fact I think he'd have a few things to say about that.
The Christianity we know today is not the Christianity of Jesus
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Don, it is always a pleasure to read your input.
It was in 1973 when a history professor spoke to me about the difference between translation and transliteration.
He did not lecture about it, but gave me a reading list and told me to always focus on that.
Happy holidays to you and yours.
"We'll know our disinformation program is complete when everything the American public believes is false." ---- William Casey, CIA Director, 1981
Good evening joe and Bluesters
Wishing you all holiday cheer and warm embraces.
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Check out my photo from last night Janis
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated communist, but people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists.
~Hannah Arendt
Merry-go-round the moon!
Wonderful image, thank you snoopy, xox.