i thought of this song the other day...i don't know, maybe it was the hellicopters circling overhead in the middle of the night and a light source that projected crisp still tree silhouetting on the window shade, even if only for a few seconds

or maybe it was just something shook loose for no reason at all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyF5J7au1jE

but anyway...i have made an abundance of food for dinner (spaghetti and sauce w/salad)...it is vegetarian (i know there are some veggies here) and i do love good veggie food! but you have to not mind shiitake and portabella mushrooms...a meal fit for a gnome! (i still think of psb's jalepeno cornbread sometimes...i just know that would be good!) anyhow there is plenty here for the taking...

i did manage to get to my favourite veggie restaurant on st paddy's day...

"i would like an order of boiled bacon and cabbage, please."

"uh...no?"

"bangers and mash?"

"no."

"well, just potatoes then!...and some irish tea!"

"that we can do!"

i know if they made a version of bangers and mash it would be awesome!

it is hard to believe that in my record collection back in 71 / 72 that that closer to home album (and the red one with the Nickle bag song) resided next to one of my most prized possessions of the time: John Hartford’s Morning Bugle. I think I said before I got John to sign that cover some 25 odd years later and it still hangs around in my records (although I think the Grand Funks fell be the road in the rambling years).

I was just curious if I can do it from memory
Old Joe Clark by my friend John (says right there on the jacket...thanks for being my friend)

Old Joe Clark was a preacher man
Preached all over the plain
Highest text he ever took
Was a high/low jack in the game

Now he came round to my place
Show me all of his cards
Whispered low in a gambler voice
said It’s really not to hard

said he never had no schoolin'
Just walkin’ round wearin a sheet
Bunch of people waivin’ them palm leaves
To keep Joe Clark from the heat

Now old Joe Clark
He got two little girls
To wash his feet and sing
Now old Joe Clark
I heard one say
We’ll give you anything

So get on down to Canaan brother
There’s a lot of good things goin down
With a little bit of luck
And a couple of bucks
You can be down there
For the glory role
Wake up brother
It’s a new day a comin’
And you haven’t got time to stop
With a little bit o’ bread
You can change your head
You can be down there when the glory
Roles

Now let's go down to the church house
There's a lot of good people hangin' round
crowd turn's over at 5 o'clock
to the cream of the underground

Now I just want
To be hip so bad
Be with the folks that know
Gonna get me some tie dyed underwear
And a little bit of snow to blow

Now I’m really glad
That I’m so sad
So glad I don’t feel well
I’d trade my key to heaven
If I could safely go to hell

Get on down to Canaan chorus

So I asked old joe to manage me
So I can go to sing
He said hurry up
I can wait on him
And he’ll help me do my thing

Now he calls me every hour
When I’m trying to be alone
Just want’s to keep me posted
That there ain't nothin’ a goin’ on

Now I need an old Orpheon 5 string
Qith a twelve inch open back top
So the next time ya go to the attic
Look and see what you got

Or a 12 inch Farland open back
28 and 3/8 inch scale
I wish you’d write and let me know
If you got one for sale



on another note
yes it's me and I'm drinkin again
it's alright, I'm just drinkin again
Doctor says it'll kill me
but he didn't tell me when
hey it's me
and I'm drinkin'
drinkin' again

I knew I would forget one, but I didn't look it up!

Now Old Joe Clark
Got nothin to do
Got a little old rubber cross
Pickin' up pennies
from the folks thats rich
and he gives a little smile
to the laws

singin get on down
to Canaan brother
theres a lot of good things
goin down
with a little bit o' luck
and a couple of bucks
you can be down there
with the glory role

wake up brother
theres a new day comin'
and you haven't got time
to stop
he's a high flyin' man
with hat and coat ready
and he's gonna be there
with the glory ro (o..o.)ole.

I love that song!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPGUFxyirzg

sometimes you just feel like dancin

12 string isn't much diff on the fingers. steel strings are steel strings.

I can't really find much of a tune there, besides the fast playing. Leadbelly, impressed me more. Pick a bale. Pick a bale of cotton..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fdyBJAYOsPw


This blind kid, impressed me more. But when you turn 50 everyone's a kid, that's younger than you....

Opinions are like onions. they make your eyes water...

Rb

That Kid aint blind. It's the name of his group..

But ck. this kid out. I'm sure you've all seen him on letteman! This kid impresses me to no end.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ix4TNJvVk8M

For a 10 yr old kid , he can really play the blues man!!!


Rob

i thought this was cute :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EgLsaJ9f1PU

i almost forgot

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBrYtOa8LD8

i thought this was kind of cool...

(just between you and me, i am afraid what i have really just said is,

free the monkeys to smoke mountain peaks in ocean reefs!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEqxwZPc7ms

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVz-umy8QI0

sometimes, it is just about havin' fun!

And if the blues ain't enough fun........

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_B1G6uVHa5s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9lp0IWv8QZY

Here's one for the gifted uniquely in hiding

Everyone loves to see the slumdog win! Whatta voice!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h2uL8lk2lM

the original Shakti...the world was full of cosmic fantasies back then!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQqpOxZ704A

maybe today as well! I mean all and all, if you average it out we are just noise at the same point in time!

I don't think we are ever average even if repetitive. There is an entire universe behind each set of eyes, a unique note, a perfect music and if we do not search for ourselves outside of it, a perfect bliss.

I built a 3D album on Hindu themes entitled "River of Life". Not of much interest here, but fusing poems, Hindi music, animation and heart together was a marvelous way to spend ten years. Perfection takes time. Behind the eyes, this price is nothing.