Sunday Serendipity

Todays serendipitous find was a list of 81 videos featuring Keb’ Mo’ playing the blues, A days worth of the Blues, should make for a good Sunday.

Enjoy, Jack

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  2. wiki about Keb ‘Mo’

    Kevin Roosevelt Moore (born October 3, 1951), known as Keb’ Mo’, is an American blues musician. He is a singer, guitarist and songwriter, living in Nashville, Tennessee. He has been described as “a living link to the seminal Delta blues that travelled up the Mississippi River and across the expanse of America.” His post-modern blues style is influenced by many eras and genres, including folk, rock, jazz, pop and country. The moniker “Keb Mo” was coined by his original drummer, Quentin Dennard, and picked up by his record label as a “street talk” abbreviation of his given name.
    […]
    Keb’ Mo’ started his musical career playing the steel drums in a calypso band. He moved on to play in a variety of blues and backup bands throughout the 1970s and 1980s. He first started recording in the early 1970s with Jefferson Airplane violinist Papa John Creach through an R&B group. Creach hired him when Moore was 21 years old and Moore appeared on four of Creach’s albums: Filthy!, Playing My Fiddle for You, I’m the Fiddle Man and Rock Father. Keb’ Mo’s first gold record was received for a song, “Git Fiddler”, which he co-wrote with Creach on Jefferson Starship’s Red Octopus. Red Octopus hit number one on the Billboard 200 in 1975.

    Moore was also a staff writer for A&M Records and arranged demos for Almo – Irving music. Keb’ Mo’s debut, Rainmaker, was released on Chocolate City Records, a subsidiary of Casablanca Records, in 1980. He was further immersed in the blues with his long stint in the Whodunit Band, headed by Bobby “Blue” Bland producer Monk Higgins. Moore jammed with Albert Collins and Big Joe Turner and emerged as an inheritor of a guarded tradition and as a genuine original.

    Keb’ Mo’ has appeared on stage (1990–1993) in several versions of the musical Spunk, by George C. Wolfe, an adaptation of three short stories by Zora Neale Hurston. His character, Guitar Man, learned while he was an understudy to “Chick Streetman”, played all the actual music in the play while performing. The character of Guitar Man is the foundation for his stage persona.
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  3. for all those holiday air travelers this weekend

    Attribution: CNN Airport Hell by Rivers, CagleCartoons.com

  4. BTW, cagle cartoons put that in their ‘toons-for-conservatives section.  bet there are a bunch of folks on the trail that would disagree seeing how CNN seems to go overboard more on dem gaffes coverage rather than on magaT treachery.    

  5. California Congresswoman and Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi joins Bill to discuss living in fear of political violence and her role in Biden’s decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race.

  6. like that cartoon about CNN hell, here’s another thing that possibly could appeal to dems depending on their sense of humor as well as to magaTs:

    Ad runs on NewsMax for ‘Trumpy Trout’ fish on the wall that mimics Donald Trump (msn.com)

    In what could be one of the stranger sides of consumerism, a new ad for a fish on the wall, dubbed the “Trumpy Trout,” that resembles and speaks like former President Donald Trump, is airing on the network NewsMax.
    “Trumpy Trout: Making Fishing Great Again” is the slogan for the new wall decoration, according to its website.
    On the website for the Trumpy Trout, the item sells for $59.95 plus shipping and handling and features a fish hanging from a plaque that is supposed to resemble Trump, with blonde hair, pursed lips, and other features imitating Trump.
    “Introducing Trumpy Trout™, the animatronic talking fish that brings fun with every speech! Mounted on your wall or displayed proudly on your desk, Trumpy Trout™ is sure to entertain with his high fidelity voice and unforgettable personality,” the description of the product says on its website.
    Written on the plaque around the head of the Trumpy Trout is the slogan for the decoration, “Making Fishing Great Again,” along with white stars on a blue background.
    The item also says several slogans, much like the hanging fish of old, including “I’m building a new pond, and the bass will pay for it,” and “I am the hugely, bigliest fish in the pond.”
    While batteries aren’t included, the website boasts that the fish does have a “60-day money-back guarantee.”
    There is also a number customers can call to order the fish, 1-800-775-2307, that answers with the Trump voice.
    The ad for the collectible was posted on X by reporter Aaron Rupar and quickly went viral.
    It also appears that the collectible has a pending patent application with the US Patent and Trademark Office.
    It is not clear whether or not the fish is connected to the former president’s brand or his reelection campaign.
    The terms and service page for the Trumpy Trout website says that it is owned by Top Dog Direct LLC, an “As Seen on TV” company.
    Still, Trump has been known to go all in on merchandise, capitalizing on his MAGA brand through hats, shirts, koozies, and more, as well as launching a limited edition pair of sneakers and trading cards earlier this year.

  7. I noticed there was an edited version of this ad going around so i wanted to make sure the original was still available

  11. Happy Sunday. Mr. Ivy is a big fan of Keb’ Mo’, so I’ve had a chance to hear a lot of him. 
    Off on a jaunt with the family. No politics which is an interesting phenomenon in itself. Today we ride the Cog Rail to the top of Pikes Peak which the guys had all run the marathon together back in the day. They’re all too creaky for marathon running these days.
     
     

  12.  
    America the Beautiful

    Patriotic song of the United States

    Also known as
    “Pikes Peak” (lyrics)”Materna” (music)

    Lyrics
    Katharine Lee Bates, 1895

    Music
    Samuel A. Ward, 1883

    Published
    1910 by Oliver Ditson & Co.

     

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    “America the Beautiful” as performed by the United States Navy Band

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    “America the Beautiful” is a patrioticAmerican song. Its lyrics were written by Katharine Lee Bates and its music was composed by church organist and choirmaster Samuel A. Ward at Grace Episcopal Church in Newark, New Jersey.[1] The two never met.[2]
    Bates wrote the words as a poem, originally titled “Pikes Peak“. It was first published in the Fourth of July1895 edition of the church periodical, The Congregationalist. At that time, the poem was titled “America”.
    Ward had initially composed the song’s melody in 1882 to accompany lyrics to “Materna”, basis of the hymn, “O Mother dear, Jerusalem“, though the hymn was not first published until 1892.[3] The combination of Ward’s melody and Bates’s poem was first entitled “America the Beautiful” in 1910. The song is one of the most popular of the many American patriotic songs.[4]
     
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/America_the_Beautiful

  13. Pikes Peak, I could see the North side of the mountain from my house in Arvada, about 90 to 100 miles away.  Something unheard of here on the Chesapeake Bay, a good day is up to ten miles.
     
    Labor Day, when the average person supposedly becomes interested in politics, or something like that.  Yard signs, banners, etc.  I am going to try something that had poor results before, a yard sign that states “I vote Dems only”.  Some doing door to door read it and are good.  Some cannot read or cannot comprehend what it means.  It is worth a try.  I will turn off my new door bell though, I cannot hear the old one so I replaced it.  The old one is there, just not connected.  I don’t need convincing to vote Blue, it is how I vote. 

  14. Ivy, 
    Katharine Lee Bates is from Falmouth Massachusetts.  That’s the town we stay in when we go to Cape Cod.  There’s a statue of her on the lawn of the Falmouth library.
     
    Rick and I would love to buy a house there… but we would have to win the lottery first…

  15. In ‘60 me and the fam drove up Pike’s Peak in a ‘59 rambler station wagon.   The trip included all kinds of tourist destinations all around the country but that was a highlight.  It was August but we stopped at one point and I was able to mak a snowball from the first snow I ever got to fart around in, a patch of snow surviving in a bit of shade.

  17. Jack, perfect. For me it’s the Keb Mo Cloudy Days Blues Collection. 

    For anyone interested, LP dropped an acoustic guitar album today. Steel String Savant by Phil Chafin. Should be on all the streaming music platforms.

  19. if you win the lottery, i’ll take this car, TIA

    (it’s a hill climb up Pike’s Peak, is the association)

  22. The drive up Pikes Peak is serene, it’s the drive back down above the timberline that scares the beejeebers out of you. No guard rails. 
    BB: They know you’re not from around here if you mispronounce Arvada. 

  23. LOL  on the Pikes peak run, There has to be at least one tourist going 20mph.  Those mountain roads are fun to drive but you need to make the run early with the locals going to work and not an hour later when the tourist wake up.. Unless of course you have enough money to convince the ptb to block off the road and let you play. Even then there is a limit to what you can do imposed by nature and gravity.  You can try to push those limits but you will usually end up dead.  Which is probably why it is a good thing I’m not a billionaire. You think Elon Musk is bad, give me his money and it is “here, hey buddy, hold my beer.”
    Jack

  25. It was a late morning; I didn’t wake up until 10am. then again I set around reading until 3am.  My usual 7hrs of sleep. I’m a natural born “bluesman” without the talent. My favorite work shift is the evening shift. the late night one is fine until 4am then I want to sleep. I’ve worked it a bunch in my yute. Fortunately, when you work that shift the schedule is set by the man who works during the day and he doesn’t realize how many disruptions from folks he has to put up with.  So we would work like hell get our work done and hunt for a hole to hide in. The moral of this rambling is when you wake up late like I did this morning you get to have grog with your breakfast. Not that I ever paid attention to the “drink after noon rule” 
    Jack

  26. https://www.cnn.com/2024/09/01/europe/far-right-germany-regional-election-win-intl-latam/index.html

    “For the first time since 1945 a German far-right party is projected to win in regional elections, exit polls show.”
     
     
    “Branches of the AfD are classified as suspected right-wing extremist by Germany’s intelligence agency and the party’s top candidate in Thuringia, Björn Höcke has been fined twice for using a Nazi slogan.”
     
    Seek help! 
     
     

  27. Wow Pogo you must so proud.  That is wonderful.
    Jack
    The music is not only wonderful but it is a day’s worth no thinking required.  Thank you so much for a wonderful labor day sound track.
    There are a bazillion Trump trolls posting everywhere.  A lot on transgender issues, cheap shots on Kamala Harris’ laugh and supposed lack of experience.  
     
     
     

  28. Tim Walz’s Favorite Restaurant In Nebraska Serves The State’s Most Iconic Sandwich (msn.com)

    […]
    After all, hitting the campaign trail includes visiting eateries around the country to meet the locals and try their grub. This seems to be something Walz enjoys, as he visited his favorite Nebraska restaurant earlier this month to indulge in one of the state’s most iconic meals. Runza is the name of both the restaurant and its beloved sandwich. 
    Now with locations in Midwest states such as Nebraska, Kansas, and Iowa, the first Runza was opened in Lincoln, Nebraska in 1949 by a brother-and-sister duo. Their German heritage inspired the establishment’s name and the Runza sandwich, which comes from the German word “runsa” meaning “bun shape” or “round belly shape.” In an Instagram video, Walz is seen shaking hands with employees and saying, “We really came just to go to Runza, and then we did a little rally on the side.”
    “Nothing better than a Runza,” is what Tim Walz captioned his Instagram video. He just might be right, as the original Runza is made with seasoned ground beef mixed with chopped cabbage and onions inside bread that is baked fresh daily. The restaurant offers a variety of Runza choices, such as the Spicy Jack Runza made with pepper jack cheese, bacon, jalapeños, and southwest ranch, and the Cheeseburger Runza with American cheese, ketchup, mustard, and pickles. Walz ordered the Swiss Mushroom Runza, a classic in his eyes, and complimented the cheese and bread consistency. 

    Runza sandwich with cheese

    [continues]

    gov. walz tiktok about runza

    @timwalz

    Runza. If you know, you know.

    ♬ original sound – Tim Walz

  29. It would seem both Trump and Netanyahu have something in common:  Trying to stay out of jail by making things worse.  

     

  31. Thanks for the words about LP. Kid can play a guitar. Started as a shredder a la Satriani and Vai and now talks about and listens to Segovia. Long strange trip. 

    Heard there was a protest in Israel over the war of about 500,000 people and guess who they were protesting against … hint, not Biden, not Harris, not the US. They were protesting against Netanyahu putting up roadblocks to peace talks and treaties that leave Israeli hostages in captivity. They ain’t laughing at us.

  32. Just stopped in at Predictit.org to see how things are going.  So far it is tight, but sfb is starting to drop like a bad hay day from a cow’s behind.  I think the damage of the Arlington campaign shot is deep.  Many of his cult/voters are in families that have been supplying men and women to the military for a very long time.  That stupid act he does may have po’d a lot of them.  His only save is he did not do that hand move thing.  The one question is how long can it last?

  34. patD – Runza pic should’ve come with a tigger warning! Ha!  The ladies’ circles at church made them with hamburger, onion soup mix & kraut, served on hamburger buns.  The real ones were no better,  IMO.  Tim gets Swiss & mushroom? Fancy.  It used to just be with or without rat cheese.   
     
    Wish Project 2025 and the loss of our democracy was as interesting to the media as a Hot Pocket.

  35. It’s a dog eat dog world out there, and I’m wearing Milk Bone underwear. 

    —Norm Peterson

  36. Pogo, is there some other site to hear L Pogo’s record?  That site doesn’t come thru without having to join something

  39. He says “Maybe Spotify but I’m not sure” and “You might be able to preview the songs on iTunes before you buy.”  
    It’s his first so he doesn’t know. Says it’s on 15 platforms but as a man of few words he doesn’t give me a list. 

    Mrs. P listened to it on the link I posted and unless she gets iTunes free I know she doesn’t subscribe to any music platforms.

  41. BiD I’d have to say that’s his signature tune on the album. Based only on what I heard I’d say he spent more time on it than any other song on it. 

  42. I listened to LP’s album on Amazon and just checked Pandora and you can listen to it there, probably for free.
    Jack

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