This is a great and mellow version of one of my favorite Hendrix songs…this time done by Emily Elbert and some talented guitarist friends.
Good, good stuff…sensitive.
Reminds me what a great songwriter Jimi Hendrix was…in addition to being a guitar great.
Here’s another one from Emily…this time featuring some of her guitar work.
The three-piece band from Michigan…playing live in front of a stadium fuller than when the Beatles played there in 1965.
Live.
Three-piece band.
Live.
Man, they were a great band.
I thought that I didn’t really listen to Grand Funk all that much…until I remembered all the hits they had when I was growing up…”American Band”….”The Loco-Motion”….this song, “I’m Your Captain”…”Some Kind of Wonderful”….”Bad Time”….and probably a number of others that I can’t remember….
There were a bunch of songs that I heard all the time….so…I did listen to Grand Funk.
It’s easy to forget a band when they’ve been gone for a while….but…especially in this age of autotune and elaborate stage sets and pre-recorded tracks and all the other distractions that pass for “music”…a three-piece band that can do this is impressive.
These guys at the concert look like they were having fun, too.
That was a fun time to be getting into music, for sure….
I’m not a hoarder.
I’m an “assembler of useful things”.
That’s what a hoarder would say.
Of course, most of the stuff that I accumulate is useful.
Books…guitars…music…tools…etc.
Useful.
But…any “stuff” is a pain in the rear if it fills up your life.
When you trip over “useful”…that’s not good.
I woke up the other day feeling like I wouldn’t have the energy to fix the problems I either created or accepted.
This morning I’m feeling like I’ll do it….
I CAN DO IT!
When you’re underwater, the only place to go is back up to the sunshine.
Nothing hard about that decision.
Just start swimming.
I do know how to swim….
And…look at all the cool stuff in this guy’s yard and house!
This lady’s lucky!
Rockt so hart.
All this Scandinavian stuff!
What a great time in history to be a Norwegian!
I don’t have to go out and rape and pillage, either…
All I have to do is scroll around on YouTube!
Low-bandwidth Viking!
I’ve never been one of those “play a John Denver song around the campfire kind of guys”.
Not that I wouldn’t want to do that if I could remember a whole song.
I just can’t remember a whole song.
People ask me to play a whole song sometimes, though.
I think that I’m going to learn a really good acoustic cover of this song.
I wonder if anybody would ask me to play a song around the campfire if I learned this song all the way through?
I’ve got the “ayeyiyiyihhhhhhhhhh” part down already.
It would be cool to know a whole song all the way through.
This might make for a good singalong, too.
….”it can’t compete with this PILLOW TALK OF MINE!!”
When I worked at the radio station in Asheville I got a chance to see Jonatha Brookes while she was still playing with “The Story”.
Good stuff.
There are so many musicians with so much talent and so much to offer who aren’t “mainstream”.
Makes you wonder about the real value of what we consider “mainstream”….
David Sanborn is featuring some great artists in this showcase series.
Nahhhhhhh.
I don’t really live in a potato.
That’s just “click-bait”.
Wouldn’t it be weird to live in a potato, though?
My dad used to say that if you could insulate a house with a baked potato you could stay pretty warm.
I guess that’s true…
This lady is out in Idaho…and it looks like this might be a cool Airbnb that she built.
A potato Airbnb.
I don’t know if I would want a cow for a pet.
We have a big dog.
That’s enough.
This is another great Kirsten Dirksen video.
Kristie Wolfe is the lady who lives in a potato.
The potato is in Boise.
Our youngest daughter must be feeling better after having a bad earache a couple of days ago.
She’s also learning to spell.
Feeling better and learning to spell are a good thing to have going on in your life.
This was the note that she left for Jenny this morning.
Her breakfast order?
Why, “Tows Wiv Hny and Budr…Plls…”
Good to see her feeling better.
Good cover band….