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Daily Bread

My blog is my Daily Bread
My Devotion
Feeding my Head
Memories of Moments
Gone
But not Forgotten
They sit here,
Waiting for me to Reminisce.
Our 35th Wedding Anniversary
Seems like such a long time
Where did it all go?
Then a tweet like this one pops up in my Twitter Stream...
And I know it’s just the One.
Like Fred is Just the One
For Me ❤️

.@JettRebel & @GlennisGrace besloten tot een spontane jamsessie: Aretha Franklins 'Chain of Fools'. Ook een keer een uitzending bijwonen? -> https://t.co/2PT28zo3TL #DWDD pic.twitter.com/C5C2QKYbUA

— DeWereldDraaitDoor (@dwdd) November 28, 2019

musical discovery

Ytube surfing...
Then a wow moment
Like this one

Terry Danko

Link on ytube

Fireside concert...

Wow

Chet Atkins & Mark Knopfler - I'll See You In My Dreams - Walk Of Life

A little more music...
this gem suggested 2 me by my you tube app,
This is a big wow, giving me fresh appreciation for music....am in awe of these 2...
happy saturday
meg

Monkton Chronicles Late May 2014

End of May 2014

Struggling against the tide of paperwork to claim I am disabled when all I can do is the essential paperwork du jour dictating to me what do I need to do today? Working out the system in my head, as I sit and ponder this bureaucratic daytime nightmare, I am reminded of that blank stare as I would ask clients, did you fill out the form? I am reminded of the impressive stacks of befuddling papers, notices, warnings, messages that suck your energy. Do the dishes? Sorry, not today. Been stuck in an energy suck all day. It's likes a tornado only it sucks, it doesn't blow. Pipeline battle all radical now. Or so the pay media would have you think. Such uncivil tone! screams the editor of the Addy Indy, the local feel good rag for the college people to see the Idyllic county their kids live, study in and become the future senators, stock brokers, CEO's, Inheritors, Trustees, Skiers, Artists, Authors, Thinkers, Beautiful people.

I can write run on sentences. This is my blog and I can Whinge if I want to ;<{

It does a body good to spill one's guts. If you don't want to read this, please press the "X" at the top right corner of the screen.

I wasn't even sure if I could write an update for the end of May 2014. I felt like we got robbed of usable sunshine. Sunny days were too cold and windy out, then rainy and cloudy. Nights still 40's-chilly. Fred looking for wood pellets to burn.

Meanwhile nothing can rob me of the healing memories of being at Levon Helm's barn last Saturday night. Fred took care of me, pampering me all week so I could have the energy to attend the bar b que and concert...I made it. Even as I stood longer than I have in 6 months, I felt Levon's presence, I felt the Catskill stone under my feet, like it was under his feet, grounding him, like a magnet holding his feet to the ground, like it was holding me. I decided to resist posting any anti pipeline stuff until June 1st. I decided in honor of Levon and all those who played with him, and family, friends, fans, I would only focus on music this week. Music, that vibration, that mathematical vibration that gives us pleasure, takes us to times in our lives. Like the first time I was in the Catskills, Judy and I were in her plymouth Fury, visiting her friends. In the tape deck played Stage Fright, The Great Divide....Many of the songs played by The Weight last Saturday night....Google took us careening over a mountain trail to get from Tannersville where we were staying to levon's. I have some photos-working on sorting those into a movie. We had some adventures for sure. I decided not to spoil my week of music posting for those fracking bullies. But when I post an update...there will be a lot I have stored from taking a week off. We love Levon and his people...Have never had a more lovely night than a night at the Midnight Ramble...Levon's Healing barn of wood.

meg

Sunday Music from Nashville's Grand Old Opry Link to Holly Williams

Great tune...

Guitar players, inventors, Les Travelled Roads...

Les Paul Foundation interview...incredible history, well worth the hour:
It is in the margin    =========================>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


 Fast Forward... And Bow Thayer has a new album out... Here is a taste of his Great style...

Joe Cocker - Into The Mystic (LIVE in Baden) HD

Link
From yt


Just
Beautiful





& for this frosty tuesday
 march 2014
Into the mystic

153

We rarely hear the inward music, but we're all dancing to it nevertheless. - Rumi

Ledges

153

In Junior high school  <>

and somewhat beyond,

2 years better put into a state of suspended animation or amnesic void,

I tried out for chorus,

excited at this new huge school,

full of enthusiasm,

ready to become the next Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand,

Carole King,

Peter, Paul & Mary,

Janis Joplin,

Mostly anyone but me.

Mom and Dad had a stack of records, as did my siblings,

It was the 60's.

We screamed music all summer to the stereo,

anywhere.

 There were 153 people trying out.

 Funny I still remember that number, 

like it is seared somewhere in my brain...

They could take 150.

Really.

150,

another number seared.

As I approached looking at the last Psalm, 

150,

the number yanked me like a painful string.

ouch.

When the names went up for who got in, 

could you imagine how long were the faces of the 3 who failed?

Wonder if the other 2 girls ever forgot.

The next year, I tried out again.

Admittedly I had no training, no concept of keys, tuning.

I played tuba in the Bass clef,

repetitive,

which confused me too.

Our grade school autoharp was out of tune.

But I tried.

The music teacher had me sing a song. 

She then stopped, looked up and said,

"Where were you last year?"...

That is where I am pretty sure my head spun straight around,

I did a princess turn,

and walked right out the door,

never to return.

Years later, an ember still burns for her,

that misguided teacher.

How could you have even heard 3 people?

Give them a tambourine...

a flag,

a chance.

So when Sister Rosetta Tharpe sings to

"Sing, because you are so happy,

Sing because you are so free, yes indeed...",

I think,

Freedom has its price.

And yet that doesn't keep me from singing.

We are free.

Healing power of Music...

 Check out this link to Tamara Saviano
who wrote of the healing power of music...
 

A true story of a dad, a daughter, and the healing power of music http://t.co/cZqTrzcAKq
— Tamara Saviano (@TamaraSaviano) December 10, 2013

Link to Travis Tritt memorial for George Jones

One day I visited an elderly woman who had George Jones posters, records, everywhere.
She had been reduced from the big old house to subsidized poor housing.
She lost most ever-thin, except her Memorobilia.
"The Possum" she said,
Puzzled, I wondered, Who???
"Who" I asked, she would not offer.
"George Jones".

And I wondered why, this woman who had lost so much idolized a man
who sang county songs like "He stopped loving her today."

And I saw her, alone and penniless with George standing by her.
A signed photo on the cold cinder block housing wall.
This story by Travis Tritt, also clarifies who he was.
Best to the family of GJ.
A Great Man.
Later I understood.

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I was so tired I forgot to do Friday night music.
Oh yes, I forgot, it was not planned.
Spent yesterday dragging plastic out so we can till and plant.
All stove up as some might say today.
Hanging out in the sunny window
and found a reason to buy a new signed CD
and actually be part of funding the project!
We have seen Randy in person and have been amazed.
Bruce Katz is on Alexis Suter's DVD live at the Ramble.
So hope you too will support this worthy project, no matter where in the world you might be.

CKS is producing a new album...
Your opportunity to help
press this link to

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Here are the members of CKS...
 

Music Link from YT. Aretha Franklin-Respect

Link to a Powerful Performance!
Great arrangement of musicians.
We share yesterday as a Birthday,
Hope you had a great one, Aretha!

BACK TO YOU - Paulina & Tasha

New music to me,
Pleasantly surprised Paulina sent this Great video
with a universal message,
Go on, Go back to being You...
Really enjoyed watching this, the music, the message.

For the last day of February, inching towards spring.
Cabin fever alert: a mix of actual flu/fever/illnesses spread throughout the population, and
just going stir crazy from winter's confinement indoors.

Yesterday's storm a stark contrasts depending on where you are in Vermont.
We got a lot of rain in the valley on frozen dirt roads.
Makes for this soupy, slippery, mucky, muddy-the sucking mud kind of roads.
Fresh powder on the mountains...

Link to movie by Anthony Pepitone. Sean Costello - Double Trouble

Great link to a movie by Anthony Pepitone.
Sean Costello, the masterful blues singer, guitarist.

 

Bruce Springsteen - Chimes Of Freedom

Link to a great song as current today as in 1988
To the Chimes of Freedom

Stevie Ray Vaughan - Testify 25/08/84

SRV Music videos posted this beautiful gem of Stevie Ray Vaughn & Band.
I was so sad once I discovered SRV, he was already gone. Perhaps that is why he
left too soon, like some other truly gifted artists.
Happy Christmas Eve for those who observe.
For those who do not, turn up the volume and enjoy the show.

Daniel Goodman - Keys To The Kingdom

take a few minutes to listen and watch this link......

Joe Bonamassa - Slow Train LIVE at Beacon Theatre

Link to Joe's channel...

Arlo Guthrie & The Dillards

Fred got 2 free tickets to see Arlo Guthrie in Rutland, VT last night
at the Paramount,
a stately old friendly venue
where we got to see the son of Woody Guthrie do a tribute
to his Father and life in general,
a rambling fantastic journey,
I started 37 years ago when I saw him and Pete Seeger at the Mississippi River Festival.
I was 17.
Tonight seat #17.
He was great tonight, his music disciplined, precise and loose at the same time,
His dad's tunes, tunes of his dad's era, tunes of Arlo's era,
stories intermingled, a biography,
and understated, perhaps as a shield,
he lost his wife a few weeks ago,
and they were so infinitely close,
so rarely perfectly matched,
it would seem he would be paralyzed by this,
and yet, he performed as I am sure she would want,
the music that they shared.
This video link is one she filmed and I found on you tube.
So if you get a chance to see Arlo's show, you will be truly enthralled
with his music and musing.
Thanks to Seven Days Newspaper for 2 tickets to this great show!