Rosanne Cash - Tennessee Flat Top Box

Friday Night Musik this week
features Rosanne Cash....beautiful tribute to her father

Johnny Cash-The Last Great American / Documentary on BBC 2004

Johnny Cash

google surfing, came up with this tear jerking heartfelt documentary

about Johnny Cash...wow...so well done I felt like I could post this Saturday am EST.
That way you might listen all weeked...

There, plans fall into place.

Blogger Serendipity.

You might spool it up and find the meaning of life in 

John's passionate journey,

full throttle,

never looking back, well, never dwelling there.

Hearing Rosanne Cash sing River & a Thread really hits home.

I grew up near the convergance of the Mississippi, the Missouri and the Illinois Rivers,

none of them sissy rivers.

They were the interstate highways of yesteryear.

They still affect...well...everything in the Midwest.

The water tells you whether your crops will grow, wither or drown,

whether your house is 6 feet under,

or where you work, what you do. My Uncle Jay worked on the locks and I got to see them.

When I was invited to a friend's camp on the Illinois river I jumped off the dock. Everyone yelled at me to get out. I was a terrible swimmer but got by. What is it?

"Never jump in without tying a rope to your waist so we can pull you out if the undertow takes you..."

Oh man, I never went back in that docile looking beast.

My uncle Cliff Schaeffer was a very cool guy, a barber who lived in Hartford, Illinois.

He married my Great Aunt Ruth who was my grandfather Carls' baby sister.

She has the kindest aura and I felt so safe in her arms.She was a teacher.

Cliff worked hard to memorialize the area he lived in-

which became home to 

refineries, lots of them.

The sunsets over the refineries often stunning and surreal. Dad worked at Shell for

awhile but it near killed him. God knows what chemistry 

he inhaled there on top of cigarettes of the day.

Cliff helped pave the way for the Lewis & Clark memorial at the beginning of the journey.

They have a nice mueseum there now, in Hartford.

The river talk got me thinking about the rivers in my life.

Threads another subject for another day....

Johnny's music certainly a thread through this post,

his daughter led me to find this documentary,

which pulled me back home.

Always a thread tied to my heart,

pulling,

pulling,

When I went to college,

 Kadi's well worn Johnny cash record,

we played over and over again...

"I hear that train a comin',

it's rollin' 'round the bend,

and I ain't seen the sunshine

Since, I don't know when...." 

by Johnny Cash,

Folsom Prison Blues

Friday Night Musik Part Two...

One thing led to another.

The radio over the internet playing sweet music

By Rosanne Cash and her group.

The music so crisp, clean, just great.

Heard the interview in between cat chores.

Her new album, River and a Thread...must buy...

Then by some miracle of my wishing,

This yt showed up

I am Grateful!!!

Posting this link from YT for a sample...

Wow.

Friday Night Music

This Friday for 3 Women Musicians..

First, is a link from YT featuring 

Lita Ford,

amazing

Then, Thought I needed to spool up some Carolyn Wonderland, This is one of my favorites, I found the Lions... late edition...after listening to this Carolyn Wonderland video I thought it had motion...weird. I looked for the one I thought I had...it slipped through my fingers. So wanting you to see the motion behind CW's amazing talent, will put in this link to an Imus show archive...this was the same time as we saw CW at Levon's barn...reminding me, go ahead and go see live music, there is nothing like it...



Then

Last but not least
a link to video on imus.com of Rosanne Cash singing a song from her new album... Just beautiful. i tried to embed the video to look cool but, hey i am no geek, and why waste precious time foolin' with it? Just figured I was darn lucky that fox business posted this. since we gave up the satellite, we don't even know what imus looks like anymore :). Anyway, back to the music: http://video.foxbusiness.com/v/3057092378001/rosanne-cash-performs-a-feathers-not-a-bird/