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Okay, yeah, this has just been going through my head because Baron Davis, Steven Jackson, Jason Richardson and the Golden State Warriors have beaten the Dallas Mavericks at least twice…
This has kind of the same theme as “Warriors In Woolworth,” and is from around the same time, same gender, same country.
KPOO recently aired an interview with Bo Diddley. Asked about what he has against hip-hop, he said. “I have nothing against hip hop….but there’s this thing called melody I like…melody is what helps you REMEMBER a song…” then he went on for about five minutes about why his kind of music is better than hip hop…oh here i go again siding with people older than my (dead) grandfather…. but, hey, there’s a lot more to Bo Diddley than the beat that’s perhaps wrongly attributed to him.
Something newer—maybe a little too “me’ generation, but, no, it’s not the Alice Cooper song because I know there was a schism
His 1975 country-hit rendering of this Steve Goodman tune shows his brilliant characteristic self-promoting chutzpah. After he breaks the song off with a spoken word moment of what makes a ‘classic country’ song, and then returns to a final verse that begins with “I was DRUNK the day my MOM got out of PRISON,” he ends up having it both ways, at once making one laugh at the convention, yet also honoring it and making one feel it. If such a song is not glorified with the title ‘poetry,’ that’s more the fault of poets in my opinion.
A new song! First heard on KPOO radio 89.5; Swamp Dog specifically asked that this song be debuted on March 6th, 2007. Beautiful Stax Volt feel on the verses with passionate righteous, but never clopying, testimonioal vocals before its more hip-hop chorus kicks in
to then give an award to Carrie Underwood.
Ah, the limited edition single he included with Squeezing Out Sparks_ I was reminded of this upon hearing the new, “Abel Without a Cain” (or is it “Able Without a Cain,” byThe 13thGraders, www.myspace.com/the13thgraders
A Bucharest poet someone sent me a link to, because he had written a kind of ‘fantasia’ or ‘answer songs’ to one of my poems.
McKibben’s organization, “Step It Up, ‘07,” may prove to be an ally. I like that he appeals to the feeling (however he uses spurious statistics to back it up) that more people in America are unhappy than they were in 1956, and attributes it to the fact that more people have less friends, because of the acquisitive material ‘progress’ that is sold us at the expense of basic trust and grassroots community building. Ah, nomad nation, etc….
Because sometimes you just have to…
