Nuclear Grand Strategy (sic) and Abolition
Lyrics of the week:
I’d love ’em and I’d leave ’em alone
I didn’t care how much they cried no sir
Their tears left me cold as a stone.
But then I fooled around and fell in love
I fooled around and fell in love”
–Elvin Bishop, “Fooled Around and Fell in Love”
“You think love is just fun and games
Trying to be a playboy
All you do is run around
Using hearts as play toys.
You’ve been playing daddy with every mama in town
What you gonna do when you look up one day
One of Philadelphia s favorite musical sons will be making the trip west for the Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival.
G. Love, alongside a special 8-piece band christened The Juice, has been added to the festival s schedule for a 10 p.m., Saturday, Oct. 16 performance on the Freedom Hall Main Stage. G. Love is touring behind his new album, The Juice, which recently received a Grammy nomination for Best Contemporary Blues Album.
The 2021 Lancaster Roots & Blues Festival, the first since 2019, is set to take place Oc…
G. Love, whose real name is Garrett Dutton, formed The Juice - as opposed to the more familiar Special Sauce - for this performance. Dutton last appeared at the Lancaster County Convention Center for a slightly different reason - hosting and performing during a cooking demo for his G. Love s Special Sauce hot sauce during the 2017 Taste! Lancaster event.
WHAT HAPPENED!!??!!… On This Day In History – May 5
1862 – Troops led by Ignacio Zaragoza halt a French invasion in the Battle of Puebla in Mexico.
1891 – Carnegie Hall opens in New York, Tchaikovsky is guest conductor.
1956 – Elvis Presley scored his first US No.1 single and album when ‘Heartbreak Hotel’ went to the top of the charts. His debut album also went to No.1.
1961 – Alan Shepard becomes the first American to travel into outer space, on a sub-orbital flight.
1962 – West Side Story soundtrack album goes #1 & stays #1 for 54 weeks which is more than 20 weeks longer than any other album
1963 – On a recommendation by George Harrison, Dick Rowe Head of A&R at Decca records, (and the man who turned down The Beatles), went to see The Rolling Stones play at Crawdaddy Club, London. The band were signed to the label within a week.
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Jon Batiste is a genre-bending genius. Although he is most often associated with jazz he is equally adept at soul, funk, hip-hop and probably whatever else you d want him to play. Jon Batiste s Freedom from his new album
We Are opens tonight s show. We ll also hear from Revs. Shawn Amos, Freakchild and Peyton (although I m not sure all of them are ordained) and we ll fit in something from Jimbo Mathus and the New Moon Jelly Roll Freedom Rockers.
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Written by Doug Hall on May 20, 2021
If you happened to be on the Williamsburg Bridge anytime from the summer of 1959 through roughly the autumn of 1961, you would have been privileged to hear the sound of a true artist seeking to find new directions and an inner voice on his instrument. Already famous and successful, with constant performing and recording, Sonny Rollins, one of the greatest tenor saxophonists of the Bebop and hard bop eras, had left the public eye, working out his notes alone on the bridge, to find a new conversation with his horn. He would later record
The Bridge, his 1962 comeback album, a direct inspiration, and result of this sabbatical. Rollins’ shift to a more narrative voice and stream of consciousness style on his saxophone would be highly influential, impacting all other jazz horn players to follow.