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Texas Johnny Brown at The Shakespeare Pub 2 comments

Texas Johnny Brown_edit blog Texas Johnny Brown at The Shakespeare Pub In Houston (11/15/09) Photo-Artistry by kenne

“We used to have guitars sessions,
guitar battles on Sunday out there at Club Matinee.
And there’d be about four or five of us there,
and man, guitars would be ringing like everything!

It was wild!”

— Texas Johnny Brown (Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues)

Posted July 7, 2020 by kenneturner in Blues, Capturing the Moment, Houston, Information, Music, Photo-Artistry

Tagged with Down In Houston, Houston Blues, Houston Texas, Photo-Artistry, Shakespeare Pub, Texas Johnny Brown

Smoke And Haze In The Foothills 3 comments

Smoke & Haze-art-72 Smoke and Haze In the Catalina Foothills — Photo-Artistry by kenne

We must make the most of life’s ups and down

when downs seem to overwhelm

do everything to lift up life through images

revealing its most brilliants.

— kenne

Posted July 3, 2020 by kenneturner in Art, Bighorn Fire, Catalina Foothills, Information, Photo-Artistry, Poetry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Bighorn Fire, Catalina Foothills, Photo-Artistry, Poetry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Smoke and Haze, Tucson Arizona

Conroe’s Corner Pub 2 comments

Sonny Boy Terry and Michael Durbin In Conroe’s Corner Pub (04/14/07) — Photo-Artistry by kenne

“The more one loves music,

the less music one loves.”

— Really?!!

I was going through some of my brother’s notes on music this morning and came upon the Roger Sessions statement, “The more one loves music, the less music one loves.” From my own personal experience, there is music I may not have liked but learned to love it.

So, I decided to research the context of what Sessions was saying.

“. . . this initial stage in listening to music is an entirely direct one; the listener brings to the music whatever he can bring, with no other preoccupation than that of hearing. This is, of course, what is to be desired; it is the condition of his really hearing. He will hear the music only to the extent that he identifies himself with it, establishing a fresh and essentially naive contact with it, without preconceived ideas and without strained effort.

. . . the listener’s reaction is immediate and seems, in a sense, identical with the act of hearing. Undoubtedly this is what many listeners expect. And yet, on occasion, one may listen to music attentively, without any conscious response to it until afterward; one’s very attention may be so absorbed that a vivid sense of the sound is retained, but a sense of communications experienced only later. It is this sense of communication to which I refer under the term ‘enjoyment’; obviously, one may not and often does not, in any real sense, ‘enjoy’ what is being communities. There is certainly some music that we never ‘enjoy’; experience inevitably fosters discrimination, and there is certainly some truth even in the frequent, seemingly paradoxical statement that ‘the more one loves music, the less music one loves.’ This statement is true in a sense if we understand it as applying to the experience of an individual, and not a general rule. But if our relation to the music is a healthy one — that is to say, a direct and simple one — our primary and quite spontaneous effort will to deny it.”

The more you learn about something you like, the more you will love it.

— kenne

Posted July 2, 2020 by kenneturner in Conroe Texas, Information, Music, Photo-Artistry

Tagged with Conroe Texas, Live music, Michael Durbin, Robert Sessions, Sonny Boy Terry, The Corner Pub

Bighorn Fire, July 1, 2020 Leave a comment

Bighorn Fire, July 1, 2020 (Tanuri Drive/River Road entrance to Tanuri Ridge) — Photo-Artistry by kenne

The Bighorn Fire continues to burn in the Santa Catalina Mountains this morning. The fire that started June 5 on the western edge of the Pusch Ridge Wilderness burning 118,370 acres straight across the mountains to Redington Pass on the eastside. The fire is now 54% contained. The Northern Rockies Incident Management Team has done an outstanding job protecting all “valued” areas. So far, no structures have been lost, and large wildlife continues to be spotted moving toward lower elevations. Smaller animals will tend to go underground.

— kenne

Posted July 1, 2020 by kenneturner in Bighorn Fire, Information, Photo-Artistry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Arizona

Tagged with Bighorn Fire, Photo-Artistry, Santa Catalina Mountains, Tucson Arizona

Jonn Del Toro Richardson at the Corner Pub (11/03/07) 1 comment

Jonn Del Toro Richardson at the Corner Pub in Conroe Texas (11/03/07) — Photo-Artistry by kenne

Jonn played lead guitar for Diunna Greenleaf for several years before going out on his own. The following video combines two clips, one in a club setting, another in a festival setting in which Jonn and Bob Corritore jam with Diunna.