Music Explosion — Abstract Art by kenne
Pearl Cadillac, Gary Clark Jr. on the CD “This Land”
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Double Bayou Blues — Photo-Artistry by kenne
Strong winds blow
through bayou country
blues plays on.
— kenne
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Music Explosion — Diunna Greenleaf 2 comments
Music Explosion — Abstract Image of Diunna Greenleaf by kenne
Words filling the air
Expressing an enchanted
Anecdotal truth
— kenne
Diunna Greenleaf (CD Party, December 2006)
— Image by kenne
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The People Know, It’s Winter In America and I’m Looking for Some Rain Leave a comment
Gill Scott-Heron — Grunge Art by kenne
Gil Scott-Heron was a soul and jazz poet, musician, and author known as one of the most important progenitors of rap music, aggressive, no-nonsense street poetry that inspired a legion of intelligent rappers. He has been called ‘the black Bob Dylan.’
WINTER IN AMERICA
From the Indians who welcomed the pilgrims
And to the buffalo who once ruled the plains
Like the vultures circling beneath the dark clouds
Looking for the rain
Looking for the rain
Just like the cities staggered on the coastline
Living in a nation that just can’t stand much more
Like the forest buried beneath the highway
Never had a chance to grow
Never had a chance to grow
And now it’s winter
Winter in America
Yes and all of the healers have been killed
Or sent away, yeah
But the people know, the people know
It’s winter
Winter in America
And ain’t nobody fighting
‘Cause nobody knows what to save
Save your soul, Lord knows
From Winter in America
The Constitution
A noble piece of paper
With free society
Struggled but it died in vain
And now Democracy is ragtime on the corner
Hoping for some rain
Looks like it’s hoping
Hoping for some rain
And I see the robins
Perched in barren treetops
Watching last-ditch racists marching across the floor
But just like the peace sign that vanished in our dreams
Never had a chance to grow
Never had a chance to grow
And now it’s winter
It’s winter in America
And all of the healers have been killed
Or been betrayed
Yeah, but the people know, people know
It’s winter, Lord knows
It’s winter in America
And ain’t nobody fighting
‘Cause nobody knows what to save
Save your souls
From Winter in America
And now it’s winter
Winter in America
And all of the healers done been killed or sent away
Yeah, and the people know, people know
It’s winter
Winter in America
And ain’t nobody fighting
‘Cause nobody knows what to save
And ain’t nobody fighting
Cause nobody knows, nobody knows
And ain’t nobody fighting
‘Cause nobody knows what to save
— Gill Scott-Heron
If you are interested in some great music, damn good poetry and a little history of this nation, check out the video — it’s all about holding on to your dreams.
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Honky Tonk Angels — Computer Art by kenne
“The Empathic Civilization is emerging. A younger generation is fast extending its empathic embrace beyond religious affiliations and national identification to include the whole of humanity and the vast project of life that envelops the Earth.”
– Jeremy Rifkin
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Los Lobos At Reid Park In Tucson, Arizona (October 16, 2016) — Images by kenne
(Click on any of the images for a larger view in a slideshow format.)
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Jimmy “T99” Nelson At Houston’s Rhythm Room On Washington Street (September 13, 2003) — Computer Art by kenne
Jimmy “T99” Nelson (April 7, 1919 – July 29, 2007) was an American jump blues and rhythm and blues shouter and songwriter. With a recording career that spanned over 50 years, Jimmy “T99” Nelson became a distinguished elder statesman of American music. His best known recordings are “T-99 Blues” and “Meet Me With Your Black Dress On”. Nelson notably worked with Duke Robillard and Otis Grand.
— Source: Wikipedia
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Another Music Sunday — ROY BUCHANAN 3 comments
Roy Buchanan may not be as well known as many great guitarist, but he’s the best, passing away young in the late 1980’s. Thanks to Youtube we are able to experience his love affair with the guitar — some of the best blues music ever created.
He may not have the classic rock voice of Jimi Hendrix, but he sure can out play him — you be the judge.
kenne
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Houston’s Trudy Lynn (October 24, 2002) — Image by kenne
This image of blues musician Trudy Lynn was taken at Fotofest 2002 in Houston’s warehouse district. This exhibit was of blues musicians (note image of Bonnie Raitt on the wall behind Trudy) and on this evening many of Houston’s blues greats were entertaining.
— kenne
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“Guitar Love” — Image by kenne
Guitar Love
On a clear desert night
bright stars showcase
the sky above —
empty martini glass,
the Bose sound
of SRV guitar licks
penetrates the night air,
watching
Live at Montreux ’85 video
on my MacBook Air.
— kenne
“SRV” Image by kenne
You know,
there is something I’ve learned,
all we have,
ever,
is to give each other our love —
if we forget that
we lose everything we’ve got.
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“Shadows at the Backdoor” (09/13/03) — Image by kenne
Blues Legend, Jimmy “T99” Nelson is shadowed by James “Blues Hound” Nagel and Smokin’ Joe Montes
off-stage at the back entrance of the old Washington Street Rhythm Room.
Jimmy “T99” Nelson (10/01/01) — Image by kenne
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Corner Pub Still Life 4 comments
Corner Pub Still Life (2008)– Image by kenne
“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
. . . from One Hundred Years of Solitude, by Gabriel García Márquez
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Livin’ On Bayou Time 3 comments
Front Door To Jackson’s Grocery, Double Bayou (The Place), Texas. — Images by kenne
All-time is created equal,
but we don’t use it equally.
Some are livin’ on bayou time,
while others in a New York minute.
My time is your time,
but it is not mine to give.
You can’t give away
something that isn’t yours.
…unless you share the moment.
— kenne
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Another Blues Project Night 4 comments
Ken Harris — Image by kenne
ANOTHER BLUES PROJECT NIGHT
Next
Saturday night
back
in the Piney Woods
where
music rides
the
vapor trails
of
campfire smoke
slowly
circling above
friends
of the blues —
tossing
bottle caps
at
Ken’s beer alter
twenty
years out
the
Blues Project
seventy
years of life
for
the prince
of
the blues.
— kenne
Ken Harris has posted —
Fall Fest 2013 is fast approaching. We are looking forward to seeing you here on Oct 26, 2013.
This year for the first time we will have three acts. Henry Old School Jones will open for Guthrie Kennard and Julie Bonk.
After Guthrie, Marina Rocks will play. In 1993 for my birthday I wanted some live blues music here at our house
The Blues Broad Kathleen aka The Blues Broad (she had a blues program on KPFT) sent me to Big Roger Collins.
He played here and the Blues Project was born and we have been presenting live music here ever since.
20 years later we are doing a special night for my 70th birthday.
As usual we will BBQ some meats and will have ice tea ,water and coffee.
Bring a side dish you like to show off to share, a lawn chair, your cooler with your favorite beverage and $10 (donation 100% for the music ).
We plan on serving food around 6:30 Henry Jones with his old school blues will play after we eat.
We received rave reviews the last time he was here so we are bringing him back .
The feature act will be Guthrie Kennard with his raspy voice Americana, bluesy, roots music.
Accompanying Guthrie will be Julie Bonk on key board . We caught Guthrie’s show at the Dosie Doe Music cafe
and were so impressed that we asked him to play here at the project . We first heard Julie at Camp Stupid at the Kerrville Folk Festival in 2012 .
She was playing keyboards in a song circle, Stephanie was singing with her, Marina was also there and they were wowing everyone.
To close the night out Marina will do an intimate set and jam. She opened here last year and was an instant hit with everyone rocking the house.
Musicians are encouraged to bring their instruments to jam afterwards.
We are attaching a you tube video Guthrie and Julie did. Enjoy. It’s gonna be a bluesy, jazzy, rockin’ night at the Blues Project….
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- Ken & Mary’s Blues Project 20 Years Out (kenneturner.com)
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Riding The Blues Wave — Image by kenne
Poet Kevin Young has written about the blues:
The rise of modernism parallels the rise and reach of the blues.
This is no coincidence—after all, what critic Frederic Jameson identifies as
“the great modernist thematics of alienation,
anomie,
solitude,
social fragmentation,
and isolation,”i
could be summed up as simply having them blues.
But, as I have said elsewhere,
the blues means both a form and a feeling,
the one a cure for the other.
The blues are good-time music after all,
meant to make you tap your feet and feel,
if not better,
then at least comforted by the fact that you are in good (or deliciously bad) hands.
The blues offer company, even if only misery’s.
It is in the face of alienation and anomie that the mask,
modern and often racial, becomes necessary.
This is why the dominant mode of the modernist era is the persona—
the mask both as metaphor and means of production.
But the mask is not just T.S. Eliot‘s blackface,
Ezra Pound‘s love of Noh drama,
or Edvard Munch‘s iconic rictus of despair in The Scream,
but also the Janus mask of the blues,
which laughs and cries at the same time.
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