BUMP: NAT MYERS - Young Mind Old Soul [SINGLE OF THE WEEK, MONTH, YEAR EVEN!?)

  A really moving message from our Nat (Myers that is) and letting us know some days just be like . . . . . . .well this . . . but he just keeps right on singin’!This to really sign off the day for 12 hours or so with this beautiful old soul (Nat I believe, whilst a youngster still and battling against his cancer like a stronger man, has an old Delta bluesman not so hidden deep inside him!)

Fight on lil brother!

STILL SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD!

I asked Nat if it was okay to post this and responded to his recent post on Flickennabok and he said 'you bin with me from the early days' and 'you don’t need too ask'

in reponse to my hearfelt response to yesterdays missive he called me “brother!”

So proud and it nearly brough a tear to my eye

Soldier on lil Brother Nat

Nat posted: 

 "One of those days you wake up tired like you stepping on a trapdoor in the floor of your bones. A loneliness aches in you like an old companion that won’t stop knocking on your door. You break your own heart, frustrated at your circumstances, envisioning the light and life you wanted vs the dark inertias you currently wade.  

But every day you get stronger, even with death sitting like a wolf in the shade of your heart, even when your eyes have difficulty making sense of the shadows that dog your path. Don’t be like me, sinking into yourself, wading in your woebegone-ness, feeling like you witnessing life go on without me. I know it well. Watching love move on from this minefield kind of living. I make mine my enemies, and deny the better parts of us. Is it any better to recognize it, if the agony sustains?

Today I woke up with a punch in my gut. I get asked all the time what the end goal of this is for me. Music, cancer—hell, I ain’t too sure. I know my hearse will cut a lonesome figure headed to my grave. I know there’s work left to do. I know there is music and living left to know. Even with the pain, these days and struggles that nearly drive me to my early death—I survive em, and try to transfigure this heartbreak into something more than just its passing pain—as for me I'm glad & hopeful you will never know what I'm going thru, or talkin' about. but I promise yal, despite these things, I'm still sitting on top of the world.  “

#folkblues #deltablues #sittingontopoftheworld

REMINDER AS TO WHAT NAT IS BATTLING AGAINST ! In early February 2025, Nat Myers, was admitted to the hospital. What he thought was a lung infection turned out to be multiple cancerous tumors on his heart. If you can spare something, please consider donating to his GoFundMe: https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-nat-f... https://www.gnatmyers.com

Ry Cooder - Maria Elena [Boomer’s Story] | jt1674

  . . . . I mentioned the other day thanks to my old friend John Northcote 'Boomer’s Story' was the first Cooder album I bought and this classic mexican toon was partially why . . . . . . still a favourite whoever it appears. Get that syncopation with the pianist . . . . . get the strings

I might sign off the day with this beauty but think I will bump the Nat Myers 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/826555859064766464/ry-cooder-maria-elena

Jimmy Reed - Cry Before I Go | HERBERG DE KELDER

 Love some Jimmy Reed and the EPs from the mid late sixties revealed my precocious interest in the Blues from Leadbelly, to Josh White and Big Bill Broonzy to Big Boss Man Jimmy Reed

Cry Before I Go

HERBERG DE KELDER

a-ha - A BOX OF... a-ha [2026] (28 x CDs) | Butterboy

A-HA!

BLIMEY O’Riley, for a one hit wonder and likeable but expendable pop band and earworm compositions notwithstanding, 28 albums is a bit of a stretch but Butterboy doesn’t do things by halves!!!

 

hit the band name up top!

Amen Corner - (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice | HERBERG DE KELDER

(If Paradise Is) Half As Nice

Major ‘Mod’ pop hit for Andy Fairweather-Low and The Amen Corner who went on to be a back up jobbing guitarist for well, almost everyone but especially Eric Clapton and benefit gigs form almost everyone (A.R.M.S. etc)

HERBERG DE KELDER

The Pogues - Who Said Romance Was Dead [ Just look ‘em straight in the eye and say “Pogue Mahone!”] | jt1674

 

https://www.tumblr.com/jt1674/826476831472582656/the-pogues-who-said-romance-is-dead

NAT MYERS - Young Mind Old Soul [SINGLE OF THE WEEK MONTH? SEPT)

 A heart wrenching message from our Nat (Myers that its) and letting us know some days just be like . . . . . . .well this . . . but he just keeps right on singin’!

I asked Nat if it was okay to post this and responded to his recent post on Flickennabok and he said 'you bin with me from the early days' and 'you don’t need too ask'

in reponse to my hearfelt response to yesterdays missive he called me “brother!”

So proud and it nearly brough a tear to my eye

Soldier on lil Brother Nat

Nat posted "One of those days you wake up tired like you stepping on a trapdoor in the floor of your bones. A loneliness aches in you like an old companion that won’t stop knocking on your door. You break your own heart, frustrated at your circumstances, envisioning the light and life you wanted vs the dark inertias you currently wade. But every day you get stronger, even with death sitting like a wolf in the shade of your heart, even when your eyes have difficulty making sense of the shadows that dog your path. Don’t be like me, sinking into yourself, wading in your woebegone-ness, feeling like you witnessing life go on without me. I know it well. Watching love move on from this minefield kind of living. I make mine my enemies, and deny the better parts of us. Is it any better to recognize it, if the agony sustains?

Today I woke up with a punch in my gut. I get asked all the time what the end goal of this is for me. Music, cancer—hell I ain’t too sure. I know my hearse will cut a lonesome figure headed to my grave. I know there’s work left to do. I know there is music and living left to know. Even with the pain, these days and struggles that nearly drive me to my early death—I survive em, and try to transfigure this heartbreak into something more than just its passing pain—as for me I'm glad & hopeful you will never know what im going thru, or talkin about. but i promise yal, despite these things, im still sitting on top of the world. #folkblues #deltablues #sittingontopoftheworld

Baby Face Leroy Trio - Rollin' And Tumblin' - thanks to Gary Lucas

Baby Face Leroy Trio - Rollin' And Tumblin' - unissued COMPLETE performance

Unissued complete performance of the legendary 1950 Parkway recording "Rollin' And Tumblin;" by the Baby Face Leroy Trio - Leroy Foster (vocals/drums), Little Walter Jacobs (harmonica/vocals) and Muddy Waters (guitar/vocals).   Only recently discovered, this recording - with 2 other unissued Parkway recordings - is available on limited edition 45rpm singles from www.louisrecords.com.    Note: this is a low-fi mp3 - the 45 sounds much better

from Gary (LUCAS that is!)

dedicated to Nat Myers who was feeling blue . . . .hardly a surprise with his constant sterling battle aginst cancer who posted the struggle with his health lays him low some days . . . we know that one don’t we?

The Doors "Been Down So Long (Alternate Version) [LA Woman]

 Some blues (For Nat Myers . . 

The Doors "Been Down So Long (Alternate Version)

By this time Paul Rothschild had walked off listening to what he said was a "lounge band"! and with engineer Bruce (Botnick) hey came up with this best sealing album of ALL TIME!

This is an alternate version of "Been Down So Long", taken from The Doors' L.A. Woman (40th Anniversary Edition). The musicians on the track are: Jim Morrison - vocals Robby Krieger - guitar Ray Manzarek - rhythm guitar John Densmore - drums Jerry Scheff - bass Marc Benno - rhythm guitar Produced by The Doors and Bruce Botnick

No Depression and Nanci Griffith's controversial shift in style . . . . . . .

 

Our next No Depression Criticism Fellowship review from acclaimed journalist and 2026 ND Criticism Fellow, Erin Osmon, is here! The FreshGrass Foundation, our publisher, generously commissioned 4 acclaimed journalists to produce original album critiques and in-depth investigative journalism for the 2026 Fellowship cohort. More info on the Fellowships here. For this Fellowship review, Erin selected a classic album (Storms) from one of the all-time greats, Nanci Griffith! No Depression members enjoy the benefit of full access to high-quality journalism, in-depth stories like this one, and supports No Depression's nonprofit, independent operations. Nanci Griffith’s Texas-specific literary intelligence, exuberant singing, acoustic instruments, and general sparkle remained throughout Storms, and these modern tools and esteemed collaborators simply augmented them. The reaction to the change was a resounding assumption that Griffith was now tainted. In the eyes of the cultural cognoscenti, she was no longer pure.    READ THE FULL REVIEW NOW