GET AWAY, OLD MAIDS, GET AWAY by Chubby Parker 1931/Riposte! From THE DUBLINERS!

This from Art From the Future via  mudwerks

 GET AWAY, OLD MAIDS, GET AWAY by Chubby Parker (1931)

LUKE KELLY and the Boys address the issue in hand!! (ahem!)

Marcha Procesional Dos Mato - Susana Seivane (1999) | ART FROM THE FUTURE/and MUDWERKS

 This is lovely . . . Susana Seivane and her Galician pipes

Art From the Future and mudwerks

Seriously it’s a thing . . . . . . from american primitives/ mudwerks +

 

Election Grief Is Real. Here’s How to Cope

Understanding the psychology of ambiguous loss can help people struggling with grief and depression in the wake of the 2024 election results

SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN

  https://www.tumblr.com/americanprimitives/766630226135482368/election-grief-is-real-heres-how-to-cope?source=share

I found this too if anyone is feeling too downhearted . . . . . 

Sent by Joan Haiifax a Buddhist Roshi. Its from Rebecca Solnit:

They want you to feel powerless and to surrender and to let them trample everything and you are not going to let them. You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving. You may need to grieve or scream or take time off, but you have a role no matter what, and right now good friends and good principles are worth gathering in. Remember what you love. Remember what loves you. Remember in this tide of hate what love is. The pain you feel is because of what you love. The Wobblies used to say don’t mourn, organize, but you can do both at once and you don’t have to organize right away in this moment of furious mourning.

You can be heartbroken or furious or both at once; you can scream in your car or on a cliff; you can also get up tomorrow and water the flowerpots and call someone who’s upset and check your equipment for going onward. A lot of us are going to come under direct attack, and a lot of us are going to resist by building solidarity and sanctuary. Gather up your resources, the metaphysical ones that are heart and soul and care, as well as the practical ones.

People kept the faith in the dictatorships of South America in the 1970s and 1980s, in the East Bloc countries and the USSR, women are protesting right now in Iran and people there are writing poetry. There is no alternative to persevering, and that does not require you to feel good. You can keep walking whether it’s sunny or raining. Take care of yourself and remember that taking care of something else is an important part of taking care of yourself, because you are interwoven with the ten trillion things in this single garment of destiny that has been stained and torn, but is still being woven and mended and washed.

Source: mudwerks   who is a musician. blogger and picture and music poster . . . . . . . 

rebecca solnit Joan Haiifax Lynda Barry

"Lord, what fools these mortals be! "

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Mornin’! Istanbul (Not Constantinople) | Nobody's business but the Turks! | mudwerks

From a favourite picture site and go visit he makes his own music too and its GOOD! 

mudwerks

Istanbul (not Constantinople) - The Four Lads

FRIDAY YOU SAY!? | The CACKLE SISTER - ARIZONA YODELER! | Mudwerks

 I really don’t post enough from mudwerks . . . I visit him every day!

(he writes and plays his own stuff ya know!?) really talented

but he posted this and it seemed about right to start your Friday!? 

THE CACKLE SISTERS!

 mudwerks

Cackle Sisters - Arizona Yodeler

Tracks of My Tears! SATURDAY SOUNDS | Well songs of the Day from guest source NEBULOUSLY BURNISHED!!!

 I think most if not all of this morning’s posts are from one of my two favourite picture bloggers and this one is from NEBULOUSLY BURNISHED who I have been following for the longest time and I only just realised a couple of things and that is she has been posting pictures of herself lately! and that: She is a young woman! I don’t think I ever really thought much about what gender the poster was but it threw me somehow! Mudwerks who I also follow religiously (sic!) he posts music of his own and picture resources ad infinitum somehow all the time and more and faster than I!) He was clearly a chap as he used a picture of himself but Nebulously . . .  I didn’t really think was a gal!? Why? What is THAT all about! When I saw her picture I was so pleasantly surprised it made my day somehow! WEIRD !

Today she has posted the following great tracks:

She starts the day with this . . . bear with me an ear worm I know and whilst I am not so much of a later Bee Gees fan (it’s all that falsetto!) this is classic film track and no mistake . . . . . 

Bee Gees Stayin Alive (Extended Remaster)

Gilbert O'Sullivan - Alone Again (original version)

again deceptively well written and the song structure alone is worthy of closer inspection, great piece of heartfelt writing I reckon!

Stereophonics - Dakota (Official Video)

I wonder if he means Johnson or Fanning? I like both so it’s all good!

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Are You The One  ( I’ve Been Waiting  For)

awesome song, heartfelt and moving . . . . about his wife?!

The Stranglers - Always The Sun (Official Video)1990

deceptively glorious a song . . . . playing it straight and have followed them  since the very first album!

and this indeed is she!

Curator of things.…..

@nebulously-burnished

ALL THE NEWS THAT’S FIT TO PRINT : 639 YEAR JOHN CAGE PIECE PLAYS CHORD AFTER TWO YEARS!!

 THIS IS BRILLIANT!

From my ‘friend’ Mudwerks’ blog comes this news

John Cage "As Slow As Possible" Performance Changes Chords For The First Time In Two Years

Organ Playing 639-Year Version Of John Cage's "As Slow As Possible" Changes Chords

For the first time in two years.

mudwerks

"Monday, the organ played its first chord change in exactly two years. As the BBC explains, volunteers added another pipe into the organ to create a new sound. The next chord change is scheduled for August 5, 2026. The first 21 months of the performance were a rest — that is, complete silence. That’s 163,938 performances of 4’33”!"

1959 HITS ARCHIVE: Woo-Hoo - Rock-A-Teens | via Art From The Future and Mudwerks

Thanks to Art From The Future

I always enjoy a visit and this is why!

or Mudwerks here . . .

both brilliant art sources but muses too!

Mudwerks posts his own music and it is always worth a listen he’s very good! Treat yourself, really!

From my fellow blogger, singer songwriter and arts aficionado! 

MUDWERKS

this really struck me this morning so I share it here with you!

Noted Guitarist and Folk Singer Mary McCaslin has died aged 75

Mary McCaslin in 1968.Credit...Glen Gorseclose, via FLi Artists

 Mary McCaslin, Folk Singer Who Lamented The Lost Old West Dies at 75

From Wiki : McCaslin met singer-songwriter Jim Ringer in 1972, and began performing with him. They married in 1978, and as a duo released the album The Bramble & the Rose. They moved to San Bernardino, California. McCaslin separated from him in 1989. Ringer died in 1992 after a long illness, and McCaslin provided the liner notes for a retrospective album of his songs: The Best of Jim Ringer.

McCaslin was busy with family matters for most of the 1980s, finally releasing a new album, Broken Promises, in 1994. She died from progressive supranuclear palsy (PSP), a rare neurological condition a form of Parkinson's that can cause problems with balance, movement, vision, speech and swallowing.

McCaslin, who also played banjo and ukulele, was self-taught, and her open guitar tuning — tuning the strings to sound like a specific chord, as Joni Mitchell did — distinguished her guitar playing.

“While Joni’s tunings were more jazz-inflected,” said Mitch Greenhill, president of Folklore Productions/Fli Artists, who managed Ms. McCaslin and her first husband, the folk singer Jim Ringer, starting in the mid-70s, “Mary’s went the opposite way. They were more angular, more Celtic sounding. And she always put the tunings on her albums, which aspiring musicians always appreciated.”

Tunings are a never-ending hole of possibility. especially if you don’t limit it to western 12-tone standards. 

Now we have mentioned guitar tunings before and I am a fan of trying different tunings so this came as a revelation, Mary has the most haunting voice and her guitar playing is exceptional and of great interest to folk like me!

Check this out . . . 

Way Out West - Mary McCaslin

Mary McCaslin - photo Shmuel Thaler - Santa Cruz Sentinel

I am indebted to mudwerks for the heads up that she had passed away . . . . . . .great blog and singer songwriter guitarist himself