a musical salute to some friends, and a spirit which needs a bit rebornin'.
amurkan music, the best of end of empire. how strange the lyrics remain so appropriate, perhaps powerful, today. Danke Scorsese for doing such a good job.
Als Geburtstag Geschenk, please play this loud. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaďs Nin
Rick, for visiting me in my tipi in the earliest hippy days, and trading Hank Williams songs around the fire. Garth, for believing in Hiawatha, and rockin the keys. Levon, because, well, because i remember how much fun the kids had playing under your cymbals during a particularly wild show. And because you are my hero, singing again after they almost took out your throat.
And Robbie, thank you for waking up to your heritage, Mohawk, and all the friends you put on the album.
Enough maudlin, back to the end of empire. (Don't forget, this was Dylan's electric band which changed everything around '65). Now look, tuxes and all. I'm guilty too.)
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaďs Nin
this was Dylan's electric band which changed everything around '65
Right.
Happy Birthday, CH.
I don't mind choppin' wood, An I don't care if the money's no good, Take what you need and you leave the rest, But they should never have taken the very best!
This evokes the frontier subsistence ethic that informed the lives of generations of my ancestors. Try telling Wall Street "Take what you need and you leave the rest"! They throw everything into the wood chipper of the market economy. On this I stand with my ancestors--Scots-Irish, English, Dutch, Chreokee, who knows what else. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
And while Levon remained true to his Arkie roots (there's great video of the band in mamma's kitchen), he's lived in Woodstock almost nonstop since the late sixties. Part of his beautiful barn has always been his recording studio, where the monthly MIDNIGHT RAMBLE takes place. Imagine being in the audience of just 2 hundred or so while the greats of amurkan music join him live. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaďs Nin
The Tuscarora were allowed to join after being booted from their homeland, thus the Six Nations
That was the story as I knew it. The Tuscarora were a way south in what was in the process of becoming North Carolina (early eighteenth century). When they'd had enough of playing nice with settlers who stole their children and "squatted" their land, and they came off worse in fighting (glorified by the name of the Tuscarora War), they migrated north, invited by the Five Nations as their brothers of the Sixth. Events that took place between about 1710 and 1720.
George Washington was quite happy to negotiate a treaty with the Cherokee to secure his flank and he honored the treaty through his administration, as best he could. That perhaps gave them a false impression of what dealing with the United States would be like. As the Dutch said while fighting the Spanish: "It is not necessary to have hope in order to persevere."
Try telling Wall Street "Take what you need and you leave the rest"! They throw everything into the wood chipper of the market economy. On this I stand with my ancestors--Scots-Irish, English, Dutch, Chreokee, who knows what else.
you can't top that advice. perhaps we should coordinate thousands of speakers in southern manhattan for a bit of re-education of the banking class. "Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage." - Anaďs Nin
Thinking of it, I must be a EUlipian... "Ce qui vient au monde pour ne rien troubler ne mérite ni égards ni patience." René Char
