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Music

  • Tax Time

    We received a final tax document last week — an explanation of the coronavirus relief check sent on the last day of 2020. There is about a month to file taxes on time in the United States. I do ours and help our daughter with hers. It’s time to get to work on them. The… Read more

  • Juke Box – Red Dirt Road

    Getting a late start today, and no, I didn’t stay up late to hear the full U.S. Senate reading of the American Rescue Plan. Here’s one of my favorites songs. Make it a great Friday! Read more

  • Music Was It

    Music was a significant part of my life until it wasn’t. The beginning was clear as daylight: the Beatles performance on the Ed Sullivan Show, Sunday, Feb. 9, 1964. In December that year, Mother took me to the King Korn Stamp store where she traded stamps for a Kay guitar. The guitar was my birthday… Read more

  • Juke Box – Gas Station Women

    Here’s one by Phil Ochs. “Fill ‘er up with love please won’t you mister? Just the Hi-Test is what I used to say. But that was before I lost my baby. I’ll have a dollar’s worth of regular today.” Happy Friday! Read more

  • Juke Box – To Beat the Devil

    Busy weekend ahead. Here’s a Johnny Cash version of a Kris Kristofferson song. Read more

  • Juke Box – I’ll Fly Away

    Taking the weekend to get chores done so I can focus on the election. “Get busy living or get busy dying.” ~ Stephen King. Read more

  • Juke Box – Jubilee

    Today’s forecast is to be sunny beginning late morning, clear, and with a high of 52 degrees. I’m prepping to get outside and don’t have a lot of availability for screen time and related reading and writing before the sun comes up at 6:43 a.m. in an hour or so. I’m leaving this here. Have… Read more

  • Juke Box – Crossroads

    Cream: Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. This group came together and dissolved while I was in high school, before I knew it. Few bands were as good as this one was. Taking a couple days to work on other projects, in the meanwhile… Read more

  • Juke Box – Wide Open Spaces

    I’m going on hiatus from this blog until after Sept. 9. In the meanwhile, here’s one of the songs we chose for Mom’s funeral. Hope to see you mid-September. Read more

  • Uncle John’s Band

    It’s time for a brief hiatus to focus on 5:30 a.m. sunrises and clear days in the garden. I’ve been listening to tracks from the Grateful Dead’s 1989 concert at Alpine Valley in East Troy, Wisc. Uncle John’s Band is a favorite performance. My main experience with the Dead was during my undergraduate years when… Read more