MERLE TRAVIS- THIS IS REAL COUNTRY

I suspect Chet Atkins got his inspiration from Merle. Any of you  readers from Kentucky and Tennessee will love this real music. I especially think of the folks I spoke to in a little Bible church up a coal mining river valley in southern Kentucky in the town of Putney. 

For you people who never have been in Kentucky, that "u" in Putney has a pronunciation all its own. The deacon told me if I could not learn to say Putney right I would not get the offering. I learned, and I bet I will go back and visit those folks again some day.

He also told me I had come down there from Detroit, but I would go home to Deee-troit. 

So, here is the Nine Pound Hammer, a tool most essential to survival in Kentucky.



I have never seen double wides perched on the side of mountains like in Kentucky. They had one edge against the mountain and the rest of the double wide hanging on thin air. I asked how they got them into those spots and was told with a Caterpillar tractor. Once they get them there they are never moved again.

YO MAMMA SAY, "EAT YO APPLE"

Yo Mamma from the hood is pushing apples under the counter.


We need a blood test of NFL players for malic acid.

THE GIBSON BROTHERS FROM NORTH CAROLINA

I just needed to show you a bluegrass group
that is all music and no affect.



BUT, when these boys get crazy,
no one can keep up with them.....

THERE IS A DIM BULB IN THE CHAMBER THAT NEEDS REPLACING

And, here he is.............

WHAT DO YOU CALL IT WHEN VLADIMIR PUTIN IS STANDING ON A CRACKER?

Answer: Putin on the Ritz

And, though this is a year old, and some of you have seen it, this flash mob in Russia is amazing. The crowd participation is exceptional also.

MUSICAL START TO THE NEW YEAR- 2014

I thought it only fitting to start the New Year by raising the level of artistic forms in music. Modern music lacks the art content and articulation common to music long ago. 

At age 70 I long for the music of my earlier years, so here I give you a tune commonly played on classical music radio station KFWB in Los Angeles in 1959.

MUSICAL ART FORMS FROM LONG AGO

I truly regret messing with your mind like that. 

Here is a serious song about nature and the creatures that populate our earth and make our hearts sing:

MUSICAL OFFERING
ON A MORE PROFOUND NOTE

Well, that did not work out either. I shall thus go clear away from our own nation with its profane music and give you a sampling of something from the Congo in Africa:

POIGNANT MUSIC FROM THE DEEP JUNGLES

Get out of here, all of you. 

You people just expect too much from the past anyway.

:-)