We just can’t get enough of Tuba Skinny today so we is a gonna post another tune from them to send us off to sleep.
Gnite y’all and may you have sweet dreams wherever you are.
Tuba Skinny – Going Back Home – Royal Street 2012
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Music
Beard rhythms
Sunday Morning Blues
Honey, these blues’l take any blues away.
Damn they is good…
Papa’s got your bath water on – Tuba Skinny – The Little Brown Church – Live 2017
So Happy Together!
It’s been a rough day.
We all have ‘em once in a while.
When having such a day, I like to listen to a tune that makes me feel good.
Today I need this tune.
Happy Together – The Turtles – 1967
Here Comes The Sun
Just released is a newly updated digital mix of the Beatles classic Here Comes The Sun.
Appropriately timed we might add.
The Beatles – Here Comes The Sun – 2019
Simple and beautiful.
It’s time
Be vigilant.
Seek truth.
Speak honestly.
Act with integrity.
Respect your neighbor.
Uphold righteousness.
Help those in need.
Defend democracy.
Protest corruption.
Support good.
Timely music
For some reason this tune just seems appropriate at this moment in time.
Judy Garland – Get Happy – Summer Stock – 1950
🎼 Get ready for the judgement day!🎶🎵
I’ll fly away
Growing up in Appalachia , this tune is one I know from childhood.
I consider life a gift from a power, essence or spirit that I don’t understand. Part of that gift is that I don’t have to understand where the gift comes from. I get to experience the love and beauty without ever feeling in debt to do or return anything.
As I wasn’t here before my life, I will not be here after it. I will physically be gone from here and now, but not necessarily gone from what we understand to be a universe. I don’t need to know anything more than that.
When I die I wish to be cremated. I wish for my ashes to be discretely dropped on a specific hillside above the sea on a nearby Southern California Island known as Catalina. No one is to know, but the couple of close loved ones who accidentally drop my ashes there, exactly where this spot is. As my ashes are dropped, they will start to fly out over the land and the sea. Those that find the land their home will continue to both blow into the wind as well as meld into the earth eventually eroding their way into air and the nearby sea as well.
Therefore my body and my spirit shall fly away, wash away and float away. I’ll still be here and there. I’ll be wherever I’m supposed to be.
Rising Appalachia – I’ll Fly Away – traditional live – 2012
Simple and beautiful, enjoy.
Note: If those whom I love and love me wish to gather for any type of memorial after I am gone, they are free to do so in any fashion just as long as it’s fun, celebratory, simple and this traditional Appalachian folk tune is played.
Beard Music
In honor of World Beard Day, we post the most famous and legendary Beards of all time, ZZ Top.
ZZ Top – Sharp Dressed Man – 1983
Answer me this: What more could Sharp Dress a man than a Beard?
🎼 Just say to me what you want from me 🎶
Often the illusion is that the easier path for dealing with problems is to run away from them, avoid them or ignore them.
In my experience avoidance is my default. I have found that I must remind myself daily that the true easier path is to acknowledge my problem, feel that emotions surrounding my problem and then to face the problem and walk through it. Not all problems are easily resolved. However I’ve found that the only way they are ever resolved is to deal with them head on. No matter how hard issues appear, resolution is always easier and better than running away.
Lil Nas X , Fearsome’s favorite out and proud rapper, dropped this new tune this morning. I found it’s message helpful in many ways.
Lil Nas X – Panini – Official Video – 2019
Visualize what you want. Say what you want. Move toward what you want.
Saturday tune
As I prepared for bed last evening, Fearsome insisted on some YouTube time. We stumbled upon this beautiful piece. Being originally from Appalachia we found it both original yet nostalgic. Therefore today we share.
Rising Appalachia- Cuckoo – 2019
Simply beautiful!
Enjoy your Saturday!
Yes Matilda
Yes Matilda, there is still beauty in this world. It’s time we, or at least I, stopped to take a breath and enjoy such beauty. A mental health break of sorts…
Saint-Saens – Danse Macabre – for two pianos, op.40
Stunning.
Go ask Alice, when she’s ten feet tall
50 years ago today:
Jefferson Airplane – White Rabbit – Grace Slick – Woodstock – August 17, 1969
I don’t remember Woodstock even though one of the earliest memories I have is the Lunar landing in 1969. Woodstock is in good company as I don’t remember Stonewall either. Even though 1969 is spotty in my memory bank, I am happy that I was around to at the least remember a few events that happened in that year packed with many historical landmarks.
Macklemore – Shadow
Macklemore just dropped a new one.
No video, just the tune. Sobriety and the struggle within. Thank you Macklemore, I understand and I stand with you.
No Blacks, No Jews and No Gays
This is a disco tune that went past my teenage radar back during my youth and that great era of disco. It’s a tune I found later in life when reliving that bygone era. I fell in love with this tune.
Needless to say that the very first time I heard this tune the lyrics of the headline above stopped me in my tracks.
What the fuck? No Blacks, No Jews and No Gays?
Then I really listened to the message given through such a moving beat. A message that needs to be heard, must be heard.
Now all these years later I’m like “What the fuck?” This tune needs to be heard again? Does nothing ever fucking change?
Ok, ok , ok yes I’m on a soap box, but dammit people… We are not White, Black, Jew, Gay, Muslim, Mexican or PURPLE for that matter. We are human and we must care for each other, live together and care for our planet plus the creatures on it, or else we are fucked. Fucked.
Please click play, please feel the beat and move your tush. Please be kind to someone today that they may pass the kindness and understanding onto another. We have to start somewhere and dammit I start by saying I love you, care for you and wish to lift you higher.
Smooches!
There but for the grace of god, there go I – Machine – 1979
Imagine
Imagine peace.
Imagine love.
Imagine respect.
Imagine passion.
Imagine empathy.
Imagine happiness.
Imagine beauty.
Imagine kindness.
Imagine forgiveness.
Imagine understanding.
Imagine harmony.
Imagine hope.
Imagine joy.
Wow just wow. This guy is phenomenal. Even more phenomenal than just that beard. Brought me to tears.
Chris Klafford – Imagine – 2019 – America’s Got Talent
Have faith in you and the things you do
This tune is always good for a twirl. This tune is also fitting for any Pride anywhere and anytime. Happy San Diego Pride 2019 Y’all!
Sister Sledge – We Are Family – 1979
Fearsome wishes to dedicate this to a certain Blogger who will be visiting San Diego this week.
One by One
We change hearts and minds One by One.
Let’s kick off San Diego Pride 2019 by sharing love, joy, peace and respect with all of those around us.
Cher – One by One – 1996
Happy San Diego Pride Y’all!
On the Town
New York New York, it’s a helluva town!
Opening on Broadway in September – On the Town – and now on my bucket list!
Here is the same clip from the original 1949 film by the same name. One might recognize a star or two…
His Eyes Were Blue
Ty Herndon – What Mattered Most (remastered) – 2019
Funny, the old version didn’t make me cry.
Old Town Road
It’s a certain holiday that I don’t feel like celebrating today. I’m a gonna clean house, bathe the dogs, catch up on some odds- n -ends and maybe bake a cake.
I’ve got my California state flag a flyin’ on the pole out in front of my house.
So I’ll leave this here and wish you a great day.
Lil Nas X – featuring Billy Ray Cyrus – Old Town Road – 2019
