Right Wing Freak Show

Hello. How are you?
Me? I was ok until I found this ridiculous article about Fox News. And no, I am not going to give you a link to them. You'll have to find it your self. But what I'm going to give you is brief statement about tact. It use to be something we all knew about it. It use to be how we spoke to one another. A measurement of class.
Now a days, tact is as ancient as an artifact you would find in any British museum. That photo, for instance...the woman in the green with her back turned happens to work for Fox news. She is rallying up the crowd during a Fox news coverage. (sigh) It's a little biased when you have an employee from the news station egging on the crowd. What a bird.
And answer me this...why is she flapping her left wing at a right winged convention?

Who are these people? Luis Russell and His Orchestra might have the right question here...
Luis Russell & His Orchestra – “The (New) Call of the Freaks” mp3

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New Age Concerts

That's Nick Becker playing the gourd with a sword...
I'm just gonna take the photographers word that it sounded interesting. Now you may think of me as old fashion, or maybe out of touch with today's world, but any composer that I've ever known would never put their fingers in such danger. But because I'm a fan of NPR, I found myself reading their concert page at their website. And boy was I in for something unusual. Though I musn't forget that we live in a world of 12 notes repeating themselves. One must figure out a way to avoid monotonous boredom in music. My, my...does he know the sharp end is pointing up?

Now here is a band that we use to consider noise in our day. Very unique blend of instrumentation, they have. A Banjo, Guitar, violin, saxophone, trombone, piano, clarinet and one jug. And I'm just going to guess that this would be easier on my ears, without listening to that sword on a gourd.

Dixieland Jug Blowers – “Boodle-Am Shake” mp3

Health Care Reform Calling Doctor Medicine

Forty percent of employers surveyed said they are likely to increase the amount their workers pay out of pocket for doctor visits. Almost as many said they are likely to raise annual deductibles and the amount workers pay for prescription drugs. Nine percent said they plan to...(continue reading washington post article)

I can only sigh and say the solution for health care in America is very simple. Unless politicians just want to keep playing games with other peoples lives. Simply get the people health care first and then let the journalists continue writing brilliant articles about our economic strife. At least will people will be healthy enough to make changes. There is going to be debt either way.



It should be rather simple. Like, for instance, the composition called Doctor Medicine. It's not very complicated, yet it states something very plain about what people need.

South Memphis Jug Band – “Doctor Medicine” mp3

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Strange Conversation Over Health Care

Hello. It's been quite a while since I have written anything here. Honestly, I have been sucked into the world of politics. Following a few topics, such as the Gay Marriage bill, The economic struggle of America and the latest one which would be the health care issue. Now, I am not sure what the first two topics will inspire in me. But what I will say is that the latest conversation about health care is quite ridiculous. It seems that the only ones who are raising a fuss about it are the ones who already have it.

Maybe those who really need it are too sick, weak and malnourished to speak up.

To me it seems like a conversation between people on a ship and those stuck in the water. It would be nice to at least toss them a life preserver. But they would rather argue from the ship and watch folks tread water.
What an absurd conversation. Here is another one I have found. But at least it's being said over a well arranged song.


Kansas City Kitty and Georgia Tom – “How Can You Have The Blues?” mp3

FYI- I found this wonderful track at Public Domain 2ten (2010)...the year that people start to hear the music again.

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Famous Ellington quotes

Here's a bunch of cool things I said:


1. "A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

2. "Critics have their purposes, and they're supposed to do what they do, but sometimes they get a little carried away with what they think someone should have done, rather than concerning themselves with what they did."

3. "There are two kinds of worries -- those you can do something about and those you can't. Don't spend any time on the latter."

4. "By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with."

5. "My mother told me I was blessed, and I have always taken her word for it. Being born of -- or reincarnated from -- royalty is nothing like being blessed. Royalty is inherited from another human being; blessedness comes from God."

6. "I merely took the energy it takes to pout and wrote some blues."

7. "Gray skies are just clouds passing over."

8. "It is becoming increasingly difficult to decide where jazz starts or where it stops, where Tin Pan Alley begins and jazz ends, or even where the borderline lies between between classical music and jazz. I feel there is no boundary line."

9. "Music is my mistress and she plays second fiddle to no one."

10. "Love is indescribable and unconditional. I could tell you a thousand things that it is not, but not one that it is. Either you have it or you haven't; there's no proof of it."

11. "Roaming through the jungle of 'oohs' and 'ahs', searching for a more agreeable noise, I live a life of primitivity with the mind of a child and an unquenchable thirst for sharps and flats."

12. "The wise musicians are those who play what they can master."

13. "There is hardly any money interest in art, and music will be there when money is gone."

14. "It don't mean a thing if it ain't got that swing."

Tommy TuTone ~ 867-5309

Have I got a treat for you! Here's a real blast from the past that you're going to love.
Now I know this may surprise a lot of folks that know I wasn't keen on rock music in my day.

But I once said there's good songs, and there's the other kind....and there's no denying this is a GREAT song.

It's clever, unique and incredibly catchy. It was a huge hit when it came out in 1982, and it's the cornerstone of this latest release. I think it's very witty to make a phone number the chorus of a song, and it fits the music like a glove!
Hope you enjoy it as much as I have....

Tommy Tutone
"867-5309/Jenny" (mp3)
from "The Singles"
(Spectra Records)
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Hot Little Hands: Scene of the Crime review

Well I've been long associated with being "cool", and so I think this band will fit very well in my blog. They are cool to the extreme of glacial frozen. Their album name caught me at first, and I thought I was in for a big band treat, but it turned out to be some solidly written and recorded rock and roll. I dig rock by the way. I would put rock music under my definition of "good music".

So have a listen, download it, share it with your friends. This number is really something else. it sounds derivative of several bands, but it has so much fire and excitement to it that it sounds brand new.

Hot Little Hands
"Scene of the Crime" (mp3)
from "Dynamite In Black & White"
(Rubber Records)
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