RALPH RODDENBERY BANDVassar Clements Holiday Band DVD
(DIRTY LINEN MAGAZINE REVIEW)"Documenting the final [recorded] performance of fiddler Vassar Clements, (1928-2005), this DVD celebrates the fruits of more than a half-century of paying dues. With the performance at the Seney-Stovall Chapel, in Athens, Georgia, divided between two one-time-only bands, Clements masterfully mixes bluegrass classics ("Foggy Mountain Breakdown" and "Old Joe Clark") with uplifting "hillbilly jazz" treatments of Django Reinhardt and Sonny Rollins instrumentals. The intimacy of a backstage rehearsal, included as a bonus track, helps to make this DVD a fitting memorial to one of the past century's great musicians." Chip Harris (Chicopee, MA)VASSAR CLEMENTS & HIS HOLIDAY BAND DVD, 2 hrs. AVAILABLE AT: ATHENSMUSIC.NET, HITTINTHENOTE.COM, NUCI.ORG, or email: [email protected] for more INFO.
above: TJ sandwich with Michael and Buddy of NRPS. 2 folks we have special appreciation for!"As sea ice decreases, polar bear females may not gain enough weight to reproduce cubs with enough insulating fat, jeopardizing their ability to survive."
"Polar bears, the world's strongest swimmers, are being forced to swim further and further to ever-distant ice floes. Four were found drowned in the Bering Strait."
*HELP STOP GLOBAL WARMING*(Laughter was his best medicine! Backstage with Vassar and David Blackmon; Dec 04)
*David Blackmon, sitting. Vassar looking on with the ever-smile!** gardening, music, our dogs, studying something new or learning more about what i thought i knew. family, friends, camping. clean air, clean water and NO SB 510 in Georgia!
(riparian buffers need protection). This shows what happens when the buffers are not protected - the 'handy work' of LandSouth Developers; builders of Creekside Cottages, Bogart, GA.
i am privleged to view this every day!
Let's call this: Support Your Local Artists!..(With Merl Saunder and Deborah, San Fran. He is still tickling the ivories!)
STIR FRIED w/ Vassar! (Thanks Joanne and SF)!Miss 'big bands' compositions; with string and woods and arrangements. Love Scottish bagpipes & Uilleann pipes, Celtic music first off. CHECK OUT: CelticFusion.ORG. Allman Bros., Mother's Finest, Stevie Ray Vaughn..and big appreciation for: Ornette Coleman,BB King, Odetta, Pete Seeger, Ledbelly, Woody Guthrie, Burl Ives, J. Tull, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Merl Saunders, Stevie Wonder, Aretha, bagpipes, Kinks, Zeppelin, John Hiatt, BGUG, John Hartford, U2, Rage A. T. Machine, and too many to list. Likely, I enjoy yours'.
Akira Kurosawa movies(Red Beard, Kagemusha, Rashomon, 7th Samurai), notable Jackie Chan! Sound of Music, Mary Poppins, Das Boot, Wizard of Oz, Tin Drum, To Kill a Mockingbird, Vertigo, And most anything Johnny Depp steps into.(Geoff Atchison and Jorma at Fur Peace Ranch) thanks Billiant Productions!
Hx Channel, If Walls Could Talk, and PUBLIC TELEVISION in general is great - SO SUPPORT YOUR LOCAL/PUBLIC STATION!Honestly, does it get much better than this?! Geoff Achison and Les Paul (aka, Lester Polsfuss). more on Geoff, go to Myspace.com/GeoffAchison or Myspace.com/BrilliantProductions.
A great book for apothacaries/gardeners, etc: 'Potpourri, Incense and Other Concoctions' by Ann Tucker - avail. at Amazon.com. (it's a 'family' book, so I recommend it)
My grandmother Margaret, my daughter, Dr. MLK, Anne Frank, Vassar Clements, A.A. Milne, Pete Seeger, Helen Keller, Anis Nin, Harry Chapin, Carl Sandburg, Louie Armstrong, ee cumming, Burl Yves, Otis Redding, Leonard Cohen. And almost anyone with a good sense of humor and good sense! You know who you are.