pastures of plenty

there was a brief discussion last night of how karen dalton can really do it (and this is why she is unlistenable) - how in effect what she actually did was brought the anthology alive to the new york folkers - there she was, an actual hillbilly, doing it, and yet she is not so far from us that we cannot see her, this was no historic recording, and yet so strong is her duende you can hear it even on the recordings. there it is, the grain of the voice against the muzzyness of the guitar. the battle just to keep singing.

horsemouth has finished reading the fielding (a voyage to lisbon) - fielding is off to portugal for the sake of his health, but really he’s dying, he won’t last more than a few months. he spends a month becalmed in english waters before the necessary winds blow to take the boat to lisbon. he thinks about the english class system and calls for a set list of prices to stop the workers (and boatmen in particular) selling their labour for best price they can get (and scalping him mercilessly).

horsemouth has done a little research into the influence of ustad ali akbar khan's influence on robbie basho.