at the sign of the green parakeet (in the hills in kentucky at election time)

last night much music (of the on tv and on the computer sort). 

the 1969 memphis country blues festival featured many of the people horsemouth is interested in (john fahey, 'backwards' sam firk, bill barths, bukka white, mississippi fred mcdowell, the bar-keys, johnny winter etc.).

fahey takes part in a jug band. there's a blues dude playing mandolin (so it can be done). 

mississippi fred mcdowell also makes it into southern journey revisited a travelling back through the towns visited by alan lomax and shirley collins getting in touch with the families and communities of the musicians they visited (sky arts 9pm). 

as someone comments of mississippi fred mcdowell most people just frail at the guitar mcdowell plays exactly the same tune as he is singing on the topmost strings with the slide (and keeps time with the other strings). 

before this they are up in the hills in kentucky at election time. 

right now horsemouth is just up (and typing badly). just outside the window is a green parakeet. while the smaller birds are adept at using the bird feeders the parakeet is just too big and contemplates a greater larceny (trying to bite through the supporting carabiners for example - hooligan). ah that one has been chased off by another parakeet (that's also having only limited luck with the bird feeders).  

it's ok, it's after seven. it's a perfectly decent time to be up.  

instead of the predicted rain decent sunshine. it seems to be clouding over. 

horsemouth has decamped to his cat-sitting gig. he's just had his coffee. last night he cooked and ate. he hooked up to the broadband  (and watched tv).

the susan sontag has moved on to an appreciation of anna banti's  artemisia - like lampedusa's the leopard in part a mourning of the family house (destroyed in the second world war like lampedusa's house), in part like tsypkin's summer in baden-baden a novel with two time tracks both of which concern writing. next up victor serge. horsemouth has dug up his copy of the tsypkin and of pasternak's safe conduct (as mentioned by sontag) and will have a go at (re) reading them. 

so if horsemouth  isn't musicians of bremening it (musicaly speaking) what will he be up to? he will have to reactivate his other musical connections and get on with it (he supposes).  there is a raft of material he could be getting on with (kind of like the material he used to get on with as horsemouthfolk). 

that reminds him he should repo his guitar from howards.