Along with some musings on our uncertain future.
I chanced upon this video a few months ago. It features Rhiannon Giddens and Paul Simon singing Simon’s American Tune. I put it on my to-do app to post the following Friday, and I’ve been putting it forward a week ever since, for reasons too diverse to go into.
I remember listening to this song when Simon first released it many years ago, thinking how relevant it was to those times. Little did I know that the road we were traveling down then hardly prepared us for the road on which we find ourselves today.
I saw an old friend for the first time in years today, and our conversation was pretty much dominated by the state of our world, more specifically the country in which we live. Try as we might, it’s not easy to be “bright and bon vivant” in what is clearly the “ages most uncertain hour” as the climate deteriorates and half the country embraces fascism.
The song is well worth the listen. In my humble opinion Giddens is a fantastic singer.
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