My wife and I just got home after two all day trips on the train up from Charleston. Dead tired, and home to a house in chaos. We’re having a new kitchen installed, and will be entering the modern age, where you can access things in your cabinets and a machine washes your dishes. For the moment, however, we are back to the 19th century. No refrigerator, no stove, no kitchen sink. Ah well, this too shall pass.<\/p>\n
On to blogging.<\/p>\n
Having just returned from the South, I thought I would put up some music that has at least a touch of the South in it. Then, after that, I promise, no more about the South until someone down there does something really stupid. Say, as stupid as the next thing out of Donald Trump’s mouth.<\/p>\n
The first thing that popped to mind was The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down<\/em>. No go. Embedding is disabled on all of the versions by The Band. Johnny Cash does a great acoustic version, but for reasons unknown, to me at least, only about a third of the song is available on youtube. I could never stomach Joan Baez’s version, whether she sings to Muppets (yes, she sings the song to Muppets) or an audience, so she was never in the running. <\/p>\n So, I settled on Creedence Clearwater Revival, most of whose songs have a Southern flavor to them. <\/p>\n Proud Mary<\/em><\/p>\n