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Sam Phillips: Love Changes Everything - from A Boot and a Shoe, 2004
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Ordinary finds
From the latest hit to the wisdom of old...
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Sarah McLachlan: Angel - from Surfacing, 1997
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Today’s mini-spotlight on OF falls on Jackson Pollock, the No. 1 Abstract Expressionist in my book: Jan. 28, 1912 - 1956…
“Every good painter paints what he is.” — J.P.
Jackson Pollock, Springs, Long Island (NY), 1949 - photo by Arnold Newman
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Another busy day in London, mainly hanging out with my friend Gorm H. Rasmussen at his book signing at the Idea Generation Gallery in London, where Michael Burdett’s excellent Strange Face show is on…
Gorm wrote an excellent biography of Nick Drake, entitled Pink Moon - A Story about Nick Drake, published by Rocket88, translated by me. Available for pre-orders at all Amazons, or at the gallery if you prefer a signed copy…
Photo of Gorm working and me innocently standing by, in front of eight of Michael’s photos of people listening to Cello Song…
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Bobby “Blue” Bland: Cold Day In Hell - from Dreamer, 1974
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Kate Wolf was a fine Californian singer/songwriter who died of cancer at merely 44 years of age (Jan. 27, 1942 - 1986).
Wolf wrote songs that were memorably covered by better vocalists than herself, including Nanci Griffith and Emmylou Harris, but her own recordings are also charming and worth seeking out. “Across the Great Divide” is one great piece of Americana…
Kate Wolf: Across the Great Divide - from Gold in California: A Retrospective of Recordings (1975-1985)
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Cowboy Junkies: River Waltz - from Rarities, B-Sides and Slow, Sad Waltzes, 1999
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Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwocky as imagined by Sir John Tenniel…
`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe;
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
`Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!’
Lewis Carroll was also a keen photographer and produced quality portraits of many prominent persons in his day. He is, however, chiefly remembered for his photos of young girls, which to some indicate a less than savoury interest in young children on Carroll’s part.
Other scholars contend that these images are typical of the Victorian cult of childhood and innocence…
Carroll’s favorite subject was young Alice who also inspired the Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass tales…
“If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is, because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary wise, what is, it wouldn’t be. And what it wouldn’t be, it would. You see?”
Above: Alice Liddell by Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson), spring 1860 - wet collodion glass plate negative (NPG, London)
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