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And that kicks off the psychedelic portion of tonight’s musical celebartions…
Donovan: Wear Your Love Like Heaven - from Wear Your Love Like Heaven, 1967
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From the latest hit to the wisdom of old...
A very happy birthday to Donovan, who turns 67 today!
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Sonny Curtis, guitar player and singer for The Crickets, and stellar songwriter - 76 today…
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Today is the birthday of the great Romanian poet of light, Lucian Blaga (May 9, 1895 - 1961). From his 1919 debut volume of poetry Poemele luminii a poem in my translation…
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Lucian Blaga: Lovely Hands
My prediction:
Lovely hands, which now enfold within
your warmth my head full of dreams,
you shall also in time enfold
the urn holding my ashes.
My dream:
Lovely hands, when warm lips shall blow
my ashes into the wind
from the chalice of your palms,
you shall be like flowers
whose pollen are swept away on the breeze.
And my sorrow:
You shall be as youthful as you are now, lovely hands.
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Birthday of Keith Jarrett (b. May 8, 1945) who - unlike virtually every other pianist in the world - has equal credentials within the strictly regulated world of classical music where the performer’s role is to interpret the composer’s score as exactly as possible, and within the world of jazz and free solo improvisation where Jarrett was the undisputed king throughout the 70s and 80s…
Keith Jarrett: Lalene - from Facing You, 1971
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Robert Johnson was born 102 years ago. Shortly after that he went down to the cross-roads…
Robert Johnson: Love in Vain, 1937
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The ever-recurrent challenge for a visually oriented blog - how to celebrate intensely private authors such as Thomas Pynchon, who contrary to my hopes did not celebrate his 76th birthday today by going on Facebook with a fully public profile…
Ah well, now we have Instagram - which I am sure will cure his dislike of cameras once and for all!
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Grateful Dead: China Cat Sunflower / I Know You Rider
Recorded Live: February 19, 1971 - Capitol Theater, Port Chester, New York
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Bill Kreutzmann, drummer of the Grateful Dead - 67 today…
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Christy Moore: Gortatagort - from Listen, 2009
John Spillane’s beautiful poem of place and specificity:
Where God goes to sleep in the hills and the valleys
Where the Moon rises over The Haggart
Where peace descends on Gortatagort
Where the angels bleed over Bantry Bay
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Jimmy Ruffin: I’ve Passed This Way Before - from The Jimmy Ruffin Way, 1967
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