Blind Joe

Good morning. Here’s a babyfaced Derek Trucks dropping solo on “Midnight In Harlem” that’ll make a grown man cry.

Little sneak peak inside the studio. American Storyteller coming soon! 25 songs...

As he taught, Jesus said, “Watch out for the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and be greeted with respect in the marketplaces, and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets. They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.” — Mark 12:38-40

I love country music and I don’t care what anybody thinks about that 😤

The nuclear weapon thing is actually pretty silly the longer you think about it… “Hey enemy, you better watch it. Don’t you make me go get my nuclear weapon! I may hate you. I may want you obliterated off the face of the Earth. I may use every single other weapon in my arsenal to end you… but if you REALLY piss me off… and I mean REALLY… I swear I’m gonna nuke you!” The whole concept starts to sound akin to an angry dad yelling empty threats at his kids in the back seat… “I’ll turn this car around! You watch! I’ll do it!”

It’s not just the classic authors. I mean read any random letter from any random Civil War soldier writing to his mother or wife back home. Even if the spelling was bad, the writing is just kind of evocative and interesting in a way that nobody communicates today. I read one in a book that was like “As I write this I’m sitting on a narrow dusty road in the cool shade of a magnolia tree which blossoms in vibrant hues of pink and white,” or something along those lines. Paraphrasing but the point is that you read it and immediately know it must have been written 150 years ago because nobody would casually write in such a descriptive way today. We don’t paint pictures with words anymore. And I find that really sad.

I just simply cannot comprehend anyone anywhere at this point thinking anyone working in our government is telling us the truth about anything. Like, how? How you do it?