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Category Archives: Music
SIOUX CITY SUE
AN LP COVER FOR TODAY
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LONESOME DAY BLUES
The lyrics to this great song contain the following lines:
I am goin’ to teach peace to the conquered,
I’m gonna tame the proud.
Lots of other people have apparently noticed this before, but I just realized that the lines are a paraphrase of some lines in the Aeneid, when Aeneas’s father, Anchises, in the Underworld, tells him what the mission of Rome will be:
. . . to establish peace,
To spare the humbled, and to conquer the proud.
Anchises’s speech also foretells the history of the early Roman kings.
LIVED IN BARS
Keep an eye out for Wliiam Eggleston in the video, which is cool . . .
ANOTHER SELF PORTRAIT
Oh, my goodness . . .
POTATO HEAD BLUES
In my short novel Circus, at Greenbaugh’s Majestic Circus, in the Colored Performers’ Dressing Tent, the guys, including the members of Greenbaugh’s Famous Darkie Orchestra, like to listen to Pops, this song in particular, on a portable Victrola, when getting ready for a show.
Life in the circus during the Depression was rough on everybody, but roughest on the performers of color. Pops gave them courage and hope.
THE DARKTOWN STRUTTERS’ BALL
This song was a favorite of Chief Tam-Tam, from West Africa — leader, in 1935, of the “Ubangi” troupe in Greenbaugh’s Majestic Circus, in my short novel Circus. Tam was homesick and often drunk, dreaming of going back to the old country, but he had a “special friend” at the colored whorehouse in Wichita, Kansas and every time the circus played that town, she took all his money, leaving him no choice but to stay with the show.
SHE STILL LOVES YOU
. . . and you know you should be glad.
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TWO HANDS
A good song for bad times . . .
[Via Ray Sawhill]
THE GLADIATOR MARCH
In my short novel Circus, the band plays this song as it marches off the circus train just after its arrival in Wichita, Kansas in 1935.
FOREPLAY
Pulling the record out of the shelf, removing it from the record cover, then the sleeve, spinning it on the platter, dusting it off with the record brush. Using the needle brush on the needle, setting the needle onto the LP.
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AN LP COVER FOR TODAY
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A MOVIE POSTER FOR TODAY
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WHAT I’M SPINNING NOW
Sounds like Bob and the band are playing live in my living room . . .
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