Music of the Moment

I found another, far less violent version of the story from Jean Ritchie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A1zBotTE8J0

These bluegrass people, always trying to turn things into a murder ballad! But it's possible they have a point. Inability to garden could be linked to emotional issues. In Martin Prechtel's The Unlikely Peace of Cuchumaquic, he relates the story of being approached by a young woman with suicidal thoughts who was desperate for some advice. What he said (through the haze of a migraine) was, in Mayan culture, suicidal thoughts tend to be the result of applying oneself to unsuitable pursuits for too long. (I'll have to find the original quote maybe? That's as I remember.) Somewhere in the conversation, annoyed and in pain, he said he bet she was too lazy to grow corn, and gave her a kernel (or more? It was a year ago I read it.)

The next time he saw her, she was married, with a young child, and carrying sacks of corn in unexpectedly at a talk he was giving, and when he asked about the suicidal thoughts it didn't even register; she had forgotten about them.

Noor Zehra live in New Delhi, playing Sagar Veena

This is an instrument her father invented. Apparently, she is the only player of it in the world at this moment.

Raymond Crooke, “A Gest of Robyn Hode” (Child #117)

Jane's Addiction - "Then She Did..."

This song will take you places. My favourite song of theirs, from one of the best rock albums of the '90s.

George Jones - "The Race Is On"

I first heard this song earlier this year, when I found a TIME-LIFE compilation on CD and started playing it in the car on long drives. Apart from some Patsy Cline songs, this is the one that sticks with me the most.

This is a live version, apparently from 1970.

I realized yesterday that—it was March 16, and I was listening to the album March 16-20, 1992 by Uncle Tupelo. I’ve been listening again and again through the month.

I also noticed how much the bouzouki adds to this album—such a unique sound to it.

Pentangle—Springtime Promises