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Pierpoint Morgan in Egypt

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Pierpoint Morgan in Egypt.  Twas “the gorgeous barbaric beauty of the church in the early days” that led the barron robber to peruse Coptic Egypt's  antiquity.

WRITE IT DOWN IN THE BOOK SAID HABBUK

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HB. 1-2-3; 2/22-4 (142) How long, o lord? I cry for help but you do not listen! I cry out to you “Violence!”     but you do not intervene. Why do you let me see ruin Why must I look at misery? Destruction and violence are before me; There is strife and clamorous discord. Then the lord answered & said:    Write down the vision Clearly upon the tablets so that one can read it readily. For the vision still has Its time presses on to fulfillment & will not disappoint If it delays, wait for it it will surely come it will not be late the rash man has no Integrity but the just man because he has faith – shall live. Found in book on Calumet St in 2014, Boston, Mass. USA This seems to be a scribe's recreation of portion  of book of Habbuk.It appears on the back side of Reserve Room Book routing slip  

From the vaults - Walking up the Mission Hill

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Walking up the Mission Hill Past the summer porches During the 4th quarter Each TV tuned to the Game 4 Cheers coming out loud I know we are coming back See Tall Preston and ask the score The Celts just moved two points ahead.            -Jack Vaughan, Jun 2008 To read the rest of the story .

Redhead's selfie

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We dont usually accept these submissions. But this was, er, priceless.

Remembering Little Walter

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I was driving around tonight and heard some great music on the car radio. I thought it might be Little Walter. It was Sugar Ray Norcia doing Walter's Mean Old World.  Turns out there is a tribute record to Little Walter just out…it was recorded live and includes Billy Boy Arnold (a great player who was contemporary with Walter, and who doesnt lay down recording tracks too much), the great Charlie Musselwhite,  Sugar Ray, and others.   Ray is from Providence and had a band with Ronnie Earl way back, and has just gotten better and better. The cool thing about the concert/recording is that all these guys were able to just riff on Walter as homage – other nights somebody might say they were copping riffs – but the Blues Pope gave the absolution here. Little Walter would have been 80 two weeks ago, if he hadn’t been beaten up in an alley a long time ago (the 60s).Sigh. I heard this on the Holly Harris Sat Night Blues show on WUMB. She was and still is a really great DJ...

Sunnyland Train rendered by John Sinclair

This is a version of Sunnyland Train that John Sinclair recorded with Ted Drozdowski. He took some from the Sunnyland Blues and mixed with the great Robert Palmer. I am more partial to a version he did that was produced by genius Andre Williams (Jailbait). This is a version of Sunnyland Train that John Sinclair recorded with Ted Drozdowski. I am more partial to a version he did that was produced by genius Andre Williams (Jailbait). http://www.amazon.com/Sunnyland-Train/dp/B008PSSFVU/

From the vaults again - Sunny Derby Day

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On a sunny Derby Day Milwaukee the East Side up by the pagoda-looking gas station around 1971 got lost got lost just a few blocks from home. Then, what happened? The Milwaukee River ran like serpin-turpen-tine.... Click to read the rest of the poem.