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Been playing hooky from the School of Hardknocks lately, transferred to Bob Watt School of Inferior Poetry. There is no best. There is a year. No try. Just do. - Jack Vaughan    Bold Stump Reunion in my imagination was a little journey on music toward the "castle of heaven." - Aug 2022   Kerouac Bardo Poem - I searched the graveyard - May 2022   Al compas del mundo on the March Jim Haas onboard  - All through 2022   At night the dispatches. -War Blues Prose -Apr 2022 This stuff goes back to Shakespeare and Alexander||There may be only 10,000 sidewinder missiles in US arsenal, and replacing them means production lines like JI Case or Hingham BoatWorks set up in WW11.||The Ukrainians have been fighting this war for several years and have developed methods. and they have intangible desire.||Russian capability for cruelty astounds|| They show a city utterly destroyed by artillery… and say the Ukrainians are blowing things ...

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 On the passing of Luther Guitar Junior Johnson Christmas Day 2023 at 83 - I post here some excerpts from liner notes I wrote for his 1984 Rooster Record: “Doing the Sugar Too.”  He was a hard-working and riveting performer with a great sense of Time, Dynamics, Emotion, and Blues.  And a thoughtful individual I recall, as a read a bit of the liner notes.  Cringing too, as it's pretty clear I must have asked him some pretty dumb questions. But he fielded them manfully, and they tell a story. He came up from Mississippi to West Side Chicago, and played extensively with Magic Sam, but most notably with Muddy Waters, playing a role as something of a bandmaster for most of the 1980s, counting off numbers in one of Muddy Waters’ greatest ensembles. Here are some portions of the notes: Luther pursues a sound that represents his feelings. “I take my guitar and go into a sound,” he says. “I pick up an acoustic and think about different arrangements of music.” He sometimes com...

A few years ago I self-published “Sunnyland Blues”. The 1990 book is still available on-line .  We named our home press “Proud Truth Publishing,” after the same-named race horse – [By Garustark/Wake Robin] – Proud Truth - Winner of the 1985 Breeders’ Cup Classic (where he defeated a strong field that included Chief's Crown, Gate Dancer, Turkoman, and Vanlandingham.) Proud Truth Press is now a part of Progressive Gauge LLC. We often find people that seek us out, but have difficulty. To reach us, write to: Vaughan Proud Truth/Progressive Gauge 30 Delle Ave Suite 1 Boston, Mass. 02120 Proud Truth also published “Blues Poetry Manifesto” 1995 and “A Wet Bird Never Flies at Night” 2020. Competition for the Bickersons! HA HA

Excerpt  Dylan Tells Wall St Journal - I first heard most of the songs in my book: on the radio, portable record players, jukeboxes. The songs were simple, easy to understand. They’d come to you directly, let you see into the future. I recently binged: “Coronation Street,” “Father Brown,” and some early “Twilight Zones.” I know they’re old-fashioned, but they make me feel at home. I’m no fan of packaged programs or news shows. I never watch anything foul-smelling or evil. Nothing disgusting, nothing dog ass. When you hear a great song: you get a gut reaction and an emotional one. It follows the logic of the heart and stays in your head long after you’ve heard it. You don’t have to be a great singer to sing it. It’s bell, book and candle. It touches you in secret places, strikes your innermost being. I do love the sound of old vinyl, especially on a tube record player from back in the day. I bought three in an antique store in Oregon about 30 years ago. The tone quality is so powerf...

 Al compas del mundo – programa #58, 12-22-22 Blues and bluesy jazz - USA 01 Sonny Stitt - Blues Ahead 02 Lowell Fulson - Trouble, Trouble 03 Eddie 'Lockjaw' Davis - Untitled Blues 04 Jimmy Rogers - Goin' Away Baby 05 Eddie 'Cleanhead' Vinson - When My Baby Left Me 06 Mercy Dee - Red Light 07 Charlie Ventura - O.H. Blues 08 Buddy Guy - Money (That’s What I Want) 09 Jaki Byard - Shine on Me 10 James Cotton - Somethin' You Got 11 Clark Terry - Swahili 12 Arthur Gunter – Don’t Leave Me Now 13 Dave Bailey Quintet - Comin' Home Baby 14 Magic Sam - All Night Long 15 John Handy - Blues in The Vernacular Just sitting here rockin’, with a heatpad over the lumbar region. Guess I rocked till my back didn’t have no bone. I should be so lucky to avoid true, deep-down blues. Never went (seriously) hungry. Always had a pallet on the floor, or something better. My baby done left me (not) after 46 years together. Can you feel me? We’re talking middle class, Midwestern, Catho...