{"id":5276,"date":"2017-09-02T17:26:24","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T17:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/02\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-water-high-wide-dirty-troubled-and-moody\/"},"modified":"2017-09-02T17:26:24","modified_gmt":"2017-09-02T17:26:24","slug":"saturday-night-at-the-oldies-water-high-wide-dirty-troubled-and-moody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/09\/02\/saturday-night-at-the-oldies-water-high-wide-dirty-troubled-and-moody\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday Night at the Oldies: Water High, Wide, Dirty, Troubled, and Moody"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Dispatch from Houston<\/a>, our friend Patrick Kurp of Anecdotal Evidence<\/em> reports: <\/span><\/p>\n

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Power out. Car flooded. Books dry.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So all is well. But I don't reckon Dean Martin will be returning to Houston<\/a> for a spell even if he could, he being dead and all. <\/span><\/p>\n

Not to make light of the suffering of those sorely afflicted. Pray, send benevolent thoughts, fork over some serious money for relief efforts, but don't blog about it. Your charitable contribution, that is.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Patton\"<\/a>Bob Dylan, High Water<\/a>.  This is a late-career Dylan gem from Love and Theft<\/em> (2001). A tribute to Charley Patton.  Demonstrates Dylan's mastery of the arcana of Americana. Our greatest and deepest singer-songwriter. <\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

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My favorite verse:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Well, George Lewis told the Englishman, the Italian and the Jew<\/span>
You can't open up your mind, boys, to every conceivable point of view<\/span>
They got Charles Darwin trapped out there on Highway 5<\/span>
Judge says to the High Sheriff, "I want them dead or alive"<\/span>
Either one, I don't care, high water everywhere.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Nosiree, Bob, you can't open up your mind to every conceivable point of view, especially when it's not dark yet<\/a>, but getting there.<\/span><\/p>\n

Charley Patton, High Water Everywhere<\/a>.  Nice slide show.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Band, Up on Cripple Creek<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n

Jimi Hendrix, May This Be Love<\/a>.  I had forgotten the wonderful guitar solo.<\/span><\/p>\n

Karla Bonoff, The Water is Wide<\/a>.  I listened to a lot of Bonoff in the early '80s.  She does a great job with this traditional song.<\/span><\/p>\n

Bill Monroe and Doc Watson, Banks of the Ohio<\/a>.  Joan Baez's version<\/a> from an obscure 1959 album, Folksingers 'Round Harvard Square<\/em>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Similar theme though not water-related: Doc Watson, Tom Dooley<\/a>.  Doc and family in a BBC clip<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Standells, Dirty Water<\/a>.  Boston and the River Charles. My mecca in the '70s, the Athens of America, the Hub of the Universe, etc.  A great town to be young in.  But when it comes time to own property and pay taxes, then a right-thinking man high tails it for the West.<\/span><\/p>\n

Simon and Garfunkel, Bridge Over Troubled Water<\/a>.  A beautiful song.  <\/span><\/p>\n

Henry Mancini, Moon River<\/a>.  This was Jack Kerouac's favorite song.  Ellis Amburn, Subterranean Kerouac <\/em>(St. Martin's 1998), p. 324:<\/span><\/p>\n

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One night he [Kerouac, during a 1962 visit to Lowell, Mass.] left a bar called Chuck's with Huck Finneral, a reedy, behatted eccentric who carried a business card that read: "Professional killer . . . virgins fixed . . . orgies organized, dinosaurs neutered, contracts & leases broken."  Huck's philosophy of life was: "Better a wise madness than a foolish sanity."  They drove to a friend's house in Merrimack, New Hampshire, and on the way, Jack sang "Moon River," calling it his favorite song.  Composed by Henry Mancini and Johnny Mercer, "Moon River"<\/a> was the theme song <\/a>of the popular Audrey Hepburn movie Breakfast at Tiffany's<\/em>.  Sobbed by a harmonica, later swelling with strings and chorus, the plaintive tune's gentle but epic-like lyrics describe a dreamer and roamer not unlike Kerouac.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Indeed they do.  A restless dreamer, a lonesome traveller, a dharma seeker, a desolation angel passing through this vale of mist, a drifter on the river of samsara hoping one day to cross to the Far Shore.  Here<\/a> is another version of the tune with some beautiful images.<\/span><\/p>\n

Doc Watson, Moody River<\/a>.  A moodier version than the Pat Boone hit <\/a><\/span>which was based on the Chase Webster<\/a> effort.<\/span><\/p>\n

Clever YouTube comment: "It might be a little early in the day for an Am7."  But this here's Saturday night and I'm working on my second wine spodiodi. Chords minor and melancholy go good 'long about now. <\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Dispatch from Houston, our friend Patrick Kurp of Anecdotal Evidence reports:  Power out. Car flooded. Books dry. So all is well. But I don't reckon Dean Martin will be returning to Houston for a spell even if he could, he being dead and all.  Not to make light of the suffering of those sorely … Continue reading “Saturday Night at the Oldies: Water High, Wide, Dirty, Troubled, and Moody”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[196,202,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-americana","category-kerouac-and-friends","category-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5276\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}