FUCK ICE

It's been a while since I've posted and I have a half-assed explanation. I've been distracted. I'm not sure how many of you pay attention to the news, but it's hard to miss how fucked up Donald Trump and his administration have made things, not just in the U.S but all over the world. I really want to keep this blog music related, but avoiding mentioning current events is hard when it's a shit show of this magnitude. So, you're going to get hybrid posts until things get closer to normal. It may be a while.

As you've probably guessed, I do not like Donald Trump, I didn't vote for him and I don't respect anything about him. I am the Anti-Trump. He reminds me of the rich pussy in high school that pays the football bruiser to kick the shit out of his perceived enemies. He's tried it on the international stage and was an embarrassment to his country. He's going after his political foes with bogus charges that are more often then not thrown out of court. He's blown Venezuelan boats out of the water under the pretense that they were drug running. The list goes on. And then there's ICE. The thousands of poorly vetted quick hires with fantasies of playing Call Of Duty in real life.known as Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Killing America citizens that any honest person could see did not pose a reasonable threat. This country is ready to implode. And I just happen to be reading Citizen Tom Paine a biographical novel by Howard Fast (library sale, yesterday, $1). If you are not familiar with Thomas Paine, look him up. Read Common Sense. That shit worked.

Thomas Paine

Now that the jazz portion of our show is over, here's some completely unrelated instrumentals by Steve Cropper, Pops Staples, and Albert King playing together. All three were on Stax Records at the time. The cool thing is hearing them trade off licks in the same song and trying to ID who's who. In "Tupelo" there's name checks before solos so you can cheat if you must. If you're into Stax or obsess about guitarists' signature styles it's a fun test.

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Listen:
Steve Cropper, Pops Staples, and Albert King - Big Bird mp3 at Archive.org
Steve Cropper, Pops Staples, and Albert King - Don't Turn Your Heater Down mp3 at Archive.org
Steve Cropper, Pops Staples, and Albert King - Opus De Soul mp3 at Archive.org
Steve Cropper, Pops Staples, and Albert King - Homer's Theme mp3 at Archive.org
Steve Cropper, Pops Staples, and Albert King - Tupelo mp3 at Archive.org