Showing posts with label guitar. Show all posts
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Wednesday, April 15, 2015

It is nice to step back for a moment to see where You were ..and going to.


Man on the String

By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney©03



"I am the man on the string"…

And he sings a celebration that swept the world.
Flowing with a haunting refrain…
(Will you continue to sing?)
Long after the man on the string…
Stopped long enough…
Only to begin still another celebration unto me.


This man on a string continues to sing.
Oh so doing his thing in the belly of the Neutral Ground.
A sound that vibrated around the world.
And he brings no steel to the space on Daneel (Street)
He is just bringing another celebration song to thee.
All rights reserved JHM 7-13-03©

Jenn Brigham, artist

His Sound

By Jacquelyn Hughes Mooney ©03





His sound was like John Denver with cayenne pepper…

Thrown in for good measure.
And his sound wrapped around my left ear.
Engaging his heart’s life to my soul.
His sound is like John Denver with cayenne thrown in for good measure.
(Fly away….Fly away…. Flay a-waaaay!)


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Diane "Mimi" Baquet, artist

Saturday, June 6, 2009

Don't need No Words...


Blind Willie Johnson 1897-1945


the raw, powerful "Dark Was The Night, Cold Was the Ground", where he sings in wordless hum and moans about the crucifixion of Jesus. This song was a "moaning" piece related to the Bentonia school of blues practiced by such "eerie voiced" artists as Skip James and Robert Johnson.


Dark Was The Night, Cold Was the Ground was included on the Voyager Golden Record, sent into space with the Voyager spacecraft in 1977; this piece was used in the widely seen science show Cosmos: A Personal Voyage by Carl Sagan in 1980.



From 1927: