Songs like this one cone but only once in a very long time,so I made op my own little story. I wish it were true, but it isn't+.; One summer night in 1878 along the Mississippi River, a young, slightly crippled man who didn't have much money was sweeping off the deck of a gambling riverboat. He sees this beautiful woman strolling alongside this fat, bossy, meanest man he's seen. Both of them have fancy clothesand the man has just won a blackjack tournament in the boat's casino. He's bragging to everyone on dech what a great hand he had!
Meanwhile the worker notices the sad expression on the pretty lady's face. Now the poor man realizes he could make the woman happy just by treating her like a l;ady. Unlike that fat man, with all that money, who just wants her too keep her mouth shut and act the way he wants her to act. Whenever the woman tries to say something the fat man orders her to shutup or he'll belt her one. The poor man knows all of this becausehe has seen it a million times over, but it isn't his place to say or do anything about it. So he just tips his hat, gives the woman a winkk of sympathy, continues sweeping and says nothing. The fat man and the younglady go into the cabin and the worker never sees them agian. He feels just like a lone steam boat drifting down the great Mississippi River.
Pat Simmons's quote on Black Water
I was into folk blues, and had that riff (sings the fingerpicked melody) – kind of a lazy delta blues thing – to start. Soon after, I was in the studio, recording a part, and while they worked on something in the booth, I start playing that riff, just tweaking around. Our producer, Ted Templeman, said, “What is that? There’s something about that riff that’s really cool.” So I continued to play with it. Shortly after, we were playing some shows in New Orleans when the song started to come to me. I think it was all the wonderful experiences – the food, walking along the Mississippi, the French Quarter, Dixieland music in the clubs. For instance, I wrote the second verse while riding a streetcar up St. Charles Street to the Garden district to do my laundry. It was raining – one of those summer showers where it’s sunny. It was a magical moment for me. So I jotted down the lyrics. “If it rains I don’t care, don’t make no difference to me, just take that streetcar that’s going uptown.”
Back in the summer I wrote an entry in here about my Lighthouse phone contact with Bill,N8ET , so now I had to top that with a five lighthouse PSK contact in Wisconsin! I was orginally going to wait until I got the card like my other contacts but I think at this stage of the game you can take my word for it. This contact was with a husband and wife team also known as "Team Cheese"--WI9TC (I love the callsign). Like the contact with Bill, they were in the line of sight of five lighthouses located on the Wisconsin shores of Lake Michigan. As soon as I saw them on the BeaconBot (the e-mail reflector used to notify people of lighthouse activations-) I knew I had to take my best shot. There were tons of stations dying to get a contact. Well after some monitoring of the waterfall and waiting for a break in the QSO's, I dropped my call. Unfortunately I was getting overpowered a lot so I actually wound up waiting for quite awhile. Although I have to admit it was also fun just ...
For a few months there has buzz around Cape May NJ that Bob Dylan was coming to America's Oldest Seaside Resort. No he wasn't playing a concert at Convention Hall. For most of this weeks parts of 2024 Cape May,NJ was transformed into 1965 Newport, RI. A Complete Unknown is a new film about Dylan's conversion from acoustic to electric guitar starring Timothee Chalamet as Bob Dylan is in production and the location scouting team decided that Cape May today looked like Newport back in '65. Bob Dylan debuted his hit song Like a Rolling Stone at t he Newport Folk Festival. They even transformed Perry Street into Belevedere Avenue. Shops along the Washington Mall were temporarily renamed to match shops up in Newport. The Victorian Motel was baptized then Viking Motel for the film Days prior I started seeing filming equipment being transported into town. Like most o f the town I was hopi...
WELL here we are folks one quarter of the way into this century!! I have been thinking about writing this email since the beginning of December but of course I am a month late. I am happy to report the Mattes Family is healthy! Chirs, Natalie, Zander and Quinn are busy as ever! Zander is now a sophomore and studying for his written test to get his driving permit! I half to double check that fact because it's so hard to believe. Quinn is doing well in eighth grade and is on a travelling soccer team which plays in tournaments all over the country. She has one coming up in Florida in February that dad and I are thinking about going down for a few days to watch her. They BOTH are getting as tall as their uncle Jay which is very hard for him to accept! The family adopted three kittens which as a dog person even I admit they are cute!! We spent Christmas with them and got to see the new Bob Dylan movie, partly filmed right here in Cape May. Unfortunately, I didn't get ...
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