Today would be a good day to get your blues on. If you don’t know about the Blind Lemon you betta get to readin’. Music wouldn’t really be what we know it as today if it weren’t for good hard working musicians like Blind Lemon. His music is bad ass and apparently only one picture of him existed.
He Rose From The Dead
An all time favorite video from way back. Teddy bears, stop motion stuff and a cute as hell björk. Stuck in my head all throughout my morning shower, may it get stuck in yours for the day.
Blind Lemon Jefferson is pretty much the first black dude to get paid for making awesome music in the 20’s. He was indeed blind and belted out the blues like nothing anybody had heard at the time. Blind Lemon did pretty good for himself, surely not as good as his record label but somethings never change. Another famous Blind Lemon tune is Black Snake Moan but I chose this song because I would like my loved ones to see that my grave is kept clean. Don’t forget about me when I die dammit! And please don’t let the weeds grow all crazy around it.
I love the way he just has a string holding his guitar up rather than an actual strap. The music is raw, the sounds of bad lighting and thin coats of dirt and grime on a chair in a dingy barn with the door slightly ajar. I can see myself walking up to it and seeing a little bit of the bad lighting escaping the door and with it the sound of the Blind Lemon blues and as I start to take it all in some grown person says “bow you’s butta git beck inside nah!”
Woke up with this Here in Frisco song playing in my dream (which I don’t remember) something about those sounds that open the song up. It’s a good rain song, a good drinking song as well as a song of sadness and lament. It’s a cool song as are most Merle Haggard tunes providing a safe haven for your ails and guarding them with the urge to drink up, suck it up and deal with it like a man (or particularly manly female who refuses to share what she’s actually thinking because it’s easier to write a song.) The type that is too poor to buy an apple but still refuses welfare checks because he is a working man.
It’s kind of funny that it’s just a still photo of merle the whole time but it was the first thing I found.
A friend sent me this link and it pretty much assured me I would have an awesome day today. This is so bad it reminds me of my old rappin’ days. Back when I lived at my parent’s house, had no job and had zero shame.
I started making this in 2007 with all intentions of being on adult swim, but I only got as far as the silent cruddy looking little animation you see here.