Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Showing posts with label blues. Show all posts
Showing posts with label blues. Show all posts

Friday, September 16, 2011

A huge happy birthday today



to Riley B. King, better known as B.B. King born on this date in 1925.
Rolling Stone's #3 in their list of 100 greatest guitar players of all time,
and royalty when it comes to the Blues!
Happy Birthday!
 


Saturday, May 01, 2010

Today



is the anniversary of the birth, in 1930, of

Marion Walter Jacobs (Little Walter),

a wonderful blues musician who died far too early due to violence. His blues harmonica playing was fantastic...