Leonard Cohen's Elegy For Janis Joplin - Chelsea Hotel #1

Ah ..Leonard!  ..... Janice !...... we did have a time didn't we....

MY FIRST TIME : here ia a band that I heard at Jeff Weiss celebration for Richard Martinez at La MaMA ..here is a video Anna/Kate "NOLA (Has My Heart)" - NPR Tiny Desk Contest

Last night was the first time I heard these two voices melt together. It was at Jeff Weiss's celebration for his partner of 57 years. as he complete's his Bardo journey  La MaMA's Nicky Paraiso asked three younger artists to perform to show Jeff and all of us elders what we had seeded and how Dan Fishback has been maturing the new crop. I had neve heard Anna/Kate before although they have traveled the world .. was sooooo grateful to have heard them in this La MaAMA Jeff Weiss gathering. I don't know about you, but I never forget my first time with anyone who gifts me pleasure ... thank you, Anna/Kate .. I look forward to seeing them with their full band







and here is a recent video of the whole band used to raise funds fo their first album

Anna/Kate "NOLA (Has My Heart)" - NPR Tiny Desk Contest

Last night was the first time I heard these two voices melt together. It was at Jeff Weiss's celebration for his partner of 57 years.  La MaMA's Nicky Paraiso asked three younger artists to perform to show Jeff and all of us elders what we had seeded and how Dan Fishback has been maturing the new crop. I had neve heard Anna/Kate before although they have traveled the world .. was sooooo grateful to have heard them in this La MaAMA Jeff Weiss gathering. I don't know about you, but I never forget my first time with anyone who gifts me pleasure ... thank you, Anna/Kate .. I look forward to seeing them with their full band

Is this the best Jazz singer you never heard?????Patty Waters - Plays (Full Unreleased Album, 1970)

Years ago when I lived with Richard Dworkin on the corner of Masonic and the Panhandle in San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury.  There was a woman living in a garage near us. Richard became friends with her ... turns out her name was Patti Waters ..the legendary singer who was on ESP records and had recorded the definitive version of "Black was the color of my true loves Hair." and then disappeared ... we did not know then. but learned later that none of the amazing artists on ESPever got paid .... anyway she was a troubled but gifted woman who we became friends ... and look what I found on youtube. AN UNRELEASED PATTI WATERS album...oh my ..e prepared to be surprised!

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The "Stunning Fragility"

Where fo you stand on Freedom of Speech? The "Stunning Fragility" & Vindictive Political Correctness of Todays .

Where fo you stand on Freedom of Speech? The "Stunning Fragility" & Vindictive Political Correctness of Todays .The "Stunning Fragility" & Vindictive Political Correctness of Today's ...

Where fo you stand on Freedom of Speech? The "Stunning Fragility" & Vindictive Political Correctness of Todays ...

ALERT Political Correctness on Campus  Personally: I have never picketed a show or event or book etc that I have not seen or read first. I believe in the right to protest, but I draw the line and stopping a person from speaking,  As someone who has personally been removed from speaking because a small group protested despite never engaging me personally nor confirming the facts they read on the internet or the gossip spread person to person. I know very well how this feels and strongly object to it.  Here two smart people discuss the rise on college campuses of politically correct speech and the shutting down of the so-called marketplace of ideas.   This conversation is a good jumping off place to talk about this subject. Please watch and share