How did our ancestors know which plants were poisonous? Before science, the only way to determine this was to eat the plant. How did they pick the unlucky person who had to try a plant nobody had seen before?
Covid death statistics
from the article linked to above:
Only about 60 percent of Republican adults are vaccinated, compared with about 75 percent of independents and more than 90 percent of Democrats, according to Kaiser. And Republicans are both disproportionately white and older. Together, these facts help explain why the white death rate has recently been higher than the Asian, Black or Latino rate.
Covers: The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)
“The 59th Street Bridge Song” (1966) by Simon and Garfunkel is better known as “Feelin’ Groovy”. Harpers Bizarre had a hit with it in 1967. The Liberace cover is incredibly terrible.
Two strange covers of Jimi Hendrix songs
I don’t have anything to add to these except note that I love Brave Combo.
Improving ventilation reduces the spread of COVID-19
Covers: The Coo Coo Bird/The Cuckoo
The 1929 recording of “The Coo Coo Bird” also known as “The Cuckoo” by Clarence Ashley is on The Anthology of American Folk Music.
Murder rates are highest in some red states
Cities are actually safer. Republicans attack cities to distract from their own problems.
CEO pay is outrageous
June is Accordion Awareness Month
June is Accordion Awareness Month. My parents’ generation loved Myron Floren who was on the Lawrence Welk show. Brave Combo plays rock polkas.
The great Clifton Chenier popularized Zydeco. Stanley Dural, better known as Buckwheat Zydeco, played with Chenier before he founded his own band. I saw Buckwheat in concert several times – he was great. He played a huge accordion. Amade Ardoin and others used the accordion in Creole music.
Garth Hudson of The Band played accordion on their records and Bob Dylan’s “On a Night Like This”.
Flaco Jimenez, the Tex Mex accordionist has also played on records by Ry Cooder and Dwight Yoakam. Europeans from Germany, Poland and the Czech Republic brought the accordion to Texas and Mexico. Los Lobos from Los Angeles also uses the accordion (played by David Hidalgo).
Those Darn Accordions emphasize humor.
Sad! 