Covers: All Along the Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix’s 1968 cover of Bob Dylan’s 1967 All Along the Watchtower is one of the most famous and one of the best music covers.
Music from typing class
I took typing in junior high school. I think it was in 8th grade. I definitely remember typing to “Alley Cat” and will post other songs if I think of them. It’s been a while!
There was this song about typing but I don’t think we used it in the class.
Covers: I’ve Been Everywhere
“I’ve Been Everywhere” is actually an Australian song from 1959 made popular in the US by Hank Snow in 1962. It’s been in several commercials.
My uncle’s last drive
Old folks hate to give up driving. My uncle had a caretaker living with him. She didn’t speak much English. Her description of the last time he drove was “Two cars. One tree. No good.” Fortunately, nobody was hurt.
Rubber
Update on gerrymandering in Pennsylvania
Banjos were created by Black Americans
From the description of the video below:
“The banjo’s sound is synonymous with country, folk, and bluegrass—music as “white” as it gets. For many, it’s the quintessential American instrument. Its origin, though, lies in Africa, in various instruments featuring skin drum heads and gourd bodies. Slaves fashioned them into the modern version in the colonial Caribbean, from where it traveled, via 19th-century minstrel shows, into the very heart of American popular culture. Duke University historian Laurent Dubois, one of the world’s foremost experts on the Caribbean, traces the banjo’s extraordinary trajectory and the part it has played in the very concept of America.”
The Baltimore Museum of Industry had an exhibit on banjos in 2014 that featured a concert by Tony Trishka and Dom Flemons which I saw.
From West Africa to Baltimore: New Exhibit Explores The History Of The Banjo
Baltimore “solves” a sidewalk problem
Several nearby trees fell during a storm in June 2021. One of them uprooted the sidewalk on Scott St. near Pratt St. By the time I got there, only a stump was left. The city recently “solved” the problem but did nothing to level the sidewalk. Sad!
Update: It was finally fixed in June 2023 – see last photo
Another tree that fell on Scott St. in June 2021.
Sad! 