The title of this blog comes from a Gaelic expression -"putting on the poor mouth"-which means to exaggerate the direness of one's situation in order to gain time or favour from creditors.
30 December 2006
Patti Smith
Patti Smith is 60 today. This of course gives me an excuse to post a number of videos of one of my favourite musicians... enjoy!
Interesting - quite a few major women singers were born in that period. My personal hang up is with Judy Henske - the least socially-minded of all. Go figure. But when she goes into the High Flying Bird...
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Interesting - quite a few major women singers were born in that period. My personal hang up is with Judy Henske - the least socially-minded of all. Go figure. But when she goes into the High Flying Bird...
I Love Dancing Barefoot - it plays with all the archytypes used to discredit women over the ages.
I am not familiar with Judy Henske Snoopy. I will see if I can find High Flying Bird and give it a listen.
Dancing Barefooot is probably my favourite Patti Smith song. I've always loved it, Pisces.
Now there's a thought Mullet. Can you imagine the streets of Paisley, Romofrd or wherever full of poets rather than (piss) artists!
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