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.
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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...
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...
ReplyDeleteI Love Dancing Barefoot - it plays with all the archytypes used to discredit women over the ages.
ReplyDeleteI am not familiar with Judy Henske Snoopy. I will see if I can find High Flying Bird and give it a listen.
ReplyDeleteDancing 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!