People who know me or have read this log or don’t know me but have read this blog will doubt my ability to focus on one topic for the next 12 days: the marketing and preparation of my country blues concert or series of three concerts with the MacArthur foundation laureate genius Corey Harris, starting January 28 in Palo Alto, California.
yesterday off the top of my head I listed 24 items and roughly 70 related concepts that were on my mind or I would like to make progress on; that I will move towards them, and not at the river of life will roll over me. I want to shift orientation so that I am moving downstream or with the flow.
so I am using this vehicle WordPress app to articulate this idea of focusing on Corey. In the same notebook, I have just listed 24 ways to market the event (yet between logging onto this page and writing this sentence I digress to make a comment about Don Cherry— maybe it’s within the scope of my work to think about how dan and Jerry made it influenced Corey Harris. Or how the fans of Corey Harris might overlap with the fans of Don Cherry. They both had or have an international perspective. Don for example, South Africa and Corey West Africa. I wonder if Corey has been to South Africa. These are all fair questions. Excuse the digression.
Marlon James is an author who lives in the US, but they were born in Jamaica. His best known Books is a fictional account of the events surrounding the wounding of Bob Marley gangsters or assassins for people that had an amusing definition of gun control.
so I am contrasting or comparing the well-known song in the trope “killing floor” with the title of Marlon’s book.
Internet feature Cory’s version of this famous song:
People know the versions by Howlin’ Wolf or Skip James. there’s also at least a comment by Hubert Sumlin.
people may be skeptical whether this helps my Cory shows and it is distinct from having my attention on Myra Melford or Jim Campilongo: I saw Jim at the symphony last night and we’re marveling at the encore by Goosby:
a blues work called Louisiana lose by I wanna say, Huntington Cole. That is a tangent yet on point
- Corey won the genius grant in 2007 whereas Marlon won the Booker Prize in 2014 .
Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss 