Plastic Alto with Mark Weiss

People who know me or who have read this blog will doubt my ability to focus on one topic for the next 12 days: the marketing of, and preparation for, my country blues concerts with the MacArthur foundation laureate genius Corey Harris, starting January 28 in Palo Alto, California.

Off the top of my wool cap, I listed 24 topics and roughly 70 related items yesterday that I will move towards, and not merely let the river of life roll over me. I want to shift orientation so that I am moving downstream or with the flow of the things I think about or act on.

So I am using this vehicle, the WordPress app, to articulate this focus on Corey. In the same (literal or analog or real, paper) notebook, I have just struck through numbers 2 thru 24, and then listed on the next page 24 ways to market the Corey Harris event.

For instance, this page.

Marlon James is an author who lives in the US, but was born in Jamaica. His best known book is a fictional account of the events surrounding the wounding of Bob Marley gangsters or assassins for people that had an unfortunate notion 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.

The Internet includes Corey’s version of this famous song:

People know the versions by Howlin’ Wolf or Skip James. There’s also at least a commentary on the topic by Hubert Sumlin.

1. Corey won the genius grant in 2007 whereas Marlon won the Booker Prize in 2014 .