New songlists for dipshits VI

Installment six, of "New Songlists for Dipshits".

Remember (I've only said this about a thousand times) go to GROOVESHARK.COM or click on my blog post above to get an extensive free music library...no sign in, nothing...use it like wikipedia....but, if you want to download for 99 cents, then you sign in...well worth it.

http://grooveshark.com/#/


1) "Who Needs Tears"...Toni Price from "Midnight Pumpkin" album.........fast beat, with more bluesy folk fusion? (Toni doesn't easily fit into to any musical category)....




2) "Higher Place" Tom Petty solo album "Wildflowers"....this song will pick up your drifting spirits.........and hey, like I said about a thousand times, YOU CAN HEAR THE WHOLE ALBUM FREE at Grooveshark.com by "clicking on the name of the album" and...wait for the "play all" icon to pop up in the upper left....always best to hear an album in it's entirety they way it was numbered....




3) "Do-Re-Me", John Mellencamp, from "Folkways: a vision shared, A tribute to Woody Guthrie and Leadbelly"...<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRZBB73nBb-dLQz3fgdeBrW2pomOhR0TUC8RQ5E0-JRvLbMX8Bq0vOku351YT2X9HqAj5g4TDbezXA13IkCtQVp9wcf5p8YCag7g78AyCq35IqAy8oyCuuxRHo5D1Vnn5bXY_CxOIMTGc/s1600/P4050051.JPG">...nice use of a steel guitar...and you should hear the whole album, too bad only selected cuts are available at Grooveshark....



4)"Everybody Be Yoself", by Chic Street Man, T.V. show "Northern Exposure" album....calypso beat ballad....







5) "Your life is now" by John Mellencamp...nice violins...maybe Mellencamp's best song...I always liked John's voice....lyrics like, "....would you teach your children to tell the truth, would you take the high road if you could choose, do you think you are a victim of a great compromise, because I believe you change your mind, you change your life"...
.......and, later, when he got away from the "John Cougar" packaging, he went a lot farther then the confining "pop rocker" flash in the pan track that "the money boys" tried to burry him with....Listen to his "Cherry Bomb" song, and hear a violin launched midwestern poet capture small town dreams, and summer time girls in barefoot, swigging beer on the hood of a Dodge while listening to top 40 FM radio hits....




6) "Jolie Louise" by Dan Lanois, "Northern Exposure" album (French cajun slow ballad of love, marriage, oui?...
......a nice change of pace, and what will be a "new sounding song" for you...



7) "Start of Something Good" Toni Price's "Midnight Pumpkin" album.....I always saw the genius of Toni in her unique interpretation of lyrics....here's a song that starts out real slow and bluesy........
...then, Toni hangs a long ass bluesy falsetto note like a musical roller coaster hitting the first whoop de do's....and right there, YOU ARE HOOKED ON TONI PRICE....no?





8) Passionate Kisses" by Lucinda Williams.......lyrics like,
"...shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have this, shouldn't I have all this and PASSIONATE KISSES from you"....Lucinda's first big hit, that caught the critics ear, then it was only a matter of a time before "Carwheels on a Gravel Road" came out solidifying Lucinda's reputation as a first class morose songbird telling tales of poor white trash troubles...





9) "Murder, Tonight, in a trailer park" from The "Black Eyed Man" album by COWBOY JUNKIES....
....a song for everyone in law enforcement who has worked weekend nights in the down side of town, where, sometimes you hit a red light and you don't stop....





10)"You Wreck Me Baby" Tom Petty from the "Wildflowers" album...solo album with no heartbreakers?.....
....I think "Wildflowers" is Petty's best album...If you don't own any a Petty, this album is a safe buy....First time I heard this album, I couldn't believe it, "A perfect album"?????





11) "Common Disaster" by Cowboy Junkies "Trinity Sessions" album....classic Cowboy Junkies....
....a very unique whispering female vocals...backed up with real subtle, slow, electric guitars....this is just one of many songs that solidified the Junkies as a break out sound making trio....

Art of the Car: Hood Ornaments...at Moab, Utah's 2011 Spring Hot Rod Show

Moab, Utah had their spring Hot Rod show recently.

Bright colors...unique curves....and badges of infinite delusional power, set off by fantasy fetishes....all used to hook the buyer.

Cars from the 50's-60's...seem to be a lot more interesting in the curve department.

And, Hood Ornaments...are largely dead as a styling fetish?

So....to bring it all back, take a look at what used to be.



This is off the hood of an immaculately restored Packard. This is a cormorant bird.


























This is a quail from Henry Ford, on a Model A.

Hope CHENEY doesn't get drunk and start shooting Texas lawyers again.

The infamous winter SAND HILL CRANE FLY IN of Wilcox, Arizona

In several places, the sand hill cranes gather either to winter...or stop during the spring migration north. If your lucky...you'll find them.


This flock was hanging around Wilcox, Arizona...right smack down south in the desert. Unusual upland wetlands bird...to be doing winters in the desert southwest?. But, oddly enough...this part of Arizona has a lot of standing water?

If you've never seen a muttering flock of Sand Hill Cranes wing over head with outstretched wings measuring seven feet.......you just don't know what America is all about.

This crane is...a majestic bird.

"Madness" and "Art": two kissing cousins?

In Blythe, California....not far from the western border with Arizona...near Quartzite....is a very interesting piece of spray can graffiti art.








I think this artist....could go a long way...towards being well known

"Salvation Mountain" by SAINT LEONARD KNIGHT...(from somewhere in the California desert)

Note: click blogpost title above to get linked to a Youtube video tour of this FOLK ART CREATION by Saint Leonard Knight.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation_Mountain


From wikipedia "Salvation Mountain":



Salvation Mountain is a colorful art installation covering much of a small hill north of Calipatria, California, near Slab City and just several miles from the Salton Sea.


It is made from adobe, straw, and thousands of gallons of paint.


It was created by Leonard Knight to convey the message "God Is Love."



Another of Leonard's expressions "Keep It Simple" refers back to his message of universal love.


Knight refused substantial donations of money and labor from supporters who wished to modify his message of universal love to favor or disfavor particular groups.[citation needed]








Steps cut into the side of the hill (Leonard calls them the "Yellow Brick Road") lead to the summit, which is topped by a cross.



Salvation Mountain also features many large straw bale and adobe walls supported by a matrix of logs enclosing several cave-like spaces.




Knight lives full-time at the site in a small cabin mounted on the rear of a 1930s-vintage Chevrolet two-ton truck.


Like Salvation Mountain, Knight's "Salvation Truck" and a collection of other vehicles and machinery are entirely covered with paint and Biblical quotes.




He estimates that more than 100,000 gallons of paint have gone into the creation of the mountain and that every California-based paint manufacturer has donated paint to the project. Visitors are gifted post cards depicting the mountain and copies of a documentary about Leonard and his mountain.




Over 25 years of labour has truly created a "Mountain out of a mole hill" and left many a visitor inspired by his selfless dedication and passion.




Friendly and accessible, Leonard welcomes visitors to Slab City and Salvation Mountain and gladly accepts donations of both labor and acrylic paint.



"This thing is really catching on!" he often exclaims to visitors.



Once labeled an environmental hazard, the hill was threatened with removal by Imperial County. In recent years, the furor seems to have died down and the project has been likened to an epic work of folk art comparable to the Watts Towers.



Although the project is an unauthorized one on state land, Salvation Mountain was placed under protection in 2002 when Senator Barbara Boxer entered it into the Congressional Record as a national treasure.



Salvation Mountain was featured in the 2007 film Into the Wild, as well as several documentaries including Plagues & Pleasures on the Salton Sea, Desertopia, and Mountain.


It can also be seen on the back cover photographs of the Kyuss albums ...And The Circus Leaves Town and Muchas Gracias: The Best of Kyuss, and on the Switchfoot Album Hello Hurricane.