I didn't remember I engineered this live concert remote broadcast until I listened to Gene Shay's introduction.
It was a Sunday night (I just checked -- September 7, 1975) which means my Jackson Browne radio concert pre-empted part of Gene's Sunday night folk show on our station, WMMR.
Thanks for the intro, old friend!
"Well, it wouldn't be a set from me if it didn't have at least ... one song about death and despair..."-- JB, 2007
Jackson Browne and David Lindley live at Main Point, Bryn Mawr, PA. 9/7/1975. Produced for WMMR by Dennis Wilen.
#TBT TEJAS ROCK!
Here's another musical gem I just found online -- a track from my Doug Sahm WMMR radio concert live from the Bijou Cafe (in Philly) from 1973.
Check out Doug's cover of the Sunny & The Sunliners classic TALK TO ME. With horns!
In the early 1930s, Frida Kahlo joined her (at the time) much more famous husband Diego Rivera in Detroit, Michigan, where he was prepping murals. The Detroit News caught up with the couple and the resulting feature story is in a new exhibit at the Detroit Institute of Art.
“Senora Diego Rivera,” as she’s called in the article, didn’t let Diego hog the limelight, even though she was dressed in a “foolish little ruffled apron.”
“Of course he [Diego] does pretty well for a little boy,” she told reporter Florence Davies, “but it is I who am the big artist.”
Did you hear about the gent that ran amuck in Kent?
Jackson Browne and David Lindley live at the Main Point 9/7/1975 in a WMMR radio concert produced by Dennis Wilen. Jackson introduces a song by a friend -- up-and-coming songwriter Warren Zevon.
Typographical error in "album art" by me!
This corrido by Orange County Celtic-rock homies The Fenians tells the tragic story of the San Patricios, the St. Patrick's Battalion.
The unit of 200 mostly Catholic Irish immigrants deserted the United States Army and fought with the Mexican Army against the U.S.A. in the Mexican–American War.
Scots-British post-punk The Wakes Band
The lyrics to St. Patrick's Battalion:
My name is John Riley I'll have your ear only a while I left my dear home in Ireland It was death, starvation or exile And when I got to America It was my duty to go Enter the Army and slog across Texas To join in the war against Mexico It was there in the pueblos and hillsides That I saw the mistake I had made Part of a conquering army With the morals of a bayonet blade So in the midst of these poor, dying Catholics Screaming children, the burning stench of it all Myself and two hundred Irishmen Decided to rise to the call From Dublin City to San Diego We witnessed freedom denied So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion And we fought on the Mexican side We marched 'neath the green flag of Saint Patrick Emblazoned with "Erin Go Bragh" Bright with the harp and the shamrock And "Libertad para Mexicana" Just fifty years after Wolftone Five thousand miles away The Yanks called us a Legion of Strangers And they can talk as they may From Dublin City to San Diego We witnessed freedom denied So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion And we fought on the Mexican side We fought them in Matamoros While their volunteers were raping the nuns In Monterey and Cerro Gordo We fought on as Ireland's sons We were the red-headed fighters for freedom Amidst these brown-skinned women and men Side by side we fought against tyranny And I daresay we'd do it again From Dublin City to San Diego We witnessed freedom denied So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion And we fought on the Mexican side We fought them in five major battles Churobusco was the last Overwhelmed by the cannons from Boston We fell after each mortar blast Most of us died on that hillside In the service of the Mexican state So far from our occupied homeland We were heroes and victims of fate From Dublin City to San Diego We witnessed freedom denied So we formed the Saint Patrick Battalion And we fought on the Mexican side
And check out this narrative version by Irish legends The Chieftains, with spoken lyrics and Spanish subtitles:
And here are the drums and pipers of today's Mexican St. Patrick's Battalion:
HAVE U SEEN HER? A sign waving robot with a missing arm has found employment in LA's Marina Del Rey neighborhood. "Just because my career as a sex doll is over due to my disability doesn't mean I can't work," she told reporters Saturday.
