Swamp Music... 

I should be working on grades... Summer School I Semester ended today... the grades are sad... the effort even worse.  Anyway... I'm taking a break from working on those things... and my mind is wandering...

Monday looked like a downer...
Tuesday looked like rain...
A bad altitude...
And I knew I needed a change...

Highway 61... the blues highway... runs right smack dab through the Middle of Shoesville...   Tony Joe White always makes me thing of the swamp... of the bayou country... 

Just outside of Memphis...
Highway 61...
Sleepy little town down by the
Mississippi River

This is one of my more favorite Tony Joe White songs...

'Tunica Motel'

... and another one from Creedence Clearwater Revival...

'Born On The Bayou'

And I can remember the fourth of July,
Runnin' through the backwood, bare.
And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin',
Chasin' down a hoodoo there.
Chasin' down a hoodoo there.

Born On The Bayou

You know... for a bunch of guys from the Bay Area, they pulled that swamp thing off rather well...

Well... I feel a bit mellowed out now... I think I have my grading system in place...

I talked with Liam Larry last night... for someone who just endured what all he had, he sounds great... 

AND...

I would be VERY remiss if I didn't send BIRTHDAY wishes to Jaime over at Red Red Whine...   

  

Hmmmm... I think those candles seem about right!!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, Jaime!!!!!

~shoes~