Robert Nighthawk

Born 100 years ago today, November 30th 1909... Robert Nighthawk (born Robert Lee McCullom) was a rambling man famed for pioneering the slide on the electric guitar. Though his heart belonged in the Mississippi Delta, the place which continuously called him home, he often traveled to Chicago, playing on Sunday afternoons at the famed open-air market along Maxwell Street. The haunting tone enamored a trio of players who took the electric slide to new heights and whose own fame surpassed that of Robert's. That trio was Earl Hooker, Elmore James and Muddy Waters. He died in Helena, Arkansas, the town where he was born, in 1967.

Here are two videos, the first "My Sweet Lovin' Woman" for the photos, the second "Sweet Black Angel" for the music, both recorded in 1948. (Edit: video replaced by a different live recording)

The Mystic's Dream (Loreena McKennitt) ♥♫

A clouded dream on an earthly night

Hangs upon the crescent moon

A voiceless song in an ageless light

Sings at the coming dawn

Birds in flight are calling there

Where the heart moves the stones

It's there that my heart is longing for

All for, for the love of you

A painting hangs on an ivy wall

Nestled in the emerald moss

The eyes declare a truce of trust

Then it draws me far away

Where deep in the desert twilight

Sand melts in pools of the sky

When darkness lays her crimson cloak

Your lamps will call, call me home

And so it's there my homage's due

Clutched by the still of the night

And now I feel, feel you move

And every breath, breath is full

So it's there my homage's due

Clutched by the still of the night

Even the distance feels so near

All for, for the love of you.

Loch Lomond (John Mcdermott)

By yon bonnie banks and by yon bonnie braes,
Where the sun shines bright on Loch Lomond
Where me and my true love were ever wont to gae,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o’ Loch Lomond.

CHORUS
O ye’ll tak’ the high road and I’ll tak’ the low road,
And I’ll be in Scotland afore ye.
But me and my true love will never meet again,
On the bonnie, bonnie banks o’ Loch Lomond.

‘Twas there that we parted in yon shady glen,
On the steep, steep side o’ Ben Lomond.
Where in deep purple hue, the hieland hills we view,
And the moon comin’ out in the gloamin’.

The wee birdies sing and the wild flowers spring,
And in sunshine the waters are sleeping:
But the broken heart, it kens nae second spring again,
Tho’ the waefu’ may cease from their greeting.

Underwater Love (Smoke City)

This must be underwater love

The way I feel it slipping all over me

This must be underwater love

The way I feel it

O que que é esse amor, d'água (What's this water love)

Deve sentir muito parecido a esse amor (It must feel a lot like this love)

This is it

Underwater love

It is so deep

So beautifully liquid

Esse amor com paixão, ai (This passionate love, ah)

Esse amor com paixão, ai que coisa (This passionate love, ah what a thing)

After the rain comes sun

After the sun comes rain again

After the rain comes sun

After the sun comes rain again

This must be underwater love

The way I feel it slipping all over me

This must be underwater love

The way I feel it

O que que é esse amor, d'água (What's this water love)

Eu sei que eu não quero mais nada (All I know's that I don't want anything else)

Follow me now

To a place you only dream of

Before I came along

When I first saw you

I was deep in clear blue water

The sun was shining

Calling me to come and see you

I touched your soft skin

And you jumped in with your eyes closed

And a smile upon your face

Você vem, você vai (you come, you go)

Você vem e cai (you come and you fall)

E vem aqui pra cá (and come right here)

Porque eu quero te beijar na sua boca (because I want to kiss you on your mouth)

Que coisa louca (what a crazy thing)

Vem aqui pra cá (come right here)

Porque eu quero te beijar na sua boca (because I want to kiss you on your mouth)

Ai que boca gostosa (ah, what a delicious mouth)

After the rain comes sun

After the sun comes rain again

After the rain comes sun

After the sun comes rain again

Cai cai e tudo tudo cai (Fall, fall and everything falls)

Tudo cai pra lá e pra cá (everything falls over there and over here)

Pra lá e pra cá (over there and over here)

E vamos nadar (and we will swim)

Y vamos nadar e tudo tudo dá (let us swim and everything is possible)

This must be underwater love

The way I feel it slipping all over me

This must be underwater love

The way I feel it

Oh oh

Oh underwater love

This underwater love

This underwater love.

(Video by Hilde Susan.)

A Deeper Calling

Black is the night of the soul 
That knows not its path of redemption.
Blacker still the day untold 
That's lost in dark reflection.
 
Cast off these robes that clothe in doubt, 
On wings unseen, spread forth and fly. 
Cast off the brilliance of the light 
And vanish into orange sky. 
 
Joy invisible imparts
Its tremulous grace upon the world,
Joyous in its own perception, 
The image of the mind unfurled. 
 
I am as felt in silent prayer, 
The resilient one in stillness found. 
I am the air on which you walk, 
An echo shining on the ground. 
 
--okei 

Homecoming Haikus

Venus reclining;

One leg outstretched she beckons me

And I take her side.

 

Somersaulting blind,

I radiate force from within,

And life brings me home.

 

Face down free falling,

The parachute carries me safe,

Clear of the watch-tower.

 

The secret is Love,

Unconditional, everlasting,

One world evermore.

—okei

Caravanserai (Loreena McKennitt)

Hammer To Fall (Queen - Live Aid 1985)

Here we stand or here we fall
History won't care at all
Make the bed light the light
Lady Mercy won't be home tonight yeah

You don't waste no time at all
Don't hear the bell but you answer the call
It comes to you as to us all
We're just waiting
For the hammer to fall

Oh ev'ry night and every day
A little piece of you is falling away
But lift your face the Western Way
Build your muscles as your body decays yeah

Toe your line and play their game yeah
Let the anaesthetic cover it all
Till one day they call your name
You know it's time for the hammer to fall

Rich or poor or famous
For your truth it's all the same (oh no oh no)
Lock your door the rain is pouring
Through your window pane (oh no)
Baby now your struggle's all in vain

For we who grew up tall and proud
In the shadow of the mushroom cloud
Convinced our voices can't be heard
We just wanna scream it louder and louder louder

What the hell we fighting for?
Just surrender and it won't hurt at all
You just got time to say your prayers
While your waiting for the hammer to hammer to fall

It's gonna fall
Hammer..you know..hammer to fall
While you're waiting for the hammer to fall

Give it to me one more time