Things could go your way.

[madman101]

Here's an uplifting song delivered by the great spirit wind, lantairvlea. I know there must be one or two people out there in my bizarre 600 visitors today who could find this video helpful...

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Do you know how I change my mind?! I go back to sleep...

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[lantairvlea]

Aw, thanks for the mention.

Sister Hazel continues to be one of my all-time favorite bands. Uplifting and generally optimistic with that little bit of bluegrass twang.

[madman101]

Good band. Thanks for introducing me to them. I think people in AZ probably like a little country twang in their music.

[lantairvlea]

You're welcome. I've been listening through all their music I have the last week or two (14 albums, 135 tracks! some are live/acoustic versions). There's only one song of theirs I habitually skip because the tune is obnoxious, but I think it was purposefully written that way, to be obnoxious.

Depends on where in Arizona, the Phoenix-metro area is quite urban now and it isn't much of a wild west anymore.

I do like the sound of banjos and harmonicas, nonparticular reason why as they weren't promunent in the music I was exposed tobas a kid. I probably should poke at more straight-up Bluegrass music.

[madman101]

Wow, that's too muuuuch! It says something that the only bad song is one meant to be bad, lol.

Well, maybe that's sad in a way. All that water brought in so many midwesterners, etc. One day, Phoenix will collapse.

That would be an interesting musical adventure. I guess there is one main guy in bluegrass, who apparently 'invented' the genre, but I forgot his name at the moment. Brain is messed up.

Another thing to consider is jug band and skiffle. They started in the USA, of course. Lonnie Donegan made skiffle popular in the UK, and had a USA hit, "Rock Island Train." (Rock Island is not far from here. Then the Beatles, etc., picked it up from there. (John Lennon began as a banjo player and then played his guitar with a banjo flair). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skiffle

[lantairvlea]

It definitely does say something when the only really "bad" song feels intentionally so!

I'm pretty sure Phoenix is already sinking. There are fissures in some areas and they are growing. My class in Natural and Geologic disasters visited and mapped some of the fissures as one of our projects. One of my clients lost a family acquaintance to one that opened up on her husband's family farm, just swallowed the guy right up, took hours to pull out his body.

I'll check out that link, when I get more of a moment and will probably disappear down a Bluegrass rabbit hole too.