Renaissance - Sight & Sound concert (BBC 1977)

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Annie Haslam is so cool. :) British progressive rock of the 1970s is the sonic essence of my wayward youth and the strongest of genres for my personal nostalgic feelings. I remain unashamedly a fan. 
At one Renaissance concert in America, an enthusiastic fan cheered, "Go get 'em, Annie!" Annie had a ( Read more... )

Indian Givers series vol. 4

Jennie Bobb of the Lenni Lenape nation (also known as the Delawares) has now had her picture used for a poster promoting a campaign of resistance. The slogan "Occupy Wall Street" now reads "Take Back Wall Street: Occupied Since 1625." The Lenni Lenape were the indigenous people of New York City.


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Cousin Bridget came to see me as soon as she heard I was with child, in November, my fourth month, as the baby was beginning to stir a little. She fussed over me every moment and tried to prescribe various medicinal herbs for my condition, until she came to realize that my knowledge of herblore far exceeded hers. Then she said, "Oh, Patty! Do, I ( Read more... )

-Alliquippa? (looking over the writer's shoulder) You mean she's a person? I thought that was just a place name near Pittsburgh.

-Yes, she was the most prominent sachem of the Seneca nation in Pennsylvania in the mid-18th century. She lived not at the place named for her, but at the confluence of the Monongahela and the Youghiogheny rivers, the site ( Read more... )

Country Music Wimmin Appreciation Series, vol. 4

The two songs "Long Black Veil" and "Caleb Meyer" are separated by thirty-nine years; they were both written by women, both tell a story with an Appalachian feel, both take place at night, both involve the ghosts of men who died violently, and both were recorded by Joan Baez, which is how I first ( Read more... )

[St. Louis, 1893?]

When Signora Randazzo first came to Laclede Avenue to teach piano, I liked her immediately. Her deep dark eyes and strong aquiline nose so competed for attention that I could never decide which was her dominant feature; it seemed to vary with the lighting and her mood. She always kept her ebony hair swept back into a chignon, ( Read more... )

for Women's History MonthWomen, Transsexualism and Transgender in Traditional Siberian Shamanism ( Read more... )

Got to hand it to Suzi-- she's the earliest pioneer who proved that WOMEN can ROCK. She paved the way for everyone who came after-- Joan Jett, Patti Smith, Heart, Melissa Etheridge, L7 and the rest.

Can the Can

Suzi Quatro was BAD.
She's the sister that you never had.

Rock Hard

I'm just majorly in a '70s mood today...

Your Mama Won't Like ( Read more... )