Episode 3

A few thoughts on my favorite parts of the folkway episode 3

I loved listening to all of the different types of music that folkway produced. for example, the difference between Goodnight Irene by Leadbelly and the Motown Rag to Pete Seeger and the childrens songs in spanish.
I loved the poem by Nikki Geovani (sp?)

"The women gather because it is not unusual to seek comfort in our hours of stress
a man must be buried. it is not unusual that old bury the young, though it is an abomination.
it is not strange that the unwise and the ungentle carry the banner of humaneness though it is a castration of the spirit.
it no longer shadows the intellect that those who make war call themselves diplomats
we are no longer surprised that the unfaithful pray loudest every sunday in every church..."
I would put more but its really hard to write what she's saying because I had to pause after every line and its hard to move backwards very precisely. I could probably write a whole blog just on that poem and what I thought of it...I'll just say the line about the unfaithful praying the loudest is often so true.

I loved the song What Side are You On? by the almanac singers. I grew up listening to Pete Seeger as a kid and still do sometimes, so I recognized his voice. the song sort of reminded me of Bob Dylan's "you've gotta serve somebody"

I also liked the Ella Jenkins song lyric "you can travel in a song" which is so true. songs are often a way for me to sort of escape from reality and travel in my mind to somewhere else.

I didn't know Bob Dylan went under the name Blind Boy Grunt. the name fits his voice well!