An American Athenaeum

Saturday, September 30, 2023

Joan Baez and Odetta: Blues Improv

Wednesday, September 27, 2023

Lou Reed - Sally Can't Dance - Paris 1974

Sunday, September 24, 2023

Saturday, September 23, 2023

Thelonious Monk - 'round Midnight

Friday, September 22, 2023

Mr. Twain

"Suppose you were an idiot. And suppose you were a member of Congress. But I repeat myself."
~ Mark Twain, An Autobiography

Thursday, September 21, 2023

Alvin Lee - The Bluest Blues (feat. George Harrison)

Wednesday, September 20, 2023

Paul Simon contemplates faith, death and the existence of God

*Disclaimer

I have taken the term "God's Unruly Friends" from the title of Ahmet T. Karamustafa's eponymous book (subtitled: Dervish Groups in the Islamic Middle Period 1200-1550), Oxford: Oneworld, 2006. Professor Karamustafa, a man of formidable scholarship and consummate taste, has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with this blog. His book has a rather oblique and complicated relevance to my blog insofar as it has helped me to get in touch with my own inner Dervish--but that is neither the fault of the book nor its author.