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If you were in a cover band in the late 60's to early 70's Parchman Farm was most likely on your song list.
Written in 1940 by Bukka White, covered by Mose Allison in 1957 and again in 1964, it's been covered by (safe to say) at least a dozen times by other bands and solo artists.
On a previous blog, 'gonelikethewimd' posted a Mose Allison video that lead me to do (more) research.

The version first played was from John Mayall Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton, released in 1966. Often called the 'Beano' album. That's a subject for another blog.

After Mayall, I switched to the 1970's harder version on Parchman Farm recorded by Cactus.
Both Mayall and Cactus credited Mose Allison for the song. It wasn't until today I found out Bukka was the original composer.

From previous research I knew that Parchman Farm was the Mississippi State Penitentiary. It was hell for anyone sentenced there as stories of slavery and working from sunrise to sunset often in 100 degree heat.
Possibly the history of Parchman Farm could be a future blog of mine.

Feel free to join in in posting some of your favorite Christmas music videos.

No two people are the same. While some want sax every day, others are fine without any. For me... I grew up on sax. It was all around as a kid and sax was pure pleasure. But then, the shine tarnished and sax wasn't giving me the pleasure I desired. To be honest, it was annoying as I grew older. Maybe just too much sax in my life ruined it.

Pawn shops and music stores go hand-in-hand. I remember getting my first Spanish guitar from a hock shop. I must have been 12 or 13 years old. If I recall, it was $20 but my dad only had $17 so the store owner made the deal. In school, I studied music. Formally, my instrument was oboe and right behind me was sax... 3 sizes. Alto, Tenor and Baritone. Only one person could play the Baritone as it was so big, they had to sit it in a holder.
One Saturday, my day and I were perusing pawn stores and found a smaller sax. It's size is Soprano and much smaller than the others, also it didn't have a curve at the bottom like the others. I hadn't seen anything like that in the school symphony or the marching band.
I wanted that sax. So, we put $5 down and would return each week making installments until it was mine. If my memory is correct, my dad had a heart attack and was unable to work. It was a short time later he had a triple bypass open heart surgery and was out of work for several months. We never returned to the pawn shop to finish the deal on the sax.

In other blogs, I've mentioned my musical taste is fickle. I could like something one day and not the next...or if there is a style change. On my 'do not listen' list you can find Country Music. To be specific, American country. I grew up in Miami and 'country music' was totally connected to the people in the area. Islanders, listened to different 'country' music.
On the highway one day, a CB'er asked "Where's the country music station?"
My response was "What country?"

I don't recall hearing any sax in country music. Moot point as I don't listen.

What I do listen to is Smooth Jazz.. but only in small doses as the sax quickly gets annoying. C'mon, aren't there any other instruments suitable to play smooth jazz?
Ian Anderson / Jethro Tull could play flute to rock music, I'm sure somewhere in the world there's a 'kickin' flutist playing smooth jazz.

So.. if you're like me and you don't like sax, I suggest you stay away from smooth jazz.

It's been one of those kinda days today ...music does wonders for the soul sometimes.....Please brighten my day with a little music...always helps What is your favorite song? What would you say is the most annoying song ever? What kinda music gets the workflow goin? When you're down, what do you listen to? Let's fill this blog with good stuff (and not so good stuff )...and what is your connection to the music you prefer?

We all have those songs and music videos that we hate. For instance, this one is annoying, but it's funny.



Feel free to post the ones you hate...