The heat-hammer pounds the blues

It's Tew's day …

Just a week ago, it seems, a new America began.

When President Joe Biden announced just a week ago that he would not accept the Democratic nomination for president, he did not pass the torch to Vice President Kamala Harris. He passed it to us. It is up to us to decide whether we want a country based on fear or on facts, on reaction or on reality, on hatred or on hope. It is up to us whether it will be fascism or democracy that, in the end, moves swiftly, and up to us whether we will choose to follow in the footsteps of those Americans who came before us in our noblest moments, and launch a brand new era in American history. – Heather Cox Richardson, Letters from an American.

Speaking of moments and eras: Blues guitarist Buddy Guy turns 88 today. Still on tour, he was born in 1936 Lettsworth, Louisiana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buddy_Guy

Buddy Guy 2012 Kennedy Center Honors with Morgan Freeman, Jimmie Vaughan, Tracy Chapman, Jeff Beck, Beth Hart and Bonnie Raitt. “I'd rather be blind” with Beth Hart will bring tears if you have ears.

“Funny thing about the blues. The more you sing 'em, the more they go away.” – Buddy Guy