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Listen to this gal y’all. She cuts across the categories.

This is Want to Be On Your Mind

Here is Ken Tucker’s take on her album.

Here’s a Rolling Stone Session with a mini-interview and some of her song You Can’t Be Told.

Finally, here she is doing Somebody to Love.

Happy Monday, y’all!

“Grace is the celebration of life, relentlessly hounding all the non-celebrants in the world. It is a floating, cosmic bash shouting its way through the streets of the universe, flinging the sweetness of its cassations to every window, pounding at every door in a hilarity beyond all liking and happening, until the prodigals come out at last and dance, and the elder brothers finally take their fingers out of their ears.”

Robert Farrar Capon in Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, & the Outrage of Grace

Yes. This is how you get back at the pitcher who nearly took your head off.

Pure Yadier. I’d have loved to have been at Busch for that!

Happy Saturday, y’all!

Some of y’all may already know about Sister Rosetta Tharpe. I didn’t, until I kind of stumbled across her a few weeks ago. Later, I was telling some of our friends about her when one of the guys there said that he had recently caught a episode of American Masters that was all about her.

How great is that?

She’s the Godmother of Rock and Roll, y’all. Every music lover should know about her.

She influenced Jerry Lee Lewis, Elvis, and Chuck Berry…

Watch this — and be sure to listen to her playing starting at the 1:34 mark.

Awesome!

Cornbread. I’ve made a skillet or two (thousand?) of those in my life.

But I had never found the one.

That might have changed, now, with this recipe. It’s from Pioneer Woman. The interesting thing is that it uses the same ingredients in the same increments as my normal recipe, but the method is decidedly different.

We loved it. There weren’t any crumbs left — that pretty much says it all.

Happy Friday!

This song has been covered by lots of impressive folks — but I think that I like this version the best.
It is by The Duhks.

Such a pretty song. Such a sad song.

It has been stuck in my head lately.

Maybe you’ll like it, too.

And, Happy Thursday!

Usually, I prefer a plain, full fat, Greek yogurt. It’s just so versatile, you know. Lately, we’ve been eating it with a breakfast apple crisp that I’ve been making with all of the apples we’ve recently been given. Also, we love to have it with granola. Frankly, I wish that it came in bigger containers.

So, eating yogurt with any sugar or flavored isn’t something I usually do. But, I had a coupon, and I was on my own for lunch, and I wanted to sit down and finish my book instead of cooking. So, I triedthis yogurt, and found myself eating it slowly, with my eyes closed. Yes. It’s that good.

It was wonderful, y’all. Just the right amount of sweetness with lots of coconut chunks. So dreamy…now all I need is some rum and a beach and I’d be all set.

I don’t know why I like this song, y’all, because it definitely doesn’t fit into my usual song liking parameters. Maybe it is because the song is bluesy, and I hear a lot more of that down here in Mississippi. In fact, the college radio station I listen to frequently has “blues breaks” when they typically play a couple of older blues songs. This is a new song — though it really sounds like something from the eighties with a Bonnie Raitt-ish gal singing. I played it for Jon and Nathan the other day and was lambasted for my choice.

Those busters. Humpf! Perhaps I like it because it’s about a girl and her made up mind. Yep. I like this song and I’ve made up my mind that I don’t have to explain.

I like to sing along.

This is Made Up Mind by the Tedeschi Trucks Band.

And, no, I do not mean this wood explosionesque kitchen that Count Dooku and Dino-Guido are hanging out in. Nope. That would be the kitchen in my rental.

The kitchen that I’m talking about is this one.

It is all kinds of awesome because they took a wood explosionesque kitchen like mine and made it gorgeous for less than $2000.

This one is definitely going in the fixer-upper file, for sure!

Oh, and happy Labor Day, y’all!

“But all the while, there was one thing we most needed even from the start, and certainly will need from here on out into the New Jerusalem: the ability to take our freedom seriously and act on it, to live not in fear of mistakes but in the knowledge that no mistake can hold a candle to the love that draws us home. My repentance, accordingly, is not so much for my failings but for the two-bit attitude toward them by which I made them more sovereign than grace. Grace – the imperative to hear the music, not just listen for errors – makes all infirmities occasions of glory.”

From Between Noon and Three: Romance, Law, & the Outrage of Grace