Change happened while we weren’t paying attention, and it started in the seventies.

The fifties were a somnambulant decade. Eisenhower was president, boomers’ parents, damaged by the Depression and World War II, put their heads down and built their families, averse to risk all the while, and the issues of minorities were ignored, whether they be of African-Americans, gays or…

But then came the sixties.

They started with President Kennedy. Who was all about hope. The future. Not the bogus, empty words of Obama, people truly felt like we were on the cusp of change. And as the boomers crested into adolescence, everything was up for grabs, everything hidden in the fifties came home to roost. Martin Luther King, Stonewall…the eruptions were frequent. Furthermore the younger generation detached from their parents, started questioning for themselves, and untethered they started testing limits. Ergo the advances in the arts and eventually the adoption of drugs and ultimately the sexual revolution, as a result of the birth control pill. Anything was possible, there was turmoil, but a sense of optimism, but that ended in the seventies. Boomers decried the election of Nixon, but after Kent State the generation started licking its wounds, retreating inward and also to the hills. Sure, Nixon resigned, but that was really a carryover from the sixties. Boomers were now out of school, they were looking to advance their careers. The hippie scene had died. Altamont killed the love one another culture. And when Carter gained power…there was massive inflation, dashing their hopes and dreams.

And then along came Reagan. Never underestimate his history in Hollywood. That appealed to a public that wanted to believe in myths. Reagan promised to right the ship, to make the economics work, and when he lowered taxes the boomers were ecstatic, they finally had money which they could use to grow their families and their nest eggs. They were sick of fighting the system, they’d had enough of that in the sixties.

But the eighties ushered in new forms of communication. In the sixties there were three TV networks, everybody knew the headlines. In the eighties we got CNN. We also got MTV, which reversed the broadening of artistic culture, along with blockbuster movies. Now it was about a monoculture, you wanted to belong, you needed to belong, whereas in the sixties you let your freak flag fly. They called it “The Big Eighties” on MTV, and still on radio, there was no equivalent moniker for the seventies.

And when Clinton got elected in the nineties, there was a sense of self-satisfaction, that the boomers were finally in charge. But having lost the Arkansas governorship once, Clinton was all about compromise, and when he eviscerated the welfare laws to keep the right happy, immediately a whole swath of people were disenfranchised. But unlike in the sixties, the middle class whites did not care, they were reaping the rewards of the Reagan years, and the economy was booming. It was suddenly a world economy and Clinton ushered in global agreements that had production shifting to the cheapest location and everything was groovy…only it wasn’t.

First and foremost you had Newt Gingrich and his minions. The right was licking its wounds. It was losing culturally, and despite Reagan it did not feel in control of the narrative. There was abortion, gays came out of the closet, ergo the culture wars…along with a desire to shrink the federal government, the lowering of taxes was religion, supply side economics were religion, didn’t matter whether it worked or not, the point was everybody wants lower taxes, at least in theory, and the left was asleep and the right hammered its message and…the rich got richer and the poor fell further behind.

Then came the tech revolution. For fully fifteen years that was all anybody could talk about, from the mid-nineties until the turn of the decade from the aughts to the teens in the twenty first century. Once again, it was about possibilities, and boomers were in charge, and we became enamored of our gadgets and the ability to communicate and… Disruption was rampant, but it seemed to affect companies more than consumers, there was no underlying complaint from the public about industries tanking. So now corporations and the public were on different sides. And not only were boomer techies becoming billionaires, but CEOs were operating behind the scenes to obfuscate the truth, lower taxes and get rich. And it took years for the public to catch up with all this.

Yes, corporations were hiding in plain sight, with their power, but we believed in corporations more than musicians, it was corporations that were delivering this exquisite future, musicians were just trying to catch up.

Meanwhile, the public was ignorant as to the rise of private equity, begun back in 1982 by William Simon, the former Secretary of the Treasury, whose investment vehicle Wesray Capital made double digit millions seemingly overnight via its purchase and sale of Gibson Greetings. Outsiders ignored this, they were busy reveling in the Big Eighties culture and economic run-up. Meanwhile, Wall Street noticed. And investments/takeovers became rampant. Sure, Michael Milken ended up going to jail, but no one else did. As a matter of fact, this was the seed of cultural resentment that came full circle with the government rescue of banks but not the public in the wake of the 2008 meltdown….the people had to pay, but not the bankers, not the corporations.

So, Bush ends up president. But a sour taste is left in the mouths of Gore supporters. Bush’s team fought hard, the Supreme Court gave him the office and Gore was the gentleman and conceded.

But once Bush and the Republicans had power they further lowered taxes and income inequality continued to grow. That is the story from the eighties on, the growth of income inequality.

So, Obama gets elected in 2008 and now the aged boomers believe everything is hunky-dory, all the sins of the past will be instantly wiped away. No. First and foremost, Obama was so worried about appearing the angry black man that he wouldn’t stand up to the right, and the right had made so many inroads into the infrastructure that it could not be excised.

This was not 1992 and Clinton. Clinton ushered in economic supergrowth and caved to the right to maintain power. This giveaway ended up hamstringing Obama. And when 2016 came around, Trump was elected.

So let’s go back to the undercurrent. The top line is about boomers raking in all this money, paying few taxes and being envious of the billionaires and the rich who paid low rates on capital gains, even those who ran hedge funds, via the carried interest rule. The boomers on the left, the Democrats, were self-satisfied and if anything they wanted more, they didn’t want to give anything up. Meanwhile, those on the right were raking in the dough and with no new taxes…incomes went up and up and up.

Then there was everybody else. Those who worked on the line, in manufacturing. Well, manufacturing went overseas as a result of globalization. And despite all the talk of retraining, there were no good-paying jobs available for the newly unemployed. So, life got harder and harder for those working for a wage. The minimum wage didn’t keep up with inflation and America turned into a lottery system, via the actual lottery and entertainment and tech. If you just pulled yourself up by your bootstraps, you could make it, you could succeed. Only you couldn’t, statistics said otherwise, but it’s hard to fight a dream with statistics.

In the fifties and sixties if you were rich you inherited the money. But in the twenty first century if you were rich you’d worked really damn hard to make it. Maybe went to umpteen years of school. You had contempt for those who didn’t apply themselves, especially for those on dope. And there was no safety net for those left behind, thanks Bill Clinton, and they started to resent the snooty left wing rich and still do.

As for the rich right… It focused on bogus issues like “freedom” and cultural issues like abortion and gay marriage to align these sudden free agents. The blue collar defected from the left. And when Trump said he loved his uneducated, he meant it!

But the left believed facts would rule, that people voting against their own interests would wake up, see the benefit of the ACA. But suddenly facts were fungible, and everybody relied on a different source as a result of the internet and…everybody wanted to pay less taxes, the right owned the mantra and convinced America of it.

The lefties were asleep. They were so busy making money hand over fist that they couldn’t see the changes in the landscape. Of course the poor should align with them, but what had the Democrats actually done for the poor lately? As for the leadership of the left, it was out of touch, not realizing that Hillary Clinton was a flawed candidate who was promising the status quo when that was anathema to most people, it didn’t work for most people, what did James Carville famously say? “It’s the economy, stupid!” But the left, the elite, equated the economy with the stock market, and that didn’t help the so-called “little people” whatsoever.

The right played the long game, with the Federalist Society. The left was asleep, believing its heart was in the right place so what could go wrong?

And everybody agreed the poor had flat screens and smartphones so why should they complain?

And the right forges off in a new direction. Trump gains the nomination and the RNC lines up behind him, as do the representatives and senators and…the left just wants a return to what once was. Yes, all those boomers who cashed in over the past decades want a return to the days where they didn’t have to worry about the government and they could continue in their rich lifestyles. Meanwhile, not only was the blue collar left behind by the Democrats, BUT THEIR OWN PROGENY! But unlike the children of the right, the children of the left couldn’t get off the couch, they were depressed. The right kept hammering an inane optimism as lifestyles decreased, blaming it on bogeymen like immigrants, and the left abandoned its own children, there was no message. The right owned the messaging war, the left ran on feelings. And so many of the elite left could afford college for their kids, they didn’t care about those who could not.

Yes, we got here via Democratic boomers. Who were so busy raking it in that they took their eye of the ball, to the point that their constituency is shrinking so much that they have trouble winning. They’re disorganized and not planning for the future as they myopically live their elite lives where it’s all about what’s in your head, meanwhile everybody else has to work with their hands, even the children of these boomers, at least those without rich parents with connections getting them internships.

But you cannot say all this. Because the boomer left’s heart is in the right place. Biden is the only option. Meanwhile, the younger generation is so pessimistic that they can’t come out to vote for Bernie or Warren and their future is so compromised that they cannot get worked up by McConnell’s desire to fill RBG’s position on the Supreme Court instantly.

This is how it is in authoritarian countries. The general public accepts the reality and tries to live its life, do its best not to touch the third rail and get arrested. Of course there are always active protesters, but the public at large…

Then again, the public at large came out in the wake of George Floyd, there was spontaneous combustion. There might be spontaneous combustion if there’s a new right wing justice, or if Trump steals the election, one cannot predict the future.

But one can plan for it.

It’s always about hearts and minds, after economics, of course, if you can’t put food on the table and a roof over your head there’s nothing else you can think about. And the left sacrificed hearts and minds while the right indoctrinated its constituency to the point they’re blind followers hoodwinked by the party’s elite to believe that if Democrats gain power America as they know it will cease to exist, even though life would get better for almost all of them.

So it doesn’t pay to criticize the right, as heinous as its activities might be, the only way forward is via a left wing agenda that works for all people. Even if Biden gets elected most problems will not be solved, not that you can say this, but the truth is Biden is not gonna get rid of the carried interest rule, because private equity pays too much for influence. Once again, money in politics is rampant to the point that the left is disillusioned completely. Bernie shows it’s about rallying the people, that you can raise more money that way, and Biden can’t raise almost any from the public, which is a bad sign, but the DNC ensured that Biden became the candidate and you must vote for him or else. How appealing is that?

But it’s really not about politics, it’s about money, lifestyle. The creeping income inequality has eviscerated the middle class and those without, struggling to make a living on both the right and the left, don’t trust the government to help them. Washington, D.C. is show business for ugly people, and they’d rather watch Netflix than the news.

But no one can be guilty in America. Or, if you are, you go to rehab and are instantly cured. No one can take responsibility. When you’ve got no values, your culture becomes desiccated. Yes, values are a left wing issue too, but they’re only mentioned by the right.

The American Dream is already in the rearview mirror. It’s not only climate change that we’ve let persist unaddressed for all these years.

And you wonder why a strongman promising a solution to these problems, however fallacious, succeeds. The people need hope. That their lives can improve, that the playing field will no longer be tilted. But the truth is no one with a dollar, no one in power truly wants that, they just want to keep the proletariat mildly happy as they continue to rape and pillage.

And that’s where we’re at.

SPANISH MOON（SADDLE PEAK DEMOS）LOWELL GEORGE

I went down the rabbit hole. It started two days ago, I needed to hear Bonnie Raitt’s “Nothing Seems To Matter,” but I ended up getting sidetracked by this genius bootleg from Philly back in ’72, I wanted to write about it, how it tied in with the first album and…the night got away from me. But today’s been ultra-busy and after finally sending my last e-mail I decided to return to where I was, but I wasn’t in the same mood. Funny how that works, you’ve got to capture the lightning during the storm, the next day just won’t work.

But then I decided to look for live versions of “That Song About The Midway” on YouTube and I found one but the sound was imperfect, however Raitt was backed up by Little Feat.

They were tied together back then. Supposedly Lowell George started out as the producer of “Takin’ My Time” but then he got sick or didn’t deliver the goods and he was replaced by John Hall. “Takin’ My Time” was supposed to be the breakthrough, but it was not. That didn’t arrive until three albums later, with Bonnie’s cover of “Runaway” on 1977’s “Sweet Forgiveness.” And the truth is that the two best Bonnie Raitt albums are 1972’s earthy, immediate “Give It Up,” and “Luck Of The Draw,” the 1991 follow-up to “Nick Of Time,” Don Was allowed Bonnie to be herself and Ed Cherney got such an exquisite sound it’ll haunt you. “Something To Talk About” and “I Can’t Make You Love Me” are the famous tracks, but “One Part Be My Lover” is the best, with a lyric I’ve never seen done so well anywhere else, about the ambivalent lover, and then there’s the title track, written by Paul Brady and the down in the gutter groove of “Slow Ride” but now I’m going down a different rabbit hole. So, all this is to say there’s a cut on “Takin’ My Time” that transcends everything else on the album, a cover of Chris Smither’s “I Feel The Same,” a complete reworking, it’s the same song but not the same track, and what makes it so great is the slide playing, the chicken pickin’ which is not credited but just has to be Lowell George or inspired by him, Lowell was famous for being tasty, never playing two notes if one would do.

So, Bonnie’s cover with Little Feat of “Can’t Find My Way Home” is no longer a rarity, but what else did the band do together that’s findable on YouTube? Plenty it turns out. The most memorable of which is a performance on “The Midnight Special” from 1977. Yes, Little Feat were on “The Midnight Special,” which was famously live as opposed to Don Kirshner’s travesty on Saturday night. And the highlight is a cover of “Dixie Chicken,” a complete stiff back then, but a legendary song today.

But it gets even better. Lowell is in rare form, his honeyed voice intact, but what pushes it over the top is Bonnie Raitt and Emmylou Harris are backup singers, never mind Jesse Winchester adding to the mix.

So…when you watch Bonnie and Emmylou sing together at the single mic you’ll be brought back to what once was. They’re so into it, playing subsidiary roles, the only thing that’s important being the music. Check it out:

Little Feat – Dixie Chicken (with Emmylou Harris & Bonnie Raitt) Live 1977. HQ Video.

This is the kind of stuff we lived for in the heyday of Napster, but then file-trading died and we got excited about YouTube but then time went by and now it’s all in the rearview mirror, there’s a huge schism between what was and what now is, this stuff is easily searchable, easily findable, much easier than in the Napster days, but there’s no buzz about it.

But I’m one of the few people who don’t love “Dixie Chicken.” I mean I like it, this performance is amazing, but it’s not my favorite from that album. But one song that is my favorite is “Easy To Slip,” the opening cut on Little Feat’s second album, 1972’s “Sailin’ Shoes,” which I bought in ’73 after getting hooked by “Dixie Chicken,” but at the time, during the seventies, I never found another soul who owned the LP, not one.

“Easy To Slip” was the song I sang as I banged the bumps at the ‘Bird, back in ’75 & ’76, to the point where others started to sing it even though they’d never heard the record, could there be a live version of “Easy To Slip” on YouTube?

I couldn’t find one, but I found something even better, a demo of the song from February 5th 1971. REALLY? Well, you can’t trust the labels on YouTube, but this is definitely rough like a demo, like a rehearsal tape and it has a completely different chorus, and it’s so authentic, so from the gut it’s a revelation, assuming you care, which I certainly do.

So now I click to find out what else this guy has posted on YouTube.

Oh, right, check out “Easy To Slip” here:

Earl Guthrie

And this guy’s got a plethora of stuff, and now I’m searching for a definitive version of “Willin’,” but the truth is that Lowell’s versions are all slow, the best iteration is still the unavailable on streaming services one from Seatrain. But thank god it lives on on YouTube. If you’re used to Linda’s take, everybody else’s cover, you might not cotton to it at first, but check it out here:

Seatrain Willin’

But the truth is the killer on that LP is the follow-up track, “Song Of Job”:

Book of Job Seatrain Song of Job

No one makes music like this anymore, but it fit right in in the seventies.

So, searching for a live version of “Willin'” I of course come across ones by Linda Ronstadt, but then I find a version of “The First Cut Is The Deepest,” I never knew Linda sang that!

Linda Ronstadt – First Cut is the Deepest

But I’m interested in Little Feat. And then my clicking leads me to something called “The Saddle Peak Demos.” The track list is amazing, check it out (it’s the pic on the YouTube page linked to at the top), but they’re all not available, probably were in the heyday of Napster, but damn! And I’m listening, and it’s all interesting, and then I click on “Spanish Moon.”

“Spanish Moon.” It took four albums for Little Feat to break through, to have a hit, but it was Billy Payne’s “Oh Atlanta,” not one of Lowell’s numbers. And over time the band morphed, there were fewer Lowell songs and ultimately he O.D.’ed. Yup, at 34, can you believe it?

But the fourth album, “Feats Don’t Fail Me Now,” the one with Payne’s hit, from 1974, was uneven, it was not the breakthrough of the otherworldly “Dixie Chicken” which came before.

So, the band soldiered on. Word was they were a great live act, they got some traction in the U.K., but when I moved to L.A. in the fall of ’74 you could still see them at the Troubadour, I went, it was not sold out. And sure, there was the 1978 double live album “Waiting For Columbus” with the Tower Of Power horns but if you’d seen the band there was still something missing, you see Little Feat was not always loud and in your face, that side was not represented.

So I’m clicking around, the take of “Two Trains” from the Saddle Peak Demos is for fans only and then, and then, AND THEN…I STUMBLE ON SPANISH MOON!

“Spanish Moon” was on “Feats Don’t Fail Me Now,” but that version was superseded in the public consciousness by the live take on “Waiting For Columbus,” deservedly so. And I’ve got “Spanish Moon” playing on YouTube as I continue to research and then it starts to catch my ear. It’s obviously not a demo, especially when Lowell calls out to the Tower Of Power horns, but it hasn’t been through the studio wringer, it hasn’t been treated, it hasn’t been mixed to the point where the rough edges are gone, it truly sounds live, and it’s more immediate than anything on “Waiting For Columbus.”

Sam’s congas start it off, the groove is laid, but it’s Billy Payne’s keyboard that grabs you along with the horns, and Lowell is truly the leader of the band, he’s not playing to the back row, he’s not trying to impress anybody, he’s just doing what he does, which he can instinctively only do right.

And it’s Billy’s break that truly piqued my interest, he’s soloing after Lowell stops singing and the organ sounds almost cheesy, the way it sounds in church, it’s authentic.

And now the band is one cohesive locomotive.

There’s WHISKEY and BAD COCAINE!

This is the seventies, back when the marching powder was not considered addictive, when it ruled Hollywood and those at home were out of the loop, back when you could still be a musician living the musician life as opposed to being a star. Oh, everybody wanted more, but what they really wanted to do was get high, get laid and play music. Push the musical and personal envelopes both. This was not the internet era, we knew almost nothing about these people’s personal lives, their trials and tribulations.

And the truth is a lot of music was played in those bars, that’s where you started out, not TikTok.

There was HOOKERS and HUSTLERS they filled up the room

We just watched the hookers episode of “Borgen” last night.

The Spanish Moon’s attraction was the dark girl singing while she played the guitar. It was the music, not the brand, we were all following the pied piper.

And the way this version of “Spanish Moon” ends with Kenny Gradney’s bass…they truly captured lightning in a bottle.

So, I go to Spotify, what other takes of “Spanish Moon” can I find? None with Lowell, but I do find covers by Gov’t Mule and Derek Trucks and the String Cheese Incident and even the Arc Angels. Funny how Lowell and Little Feat influenced the players, even if many of the listeners were out of the loop, and may still be.

And then I start thinking, not only about the sadness of Lowell’s passing, but Little Feat’s career. The band really never broke through to the masses, to stardom. And that’s when I realized, they were out of time, their time is NOW!

It was nearly impossible for Little Feat to have a ubiquitous hit in the seventies, but now, in 2020, IT’S LITERALLY IMPOSSIBLE! There’s no reason to shoot for the stars because you can’t get there!

And this music lives live, and word is spread online. Radio is not a factor. And if you’re good enough, word gets around, you become a god in your world, and believe me Little Feat with Lowell George would be gods today. Can you imagine them on stage at Bonnaroo, any place where it’s one and done, purely about the experience? This world gets little press, but it’s huge, it’s the antidote to the Spotify Top 50, and the circuit and its fans will support you quite well, just ask Warren Haynes or Derek Trucks, and as good as they both are, they would admit that Lowell was better, sure, he could play, but he could also sing AND WRITE!

And if you’re a newbie, you might not get it at all. But this performance was done without a net, without hard drives, it’s all live, it’s music, it’s the essence of rock and roll.

Down the street I heard such a sorrowful tune
‘Comin’ from the place they call the Spanish Moon

What?

I hadn’t heard about it until this morning, but my inbox is filling up with references to it and one Norm Eisen, a name that will draw a blank with most people not part of the Murdoch bubble. This is Saul Alinsky all over again, a man almost no Democrat had ever heard of was suddenly the main force behind their efforts. This is the Republican playbook, create a target, demonize him or her and warn of the ending of society as we know it, therefore illustrating why Democrats should never be allowed behind the steering wheel.

Yesterday I wrote about the Democrats needing a plan to deal with Trump’s calling the election for himself whether he wins or not, how the rank and file need to be made aware of this, and now the right, the Republicans, are already ahead on this issue and saying the problem is the DEMOCRATS!

We’ve seen this movie before, with “fake news.” Somehow Trump turned it around, to his favor, that the problem was the news industry at large, not his falsehoods. And now we’ve got a recalcitrant media which reacts to the president at best, which is afraid of going out on a limb for fear of being excoriated.

The left really has no idea what is going on in Fox Nation, it’s got its head in the sand, believing if it just ignores the insanity it will go away. Susan Powter tried to stop the insanity, but that didn’t work, one person cannot stand up to either fat or an army of tens of millions, you need everybody to get on the same page. If you watch television news I implore you to turn on Fox, if you’re anti-flat-screen go to foxnews.com multiple times a day, it’s like an alternative universe, there are stories that never make it to the platform and every article is spun to the advantage of Trump, not that you can say this, no one has as thin a skin as a Republican, but you should be informed, since the number one rule of warfare is know thine enemy.

The left is clueless.

So, you need to watch this Tucker Carlson clip from last night:

“Darren Beattie & Tucker Carlson Discuss Color Revolutions & The Plot To Oust President Trump”

Then I point you to today’s “Independent”:

“QAnon: Mysterious conspiracy leader points followers to Tucker Carlson interview warning of ‘coup’ against Trump – Fox News host featured disgraced ex-White House speechwriter promulgating a Kremlin-style conspiracy theory about the Democrats’ supposed plan to wreck the election”

Why “The Independent”? Because it was the second hit on Google when I searched on “Norm Eisen,” the first from a well-known news outlet. We live in a networked world, “The Guardian” has more impact in the U.S., more traction than all the local newspapers brain-dead journalists living in the past are trying to save. Furthermore, “The Guardian” does it without a paywall.

So, if you read “The Independent” article you’ll see the power of not only Fox, but the power of Q. Yes, you’re laughing, but QAnon is real in the minds of Trumpers, and if you say it’s irrelevant get back to me after you read about Pizzagate.

This news is not in “The New York Times” or “The Washington Post,” I just checked. So, chances are unless you’re watching Fox you’re unaware, but you should know. Once again, our news outlets are letting us down.

And then we’ve got the ongoing campaign of Bill Barr:

“Barr’s undermining of the election is downright dangerous”

Barr goes on Fox and says it’s b.s. that Trump would stay in office if he loses, but then he goes on endlessly about fraud in the election, undermining the process.

Meanwhile, the Democrats keep trumpeting the process, saying to believe in it, it’s our route to victory. But have you ever heard the aphorism if you win you still lose? That is what is going to happen with the Democrats.

So, the Republicans are undermining the validity of the election results long before the counting begins, and fearmongering that the Democrats will end American society as we know it and most Democratic voters are absolutely clueless as to what is going on. All we’ve got is these inane e-mails from people telling us to VOTE! Sure, vote, I will, you should. But that is not the battle here. Look at the polls. Biden is ahead. But it’s not about the polls but the count. How can you win if the game is declared false, unreliable, rigged? This is how we lost truth, facts in America, and now the same thing is gonna happen with elections.

As for social media, I point you to the cover of the new edition of “Businessweek”:

“Facebook Is Basically In The Tank For Trump, Says Bloomberg Businessweek – On the magazine’s latest cover, Alfred E. Zuckerberg, let’s call him, dons a Make America Great Again hat and asks, ‘What, Me Partisan?'”

“Businessweek” and “The Atlantic” are being aggressive. “The New York Times” and “The Washington Post” are so busy just reporting the news that they’re not getting the proper message across. As for MSNBC…that’s like the He-Man’s Woman-Haters Club from “The Little Rascals,” an insular club of like-minded people that does not affect the world at large.

And now we’ve got Tucker Carlson featuring a woman claiming that the virus was man-made and it’s flagged on Facebook and Instagram and lives on Twitter:

Facebook and Instagram Flag Tucker Carlson Virus Posts

Yet now Carlson is fighting back:

“Tucker Carlson Cries Censorship After His COVID-19 Posts Flagged as Misinformation by Facebook, Instagram”

And you wonder why Republicans fail to wear masks.

Yes, social media is complicit. But, once again, the Democrats just tell us to vote for laid back Old Joe who can’t even get any traction in the media, who is two-dimensional in most people’s minds, other than the Republicans who keep saying he’s demented and evil, and that everything will work out. THAT’S B.S! Because first and foremost the odds of Biden actually getting into office are slim, because the right has been fomenting an all hands on deck campaign against the system itself.

Wake up. The right’s game plan is in plain sight. And if you’re not ready to stand up to it, if you’re not willing to go on the offensive, you’re gonna find yourself losing once again, scratching your head, wondering how we got into this fix as you truly lose your freedom. Yes, that’s a left wing concept, not a right, CAN’T WE RECLAIM IT!

Guitarist extraordinaire Joe Bonamassa opines on his upcoming couch concert from the Ryman on September 20th and also discusses his upbringing, his place in the musical landscape, how he and his manager four wall his shows and at the end we delve deeply into guitar collecting. Self-deprecating yet quick-witted, I could have talked to Joe for hours more.

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