Geography Div (More 2B or Not2B subsection)

A while back we looked at suicide. Here's some more...... 

April 27, 2018

SUICIDE RATES CLIMB IN EVERY REGION IN USA FROM 99-2015

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div

He recently announced that he's leaving the band that bears his name. Here's the Darrell Webb Band doing Lost John.



Darrell Webb – mandolin, Rachel Maye – fiddle, Carl White – bass, Jared Hensley – guitar and Sam Crabtree - banjo

Geography Div (historic things subsection)

Today in 1927 (well in France anyway) Charles Lindberg completed the first solo flight across the Atlantic Ocean. Thus establishing the rule that all times on airline schedules are local (heh).

Coincidently, on this same date five years later (1932) Amelia Earhart completed the first Atlantic solo by a woman. (Newfoundland - Ireland)

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div ( sorta old timey subsection)

David Davis and the Warrior River Boys doing the old Charley Poole number Milwaukee Blues. 
It's got most of those old timey things: hoboes, trains, twangy singing (heh), and some great acoustic accompaniment.



Warrior River Boys:  David Davis on mandolin and lead vocal,Robert Montgomery on banjo, Marty Hays on bass, Stan Wilemon on guitar, and Philip James on fiddle.

Geography Div (Long way to go subsection)

Today, in 1804 Captains Meriwether Lewis And William Clark set off from St Louis to fulfill their commission from President Thomas Jefferson to explore the newly acquired Louisiana Territory.

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div (Different Styles subsection)

I've never been a fan (probably because I can't) of frailing banjo. Here are John McEuen, one of the founders of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band and Earl Scruggs doing the old fiddle tune Soldiers Joy.

SPEAKING TRUTH DIV

On MSNBC today, Republican operative Steve Schmidt had his say on John McCain and that fraud currently occupying the White House.



That is all ................

Vision Div (Founding Fathers subsection)

So many folks are always going around quoting the "Founding Fathers" (usually those on the right of the political spectrum). Here's one for any and all to ponder:

“When it shall be said in any country in the world,’ my poor are happy, neither ignorance nor distress is to be found among them; my jails are empty of prisoners; my streets of beggars; the aged are not in want; the taxes are not oppressive; the rational world is my friend because I am a friend of its happiness’; when these things can be said, then may that country boast its constitution and its government.” 

Thomas Paine — Rights of Man, Part the Second 

Geography Div (Had the flu yet ? subsection)

The past season was pretty rough for the flu -- I had it and I'd gotten vaccinated. This representation sort of jumped out at me since I live in South Dakota. Naturally, we don't have a million people, so naturally the rate is pretty high. (We also have only one area code, but two time zones and, one would think one political party).

A Little Saturday Nite Bluegrass Div (More from the international subsection)

A group from (where else?) Barcelona, Spain doing a cover of Mark Knopfler's Marbletown.



Barcelona Bluegrass Band: Lluis Gomez - Banjo, Joan Pau Cumellas - Guitar, Maribel Rivero - Bass and Miguel Talavera - Harmonica.