Only one more day to file your application to the Board of Elections if you want to run for an office this year. There are seats open on City Council, Board of Commissioners and the Board of Education. A few new people registered yesterday for election / re-election: Edward Wilson, James C. Kearney, Sr., Terry Garrison, Emeron J. Cash, Sr., and Vernon Brown. See our running list here: http://homeinhenderson.com/2012/02/28/candidates-filed-so-far-in-local-districts/
Last night, PBS aired the White House Red, White & Blues Concert that was filmed last week.
BB King, Mick Jagger, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Keb Mo and many others come to the White House in a celebration of the blues. Take a look inside the rehearsals and hear what artists had to say about being at the White House and the magic that is blues music. As President Obama said, “this music speaks to something universal. No one goes through life without both joy and pain, triumph and sorrow. The blues gets all of that, sometimes with just one lyric or one note. (additional footage courtesy of WETA)
Backstage at the concert music duo, Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks were on hand in the East Wing, for our “In Performance at the White House: Red, White & Blues” concert.
Susan Tedeschi and Derek Trucks are American music royalty. Tedeschi has an iconic voice and has toured with B.B. King, Bob Dylan, and the Rolling Stones. Trucks is a prodigy — who Rolling Stone has twice named one of the best guitarists of all time. The two married in 2001 and formed the Tedeschi Trucks Band in 2010.
They were on hand for the Red, White & Blues event at the White House this week, where they sat down for a backstage performance in the East Wing.
Keb Mo is a singer, songwriter, and blues guitarist. He’s a three-time Grammy award winner. And in 2006, in the final episode of The West Wing, he sang “America the Beautiful” at the inaguration of President Matt Santos.
Last week, he sat down inside the White House to reprise that performance. Check it out:
Warren Haynes is one of Rolling Stone‘s 25 greatest guitarists of all time. He’s earned a powerful reputation for his fiery blues work with The Allman Brothers Band, The Dead and the Dave Matthews Band and also distinguished himself as a songwriter and leader of his own group, Gov’t Mule.
Haynes was at the White House last week for the Red, White & Blues event, and he sat down for a backstage performance in the East Wing.
Watch as he sings “River’s Gonna Rise,” and tune in for the entire “In Performance at the White House” concert on http://www.pbs.org/inperformanceatthewhitehouse/
At the In Performance at the White House: Red, White & Blues event, President Barack Obama sings Sweet Home Chicago.
Your assignment for the comments below: Write a blues song for Henderson and Vance County
Discuss and more on today’s Open Lines!
Well I rolled and I tumbled, cried the whole night long
When I rolled and I tumbled, Cause the good times gone
Well I woke up this morning’, didn’t know we had done any wrong
Well, I told my readers, if you want to change this town
Well, I told my readers, better have a look around
Well, ahh, mmm-hmmm, owww, oww ooo, aww, oww, oh
Aaa, mmm-hmmm, oww, oh oh oh owww, oww ooo, aww, oww, oh
Well, if these streets is whiskey, and I was driving a truck
Well, if these people are thirsty, and we aint got no luck
Well, I’d just drive my truck, and would not give a .. shucks
Well, we could have a good Hen’son, we got this old thing instead
Well, if we could have a good Hen’son, cops could just stay in their beds
But, for all the whiskey and drugs, kids getting shot in the head
Hey, hey, hey, hey , hey , hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey , hey , hey, hey, hey
yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh
The players be rollin’ and tumblin’
For the whole night long
The addicts be rollin’ and tumblin’
For the whole week long
When I woke up this mornin’ babe
I thought our town was gone
When I rolled my baby
I realized I was wrong
Said I rolled on over
get these bad people out
If that rail rolls up, boys
Throw them on to go home
Hey, hey, hey, hey , hey , hey, hey, hey
Hey, hey, hey, hey , hey , hey, hey, hey
yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh, yeh
Well engine driver blows that whistle
Bring the good people in
Say engine driver blows that whistle
Take the bad vibes away
Well, I didn’t have time, boys
To make it in Hen’son today
I hope that no one was injured in this afternoon’s school bus wreck on Norlina Drive. Looked like the bus had been rear ended.
Phil, I lack song writing skills.