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[Terrapin Station]

Punch Brothers - "When in Doubt"

[Steve3007]

When in doubt, play some interesting bluegrassy string sounds, it seems.

[Papus79]

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[Sy Borg]

This amazes me:

""The Orchestrion Project was filmed at the former St Elias Church in Greenpoint, Brooklyn in November 2010. It features Pat Metheny on guitar performing with the Orchestrion, a vast collection of mechanical instruments that surround Pat Metheny in this atmospheric setting.

The focus of the performance is the Orchestrion Suite, a work written specifically for this combination and debuted on Pat Metheny's Orchestrion album released earlier in 2010. Added to this are other tracks from across Metheny's prolific career going right back to Unity Village from his debut solo album Bright Size Life in 1976 and including other tracks from the seventies, eighties and nineties.

This is a unique collaboration between a master guitarist and the pinnacle of mechanical music.

[Papus79]

TY, Pat always brings the goods.

[Steve3007]

RIP Ronald "Kool" Bell. Get down.

[Steve3007]

i was just looking for an interview I remember between Woody Guthrie and Elizabeth Lomax in which he talks to her a bit about the 1930's dust bowl and then sings "Dust Pneumonia" (Dust noo moe knee) because I wanted to hear him again using the word "lit" to mean "land on". Something like: "all that dust lit on the floor...". I'm intrigued as to how the word lit/light is used.

Anyway, couldn't find it, but found a funny little snippet of him sticking it to the current president's pop. Tell it like it is Woody.

[Pattern-chaser]

"Framed" by "The Sensational Alex Harvey Band. This is crackin' heavy rock, and should be enjoyed by everyone at least once every year. Alex died young, very possibly whisky-related, IIRC. A sad loss. Check out "Next" and "Live" too, if you enjoy this.


Warning for the unwary: Alex made a few duds too, which are well worth avoiding. E.g. the mafia stole my guitar. Stick to the good ones; they're great!

[Papus79]

[Papus79]

[Pattern-chaser]

i was just looking for an interview I remember between Woody Guthrie and Elizabeth Lomax in which he talks to her a bit about the 1930's dust bowl and then sings "Dust Pneumonia" (Dust noo moe knee) because I wanted to hear him again using the word "lit" to mean "land on". Something like: "all that dust lit on the floor...". I'm intrigued as to how the word lit/light is used. Anyway, couldn't find it...

This intrigued me too, so I had a poke around. I had to search some of the internet's dustier corners before I found anything useful, though. I had it in mind that the meaning we're looking for was allied to "alight", and so it proved, when I finally managed to find something.

Here is a link that lists "alight" and "light" as synonyms for dismount. And here "alight", in the sense of to land, has "light" listed as a synonym.

And it does seem to get a little more interesting, before the trail peters out. Here's a link to "light into" in the sense of attack, and (perhaps a little closer to what we're after) here's another to "light on", meaning settle or discover.

So I'm wondering if your dust that lit on the floor, also settled there?

[Steve3007]

This intrigued me too...

Thanks for doing that research! I'd suspected that "light" was related to "alight", in the dust context, but as a synonym for "attack" - wouldn't have guessed that at all. Maybe that's the root of the use of "light" in "Light out for the territories" (Mark Twain). The "territories" being the US states that weren't yet states at the time that Mark Twain was writing. So "lighting out for the territories" is roughly what Australian aborigines would call "going walkabout".

I heard the term "light out for the territories" in the Coen Brothers film "No Country For Old Men".

Somehow seems like the most cruel and heartless murder that Anton Chigurh commits, given that guy's natural old fashioned salt of the earth neighbourliness and open chattiness.

So I'm wondering if your dust that lit on the floor, also settled there?

Yep. Reckon.