The Free Electric Band

Here’s an upbeat paean by Albert Hammond to the power of music to take a person down a different path than planned.

You know it’s wet if…

We’re in pretty good shape here in our high spot in a small town well away from a river.

Still, the operant words are “lush” and “squish.”

USDA reports for our state detail how far behind planting is. We’re not in as bad a state as areas of Nebraska which will likely not see planting at all, but producers in our area aren’t happy.

Topsoil moisture in the recent USDA report  was zero percent very short, zero percent short, 52 percent adequate and 42 percent surplus.

There were goose eggs again for subsoil measurements: zero percent very short, zero percent short with similar numbers for “adequate” and “surplus.”

It’s a weird spring. Squish… squish…

Revolution

I can’t believe it’s taken me this long to post this classic. Maybe it’s so obvious, it needs no reminding. But, there it is.

Bad Wolves cover The Cranberries “Zombie” in memory of Dolores O’Riordan and give it additional piquancy.

The tune is a pairing of the now-popular post-apocalyptic zombie theme with eternal violence, specifically, the deaths of Johnathan Ball and Tim Parry in the second 1993 IRA bombing in Warrington, England on February 26.

Here’s a video of a live performance by the band. It shows O’Riordan performing the song (scarcely bigger than the hollow-body guitar she plays) in front of an audience who knows the hit very well.

Cortez the Killer

Grace Potter, et al, deliver “Cortez the Killer,” Neil Young’s trademark tune. The players really get into their parts. Love the expressiveness of this piece and the description of two cultures colliding.