Beaver Pond Wildlife: Part 3 - Early to Mid Summer
Watched Part 3 today. It is a wonderful video from RA at New England Forests.
According to the webstite, this film series spans a year's time at typical beaver ponds in New England. In this, Part 3, nesting season has wrapped up for most bird species near the pond, but there's plenty happening both above and below the pond's surface.
Also, finalized our tax returns in West Hartford (great news for us).
Haircut in the 'Locks.
Guitar II
My on-going pathway of learning guitar...
The second Lesson Book I have completed thoroughly was:
Mel Bay's New Sounds for Electric Bass and Guitar by Roger Filberto.
This was something I had learned long ago when I studied Bass Guitar during the summer I began High School.
Originally completed from November 1977 through February 1978.
Worked my way through this once again, but this time with the Guitar.
Shift at JMH & TA.
PT at LED late afternoon.
Michael Hurley, singer-songwriter and 'Godfather of freak folk,' dies at 83.
"It is with a resounding sadness that the Hurley family announces the recent sudden passing of the inimitable Michael Hurley,” Hurley's family said in a statement to Rolling Stone. “The ‘Godfather of freak folk’ was for a prolific half-century the purveyor of an eccentric genius and compassionate wit. He alone was Snock. There is no other. Friends, family, and the music community deeply mourn his loss.”
Hurley, born in Pennsylvania, honed his cracked perspective on bluegrass, blues and folk in the Greenwich Village folk scene in New York in the '60s, after producer and folklorist Fred Ramsey picked him up on a hitchiking ramble. He released his debut album, 1964's "First Songs," on Folkways, the acclaimed home of Woody Guthrie and curator Harry Smith’s "Anthology of American Folk Music."
Hurley's talents were manifold — he designed and illustrated most of his charming hand-drawn album art, and learned a diversity of instruments including banjo and fiddle. His songs had a stark, strange quality that could be both beautiful (as on "Be Kind to Me" and "Valley of Tears") and surreal ("What Made My Hamburger Disappear?" or "You’re a Dog; Don’t Talk to Me"). He was a childhood friend of future Youngbloods singer Jesse Colin Young, who would champion Hurley's skewed vision by releasing 1971’s "Armchair Boogie" and 1972’s "Hi Fi Snock Uptown" on his Warner Bros. imprint Raccoon.
1976's "Have Moicy!" became an underground cult favorite, and his rapidly expanding catalog would grow to more than 30 LPs. This collaboration with the Unholy Modal Rounders (a spin-off of the Holy Modal Rounders) and Jeffrey Frederick & The Clamtones, received much critical praise. Music critic Robert Christgau ranked it as his favorite album of the year.
His song, "Hog of the Forsaken", was used in the closing credits for the pilot episode of the series and the closing of Deadwood: The Movie.
Discography
Locally, I Unloaded fifty bails of Hay with my Pop at the Auction mid-morning, and another two pick-ups worth from other farmers dropping off hay,
Shift at JMH early.