HOWDY FOLKS!
First the Howdy Folks. I'm pleased to meet 'cha if yer out there (I have no idea if you are but this is my inaugural post on SubStack and nothin' better than startin' the day out with a greetin').
ME:
If you're unfamiliar with The Beverly Hillbillies you might not recognize the lady under the tin pot / crackpot hat (practical and far sturdier than tin foil, my friends) or my alter-ego nom-de-plume (nom-de-turkey feather is more like it) – Granny Clampett (aka Daisy Moses). Granny is tough, fiercely protective of her "kinfolk," stubborn and ornery, big-hearted, unashamed of being herself, known to creatively use ordinary objects for unintended-but-pretty-durn-useful purpose,* loud-mouthed / opinionated, cranky at times, scrappy, bossy, unimpressed by glitz and fat wallets, apt. to cure things with home remedies, prone to brief moments of maudlin sentimentality, pretty good at cookin' up hogs jowls n' possum,not a snappy dresser but none too embarrassed to wear a silly hat, not givin' a hoot about being "pc" or gawd ferbid "woke" (apart from "Mornin' ,I jes woke up!") or following the crowd—any crowd, soft on old-timey music and "jiggin' " (when she's all fired up!), and for all that—she's short.
*just repurposed a suet slab holder for birds to use as a cell-phone lockbox…
That about sums me up too 'cept I have big feet. I prefer good strong coffee to homemade fire water and my "nose to tail" cookin' has not yet actually included possum (though yes, hogs jowls have indeed been on the menu here, and if we end up starvin' in some apocalyptic nightmare I may indeed be cookin' up some actual roadkill possum "vittles" to "keep the fambly fed.") 'Nuff said about me… let's git down to some writin' (I may get back to the actual me a bit more but for now ya got a spoonful from the pot).
By the by, I'm not remotely from the South but I've got a big place in my heart for Hee Haw, Opry, (Old) Country Music—think Hank Sr not Jr – all the Roys (Rogers, Acuff, Clark) and Johnny Cash, not to mention Rockabilly, and I love love love me some countrified Camp (all kinds iffin' it's good—Minnie Pearl’s near and dear to ma heart). Cue the Flatt n' Scruggs too. My favorite coffee cup sez "Maw Yer Coffee's Ready – Come Git it!" I got it… here we go.
OH and movin' forward—I'm going to just SPEAK MY MIND about things like liberty (quaint old notion) and independent thinking and why people have ALL LOST THEIR MINDS which will bring me to Part 1 of my first post entitled, " DATE WHICH WILL LIVE IN INFAMY DUE TO NYC MAYOR'S APPALLING ATTACK ON PERSONAL LIBERTIES"
Don't turn that dial…
-yer pal, Daisy Moses
I think I left NYC before you got there (Columbia 69-72). Visited once for a trade show about 1985.
My Mom was from Kentucky, so I know about burgoo and even cooked it a few times. If you ever do have to eat possum, then burgoo, which some recipes refer to as a dish of opportunity, might be a way to go.
Not sure where you'd need to go to find possums in NY...maybe some illegal underground food club or guy-who-knows-a-gal-who-knows-a-guy process where the chain of custody (or provenance, if you're into watching that NPR TV show 'Antiques Roadkill') is about as strong as a bunch of paperclips strung together?
Maybe I misread one of your comments but I got the impression that you put Iggy Pop in the 'Like' columns but not in the 'really gonzo' column. And I read that you liked Hank Williams Sr, so curious to get your take on this HW cover. The 2nd clip is her being somewhat more conventional.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrVDvMrlTKM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtdwL2yBKWQ
Afternoon back to ya (Ron, yes?) - Daniel Johnston is durn interesting, sometimes brilliant--his writin', drawings--all worth checkin' out!
Enjoyed the Leningrad Cowboys Skynrd cover--liked the Volga Boatmen riff! (I know'a them but not that cover!) They hold back a little compared to the original but they make it up in novelty n' crazy hair which I like plenty! Didn't know Carolyn Wonderland- good strong voice, she seems to channel Janis Joplin some (Janis was amazin'! her early blues are 'specially good too!). The last Diamanda piece was good--yup, that non-screechy stuff is really the only'a her work I can really listen'ta for a spell. Her range is fascinatin' and her whole "oeuvre" (egg'o'v'a career) equally so.
Yup, most've this is on YT which I hate (cuz they'ze otherwise evil and they cancel truth-tellers like worms comin' out in the rain) BUT then again, I love that so much good music IS on YT (much'a the obscure stuff is ONLY on YT) so I gotta love-hate rela'shun'ship with YT like Robert Mitchum's Night of the Hunter's knuckles! Thanks for the shares!