The early days of Aretha

She traveled to Muscle Shoals, Alabama, and made her first million seller. The story is fascinating and this clip is part of a much longer movie:

The natural sevenths that she sings are unbelievable - she brought the church to popular music. Them good ol' boys in bibby overhauls made it happen.

The music without the story.

Things that frighten people:

I had a friend from Sylacauga Alabama who said "There are two kinds of snakes in this world - snakes that hurt you and snakes that make you hurt yourself."

Today as I was sweeping my shop (it could happen) I saw a black snake slithering away from me in the sawdust. I jumped back pretty good.



In deference to the gentle folk among us I will only include a picture of a snake I found in a maple tree once.

Things that frighten dogs: autonomous lawn mowers. Seriously, we were out walking and encountered one - the dogs reacted with fear, amazement and much barking. They had never seen anything like it - it was rolling along, making noise, no humans nearby. '

So there you have it - robots can take over even the most menial of tasks.

WRT my previous post:
I agree with CL that Dr. John's singing is rough, but his piano playing is smooth.