tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post6818506864310679861..comments2024-03-28T14:13:23.835-04:00Comments on By Neddie Jingo!: Soul-ButterNeddiehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17079885040758748553noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-76260933521106750552012-04-01T14:19:08.891-04:002012-04-01T14:19:08.891-04:00Interesting...interesting...
My band's name is...Interesting...interesting...<br />My band's name is Soul Butter.<br />We came up with it one afternoon...THEN looked it up.<br />Though I read Huck Finn as a kid, I certainly didn't recall that passage.<br />In our group of friends, 'butter' is often used to describe really-cool things..."that was butter"..."that music melted my butter"...etc...<br />The 'Soul' was our add-on...something blue-collar, something groovy. Anyway...I just couldn't resist posting.<br />I find it interesting how word-phrases...even independently developed, still have a SENSE about them...is it the phonetics? or the entymology? Does a fish believe in water?<br /><br />here's a link:<br />http://reverbnation.com/soulbutterJulian Ruckhttp://facebook.com/soulbutterbandnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-91715119702506291802008-02-07T15:03:00.000-05:002008-02-07T15:03:00.000-05:00Damn, I love this place. Freakwater, The Mekons, ...Damn, I love this place. Freakwater, The Mekons, Steve Earle...<BR/>Also the Undercover Black Man blog that I linked to for the Chocolate Drops is a consistently good read and has regularly pointed me in the direction of some fine music.dwgshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10802983136638036023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-79017234771442950182008-02-06T16:11:00.000-05:002008-02-06T16:11:00.000-05:00Have you listened to Jon Langford's Executioner's ...Have you listened to Jon Langford's Executioner's Last Songs project?<BR/><BR/>He started it as an anti-death penalty benefit, to "reclaim and consign to History these songs of Murder and Death" and he paired up all kinds of performers with old country and blues and bluegrass songs with death in 'em. (except for a version of 999's "Homicide")<BR/><BR/>I think that Freakwater song is on there, and Neko Case, and Sally Timms, and Johnny Dowd, and Steve Earle, and Dave Alvin, and Alejandro Escovedo, and Mark eitzel and the Sundowners..... whew.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-12869841717739116812008-02-06T11:23:00.000-05:002008-02-06T11:23:00.000-05:00Here we dig the Chocolate Drops a lot, saw them a ...Here we dig the Chocolate Drops a lot, saw them a couple weeks ago in fact. Great show.<BR/><BR/>For my $$ no one does "Dreadful Snake" better 'n <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freakwater" REL="nofollow">Freakwater</A> on <I>Dancing Underwater</I>.<BR/><BR/>And as for what Twain thought of Sawyer, this is from chapter three:<BR/><BR/><I>Tom was General of one of these armies, Joe Harper (a bosom friend) General of the other. These two great commanders did not condescend to fight in person -- that being better suited to the still smaller fry -- but sat together on an eminence and conducted the field operations by orders delivered through aides-de-camp. Tom's army won a great victory, after a long and hard-fought battle. Then the dead were counted, prisoners exchanged, the terms of the next disagreement agreed upon, and the day for the necessary battle appointed; after which the armies fell into line and marched away, and Tom turned homeward alone.</I> <BR/><BR/>Astute readers in the immediate wake of the Civil War would have known immediately from this what Tom would have been like as a grownup.Will Dividehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17877416158115540051noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-52426805142418492882008-02-05T23:29:00.000-05:002008-02-05T23:29:00.000-05:00Larry: This started out as a post on Barack Obama'...Larry: This started out as a post on Barack Obama's soul-butter. I'd detected it in Obama's oratory - in a good way -- especially in his victory speech in Iowa. The post, shall we say, went elsewhere. I chickened out. The Martin Luther King thing intimidated me.<BR/><BR/>But I do detect the best of soul-butter rhetoric in Obama's speechifying. The cat inspires the hell out of me.Neddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17079885040758748553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-40027022520500760862008-02-05T23:23:00.000-05:002008-02-05T23:23:00.000-05:00Mitt Romney and Barack Obama both talk soul butter...Mitt Romney and Barack Obama both talk soul butter in all their speeches. So, not always good, not always bad.Larry Joneshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13425250800667058263noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-56545132342735261042008-02-05T17:13:00.000-05:002008-02-05T17:13:00.000-05:00Isn't "Soul Butter" an album by Booker T and the M...Isn't "Soul Butter" an album by Booker T and the MGs? If it's not, it should be.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-80346701507691712912008-02-05T17:11:00.000-05:002008-02-05T17:11:00.000-05:00David:Dig the Chocolate Drops! That's great stuff!...David:<BR/><BR/>Dig the Chocolate Drops! That's great stuff! <BR/><BR/>I'm finding that the farther back I dig, the less and less difference there is between rural white and rural black music. Ralph Peer has a lot to answer for, separating the two markets into Race and Hillybilly genres back in that 1923. It's bullshit, racist distinction. I will say Angry Things.Neddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17079885040758748553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-84746615248223515242008-02-05T17:04:00.000-05:002008-02-05T17:04:00.000-05:00Laws, that's some Murder Ballad... Pretty direct l...Laws, that's some Murder Ballad... Pretty direct language, ain't it...<BR/><BR/>Once, I was asked by <A HREF="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/R._Stevie_Moore" REL="nofollow">R. Stevie Moore</A> to participate in a strange recording project: He wanted to set his answering machine messages to music. He asked me to call with something, leave it on his machine.<BR/><BR/>Earlier I'd had the idea to do a simple little Doc Watson song, "You Get a Line and I'll get a Pole," but convert it, by sheer force of will, into a Heavy Metal Murder Ballad. The lyric couldn't be simpler:<BR/><BR/>You get a line and I'll get a pole, honey<BR/>You get a line and I'll get a pole, babe<BR/>You get a line and I'll get a pole,<BR/>And we'll head on down to the fishing hole<BR/>Honey, baby mine.<BR/><BR/>That could be a creepy tune, right? A-an' what are we gonna <I>do</I> at the fishing hole, my love? <I>Heh-heh... You'll see... Honey.</I><BR/><BR/>So I rung up Stevie, got his machine, and, in my best quiet creepy child-molester voice, started in on the lyric.<BR/><BR/>I did four more iterations of that verse, each getting progressively more hysterical, until the last verse, when I was screaming it. (I was wandering around the orchard while I did this, checking fruits. I must have been a sight.)<BR/><BR/>Stevie never got back to me on that one. Hmmm.Neddiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17079885040758748553noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-3682766804661560502008-02-05T17:03:00.000-05:002008-02-05T17:03:00.000-05:00I need to go back and re-read Huckleberry Finn wit...I need to go back and re-read Huckleberry Finn with adult eyes.<BR/>Country Death Song has long been a favourite of mine, I loves me some Femmes.<BR/>Neddie, have you heard of these guys?<BR/>http://tinyurl.com/2j78sb<BR/>Pretty fun stuff.dwgshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10802983136638036023noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-15205873091272353162008-02-05T16:47:00.000-05:002008-02-05T16:47:00.000-05:00sorry. screwed up the tags.sorry. screwed up the tags.zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10261187.post-55119684074643235092008-02-05T16:40:00.000-05:002008-02-05T16:40:00.000-05:00Compare that to the stark, frightening desperation...Compare that to the stark, frightening desperation that Gordon Gano captured in the Violent Femmes <B>Country Death Song</B>:<BR/><BR/><I>I led her to a hole, a deep black well.<BR/>I said make a wish, make sure and not tell<BR/>Close your eyes dear, and count to seven.<BR/>You know your papa loves you, good children go to heaven.<BR/>You know your papa loves you, good children go to heaven.<BR/><BR/>I gave her a push, I gave her a shove.<BR/>I pushed with all my might, I pushed with all my love.<BR/>I threw my child into a bottomless pit.<BR/>She was screaming as she fell, but I never heard her hit.<BR/>She was screaming as she fell, but I never heard her hit.<BR/><BR/>Chills me ever since I first heard it, just before they released their second album. Hold the soul-butter, please.<BR/><BR/>Gather round boys to this tale that I tell.<BR/>You wanna know how to take a short trip to hell? <BR/>Its guaranteed to get your own place in hell.<BR/>Just take your lovely daughter and push her in the well.<BR/>Take your lovely daughter and throw her in the well.</I>zombie rotten mcdonaldhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10601960953323752278noreply@blogger.com