Positive tunes for troubled times

[KLAX]

The top link is Harlan Lattimore & His Connie's Inn Orchestra's 1932 cover recording of "Reefer Man." It's my favorite version of this great song. Cab Calloway recorded the original, also in 1932, however, amazingly, I prefer the cover. I say amazingly because I loves me some Cab Calloway. The song was also covered by Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, imo a lame-ass modern recording of a great marijuana song. If you need to hear it, I'm sure you can find it.

I am confident all of us here are intimately familiar with the personage in question in this song. Lyrics are be the great Andy Razof.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ExqOKi-Gutw

This is Cab's original -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=svoSSdsNhtA

[BU2B]

Hey you guys … don’t know if you know - but have a look at this:

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[KLAX]

Thank you, BU2B, for that bit of info. Now I just have to remember. HA!

[golfnrl]

Samantha Fish is the bomb. Been trying to catch one of her shows for a while now. Her new record is fabulous.

[BU2B]

For Mary -

✌️

[Puglover1]

I have to get growing. My pain strain, WT; Critical Mass cbd; White Widow. I can't afford the medicine, street or dispo which have been coming down & having deals. RSO or more FECO is desired end product, quick sublingual dosing w/o etoh. Got the room almost ready, I won't work in a cluttered area. Storing things under the bed until needed. Using the soil I am I can't mess up too much, I even bought a case of tall bottles of Core water. I's not pH perfect but a drip of molasses would be better than me messing up, on a bad day. I'll need to toss old nutes, get something new. I want to hang out there by myself with the doors closed, like when I was in trim jail. Listen to Spotify. I've had a stressful summer into fall. Pugs started getting sick in late August, they're on food costing me $8/day. Over 3 weeks for specialist's appt, their ER had to close last Sunday too many criticals; Two university vet ERs couldn't guarantee being seen, swamped. I have two weeks to call them, try to save $ I don't have, find someone to go with, drive since one pug Hates the car. Once they're stable I'm going into hiding. Or QWET some Mag popcorn that's been freezer ready jarred for a while, practice, it's been a while. Oh, the car is sounding different, think it's the muffler on driver's side. There are two tail pipes so two mufflers - amirite? Yes, I have been buying a lotto ticket online for the mega jackpots. Shalom.

[changeofpace2014]

Hope it allowed on this thread...Last night the wife and I were invited to see (Forever Seger) in Meaford ontario...This was the best show I have seen...Really..Here is youtube link..sorry can not post last nights video (quite a few) actually.. I know it is not Seger but Dam this was a f...fabulous show!! If any of you live in or around the Great lake region keep there show is truly a flash back to Real Rock N Roll.. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F1Zvclxmzcw

[Going2fast]

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=rtDAK7Umk7A

[Bowhunterwoody]

Some of the funniest stuff out there!

[BU2B]

We build these walls inside ourselves
We get afraid to ask for help
'Cause in the past, the help just hasn't healed your soul
You see this person in the mirror
Sometimes we wish that it was clearer
Sometimes we wish that we just couldn't see at all
We are who we are
We build and we break
We rise and we fall
We give and we take
We love without a reason
We smile through the pain
And we've been here before, and we're coming again
Oh god, we fall like rain
We always fall like rain
You see the life we're leading now
The one you cannot live without
It's connected to the moon and the stars
We are the children of the light
Going bravely into night
We fighting daily in this heavenly war
And we are who we are
We build and we break
We rise and we fall
We give and we take
We love without a reason
We smile through the pain
And we've been here before, and we're coming again
Oh god, we fall like rain
We see us fall like rain
We are the future and the past
We are the good and we're the bad
We are the prophet and the preacher in one
We are the blessing and the curse
We are the blessed and the worst
We get a chance to deserve our life before we're gone
And we are who we are
We build and we break
We rise and we fall
We give and we take
We love without a reason
We smile through the pain
And we've been here before, and we're coming again
Oh god, we fall like rain
I see us fall like rain
We always fall like rain
I see us fall like rain

[BU2B]

What I know … is that I don’t know

[Going2fast]

I know you don't dig country brother but this guy is phenomenal.

https://youtu.be/lhMDnufe1fw

[Franklin]

Probably the most pro-psychedelic country song I've ever heard: https://youtu.be/6gBV-Nzq7Pg

I've seen Jesus play with flames
In a lake of fire that I was standing in
Met the devil in Seattle
And spent nine months inside the lions den
Met Buddha yet another time
And he showed me a glowing light within
But I swear that God is there
Every time I glare into the eyes of my best friend
Says my son, "It's all been done
And someday you're gonna wake up old and gray
So go and try to have some fun
Showing warmth to everyone
You meet and greet and cheat along the way"

There's a gateway in our minds
That leads somewhere out there, far beyond this plane
Where reptile aliens made of light
Cut you open and pull out all your pain
Tell me how you make illegal
Something that we all make in our brain
Some say you might go crazy
But then again, it might make you go sane

Every time I take a look
Inside that old and fabled book
I'm blinded and reminded of
The pain caused by some old man in the sky
Marijuana, LSD
Psilocybin, and DMT
They all changed the way I see
But love's the only thing that ever saved my life

So don't waste your mind on nursery rhymes
Or fairy tales of blood and wine
It's turtles all the way down the line
So to each their own 'til we go home
To other realms our souls must roam
To and through the myth that we all call space and time

[BU2B]

Every time I take a look
Inside that old and fabled book
I'm blinded and reminded of
The pain caused by some old man in the sky
Marijuana, LSD
Psilocybin, and DMT
They all changed the way I see
But love's the only thing that ever saved my life

So don't waste your mind on nursery rhymes
Or fairy tales of blood and wine
It's turtles all the way down the line
So to each their own 'til we go home
To other realms our souls must roam
To and through the myth that we all call space and time

And that is why I say “the words of the prophets are written on the subway walls…”. If that ain’t scripture - nothing is!

[Mr.furley]

Can't do County but Iv got Spurs that jingle jangle jingle.

[BU2B]

ROTFLMFAO I love it! DONT HATE ME CAUSE IM BEAUTIFUL!

[alltatup]

David Bowie is immortal.... Keep your 'lectric eye on me, babe...

https://youtu.be/BL9Aur-G1yc

[BU2B]

I will never forget - David had just died, I was in hospital emergency and lost it. The Rebel Rebel was gone and all I kept seeing in my head was -> https://youtu.be/y-JqH1M4Ya8 My deep admiration for the man who did what couldn’t be done over and over again. AND did it with style!

[alltatup]

BU2B BlackStar was an extraordinary composition and meditation on death, love and life. I love it. I have such profound admiration for Bowie, even more than for Dylan. He was such a good human.

[PRIMO]

Christine McVie Always loved that girl. R.I.P

[BU2B]

Due to the car commercial I just recently watched a live performance of EVERYWHERE and thought how good she looked. 🥺

[SoOrbudgal]

I'm a huge fan and have many happy memories of her with Fleetwood Mac

[BU2B]

Thanks Christine - You WILL be with us EVERYWHERE!

[SoOrbudgal]

She was a inspiration to many a young woman in the music industry. I just loved her song writing