During junior high school in Arkansas, I was required by law or tradition to take two years of square-dancing lessons as part of our physical education curriculum. We were assigned a partner to dance with for the entire school year. The first year, my partner was pregnant. This was not entirely unusual.
I have to do this: Chris, you’re not responsible for your dance partner’s pregnancy, are you? I just couldn’t stand that nobody asked that question. It was Arkansas. I understand.
It's funny, what sticks in your head over time. The way Bob Marley sings "Sherriff John Brown," which Clapton pretty much repeats, is in mine permanently. I didn't at first peg the Dylan song because he names John Brown at the beginning of the song and not thereafter. The Staple Singers version is on a playlist I listen to a lot. I remember the scene between mother and injured son at the train station very clearly, but few individual lines surface from the unconscious beyond the sarcasm of the "good old-fashioned war." My Dad's favorite song was "Moon River"; at the end of his life, though he'd forgotten the rest, would remember "my huckleberry friend" and sing those three words when we'd sing it to him. All of which strays far from making chairs, I know.
It's why there are so many Brown's, Smith's, Johnson's, etc. Originally they changed their true names to common one's so that the tax collectors could not tell one from another. It might be another reason why John Brown never tried to make two chairs the same, so you don't know for sure he was the one who made them.
I feel the same way about naming people and other animals, such as pets. Names should be revealed, not forced.
I still play that Nora Brown 10” record to everyone who comes to the house.
I have to do this: Chris, you’re not responsible for your dance partner’s pregnancy, are you? I just couldn’t stand that nobody asked that question. It was Arkansas. I understand.
Thanks for the link to Nora Brown playing the banjo. She has a brand new fan.
Why is chairmaker John Brown on that Wikipedia list? Someone needs to fix that.
Go for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Writing_better_articles
Nora Brown is fantastic and it seems I appreciate your musical taste as well as tastes in woodworking.
Maybe prominent, more than famous— the other John Browns— the only one I'd heard of before, in the Wikipedia list, was from I Shot the Sherriff!
The fictional John Browns are legion.
It's funny, what sticks in your head over time. The way Bob Marley sings "Sherriff John Brown," which Clapton pretty much repeats, is in mine permanently. I didn't at first peg the Dylan song because he names John Brown at the beginning of the song and not thereafter. The Staple Singers version is on a playlist I listen to a lot. I remember the scene between mother and injured son at the train station very clearly, but few individual lines surface from the unconscious beyond the sarcasm of the "good old-fashioned war." My Dad's favorite song was "Moon River"; at the end of his life, though he'd forgotten the rest, would remember "my huckleberry friend" and sing those three words when we'd sing it to him. All of which strays far from making chairs, I know.
I love the sound of the old style banjo. Definitely makes one sit up and notice.
I love the sound of the old style banjo. Definitely makes one sit up and notice.
It's why there are so many Brown's, Smith's, Johnson's, etc. Originally they changed their true names to common one's so that the tax collectors could not tell one from another. It might be another reason why John Brown never tried to make two chairs the same, so you don't know for sure he was the one who made them.