the_blues jane listening all night while i painted the dresser. all the blues masters wailing their guitars off like some musical catharsis that decrescendos into the final chord. & then i finish painting. & here i am, still bluesing away {a stones song here & there} still i definitely have the blues. 080501 ... unhinged most of the songs i've ever been able to write good old_fashioned back porch foot stomping blues martyr spilled milk blues hop the fence easy rider bipolar_boys_with_guns the ep is slowly expanding into an lp 080501 ... unhinged when people ask me what my music sounds like i inevitably have to say john lee hooker meets jeff_buckley 080501 ... tilt funny. because whenever I feel a case of the blues coming on... it's always to red I come, not blue at all. 080502 ... lux i cried, and cried, and cried, my baby, until i was out of tears. and when i felt the blues again i used some salt so that i might weep again. 150501 ... epitome of incomprehensibility Planning out a set of songs, I realize at least three of them include some kind of twelve-bar blues part. I didn't think that would be a common thread. Christian_Martyr I_Have_No_Symphony Twelve_Tone_Blues 220723 ... e_o_i Ah, you had "martyr" before, and the words are better. Red_thread ties us all. I'm sorry I didn't do enough to mend it. 220723 ... raze some of the ones i've written here aren't really blues songs at all. but what good's a template if you can't twist it out of shape to suit your needs? blues_song_for_my_bladder midbrain_blues blues_for_spring 220724 ... e_o_i Thanks, raze! The bladder one made me laugh, the middle one caused marvel at your seamless integration of words from different spheres, and the spring one sprung forth surreally dreamlike, which I dig like I'm planting imaginary vegetables. 220730 what's it to you? who go blather from