I have been a big Tracy Nelson fan for a long time, ever since I heard her sing in the Firehouse in Berkeley. The whole band was good. They ranged from Ray Charles to Tracy doing "Mother Earth." (Posted below). I also saw her later in a country music bar in L.A. When I went up to her to tell her how great I thought she was, she brushed me off as if I were trying to pick her up. I wasn’t. I had a girlfriend at home who didn’t want to go to a sawdust country joint.
Let's talk music, no genre boundaries
This is an offshoot of the jazz thread. I and others found that we could not talk about jazz without discussing other musical genres, as well as the philosophy of music. So, this is a thread in which people can suggest good music of all genres, and spout off your feelings about music itself.
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Kenneth Rexroth on poetic meaning from chatgbt: Rexroth believed that poetry should not be reduced to a paraphrasable meaning. In his words:
To Rexroth, a poem isn't about something—it is something. It's a moment of awareness, a lived emotional or intellectual reality. |
That’s too bad. . . for both of you. I guess it’s indicative of what she had to deal with as a female performer and the less-than-ideal strategies she developed in an attempt to protect herself.
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It is the same thing in natural science if we study Goethe... It is the same in mathematics which need our act of interpretation at the end... As illustrated by Godel famous alternative : " (1) the human mind is not a Turing machine or For Godel meaning is an embodied symbolic form and we are more than machine...
more : «Furthermore, Godel consideres that there must be a nonmechanical plan to
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