Posted on 11/03/2023 11:30:27 PM PDT by Ozguy1945
The thing I love about the way the late Canadian-born Robbie Robertson played guitar is the way that he could pluck one note out of the universe and let it sit there like an image of God. From "Who Do You Love" through "Leopard Skin Pillbox Hat" and "This Wheel’s On Fire" to one of my personal favourites in "Ophelia", the man never wasted a note. And he wrote glorious songs.
Such music is a wonderful medicine for much modern American social malaise (which is a state of robust health compared to some of Trudeau’s Canadian crap).
Robertson himself said about the malaise:
“There’s a thing that has happened in the U.S. where the spirit has been beaten so badly and so you feel no unity in the voice of the country.”
That wasn’t true when Jaime Royal Robertson took us closer to heaven in song.
God Bless Music
Praise The Lord
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... and pass the ammunition
Story I liked about him.
While living in the woodsy area of Woodstock he was in his car speeding a little and a cop pulled him over. Robertson was slender, had his black suit and black hat on, and wire rimmed glasses and had a scruffy beard.
The cop looked him over, smiled and said “Rabbi, I’m not going to give you a ticket but please watch your speed.”
Ha! And there’s no compelling reason to correct the cop!
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