NC Music, NE-AL Evening

11/17/2018

Steve and Kelly (son and daughter-in-love) have backyard or house concerts from time to time. Last night they had the best one yet. A group of four men, two of them been together since they were pretty young, now 20+ years later teaming up with two other great musicians and producing an extremely enjoyable sound. Everything from Rhythm & Blues to Hank Williams to even an old Irving Berlin number.

It has been a long time since I’ve been “into” a concert, house or concert hall, as much as I was The LazyBirds from Asheville, NC.

They were so very enjoyable. And “Hey! All you Birmingham area friends, if you’re not too busy tonight go catch these terrific musicians at Brennan’s Irish Pub! 1108 20th St., South at 8pm.”

You’ll find some great food and you’ll enjoy the music, I guarantee it! You’ll hear a little of a lot of styles, even a little about the Lord Jesus Christ, and covering artists from the 50s to songs they write. 

I heard a song I had first listened to on the rhythm & blues programming in the late 50s on WLAC, Nashville, TN. Also, they do a little known Roger Miller song called “Where Have All The Average People Gone?” If you don’t like that one, let’s check to see if you’re breathing! If you go to see them, say hello to Jay and James T, the ones together for so long—who do most of the singing—tell them you read it on the Elder’ blog.

So, any SIMH this morning is second to all they sang last night.

The idiocy of the election re-count and re-think and cry-till-you-win sympathy attitude of these offices still not declared won/lost is wearing me out. Imagine losing an election, then saying maybe people have now changed their minds and will vote for me if we can just get a do-over! Yes, one did advocate that. Imagine an election official insisting on a recount, but her person lost by 700 more votes than previous counting, so even though the recount was over for her precinct, she didn’t turn it in on time, knowing the additional votes would help the wrong person. Imagine the only hope left for another was a cache of  about 7000 ballots, which if he got all 7000 of them, he would still lose by a larger than 7000 margin, and yet he will not concede!

What kind of people are these running for office? Where is common sense? And where are hard and fast election rules? As Daniel the prophet said, “..many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.” The running to and fro isn’t helping. Has it helped for knowledge to be increased or has it hampered? Didn’t help.

But, upward to thinking about Thanksgiving (the holiday) and thanksgiving (the practice). Our Apostle Paul wrote, “In all things give thanks, and with prayer and supplication, let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God that passeth all understanding shall keep your heart and mind through Christ Jesus.” Let’s concentrate on that admonition and that promise for the next 6 days, until Thursday night. We may be pleasantly surprised at how we thank and think and Who we thank for it.

Thanks for reading, the Elder