And earlier in
the night, I listened to an old Yazoo title:
St. Louis Blues (1929-1935): The Depression, which has some amazing, moving cuts from Henry Townsend, Charley Jordan, Georgia Boyd, Peetie Wheatstraw, and Hi Henry Brown. Such pure, raw sounds are timeless, and are perhaps especially meaningful today.
Kurt Vonnegut had this to say:
During the Great Depression, African-American citizens were heard to say this, along with a lot of other stuff, of course: "Things are so bad white folks got to raise their own kids."
It made me laugh. Kurt Vonnegut knew how to tell a joke. And had I listened to anything else last night, I'm sure he would have had something funny to say about it, too.
