JACOB CLYDE: News

I thought I was a gone cat
I thought I was bon fire hot

I thought I was real cool cat,
then I thought I was bon fire hot

I wanted candy apple red,
but burnt sienna is what I got

-from NO STRANGER TO SAPPHIRE (c) 2008 Randall W. Noom


A man who did crossword puzzles
Every day of his life
Passed away one afternoon
in the presence of his wife

He was buried 6 down
and 4 across
He never said one cross word
It was such a loss

Life is strange, at least that's what they say
And I'm not sure that it happened, or that it happened just that way.

-from NOT SURE IT HAPPENED (c) 2008 Randall W. Noom


You're walkin' all around with a frown on your face,
You wear that frown all over the place

It was a big drag, a real bad scene,
But you have to step back, if you know what I mean

You can't go around like that
You can't go around like that, Jack

from CAN'T GO ROUND LIKE THAT (c) 2008 Randall W. Noom


*Note: The JACOB CLYDE BLUES LYRIC SONGBOOK will soon be available.

Cincinnati born Mamie Smith was the first black woman to sing the blues. This is how it happened: Sophie Tucker had failed to show up for a scheduled recording session when Harlem songwriter Perry Bradford brought Mamie into the Okeh studios, hoping to get some songs heard. The studio did consent to letting Smith, who was already a star of Harlem's club-and-theatre scene, fill in. Her versions of Tucker's numbers sold well enough that she was later able to record a funkier Bradford number the following year. "Crazy Blues" ended up selling 75, 000 copies in the first month of its 1920 release!

New to me: George Washington Carver enrolled in a small college in Iowa as an art student and went on to represent his school with one of his paintings at the Chicago World's Fair. He was later encouraged to pursue his interest in science.

The cowboy must...
Never go back on his word
Be gentle with children, the elderly and animals
Not advocate or possess racially or religiously intolerant ideas
Help people in distress
Be a good worker
Be a patriot
-Gene Autry's Cowboy Code

Elvis is still the highest paid not-living celebrity.
The four runners up are:
2.) Charles M. Schulotz
3.) 28 year old Australian actor Heath Ledger
4.) Albert Einstein
5.) TV producer Aaron Spelling

FOR THOSE OUT OF WORK
The old saying still holds true: there's no money in poetry, but then again there's no poetry in money, either.

If I had my life to live over, I'd try to make more mistakes next time, I would relax, I would limber up, I would be crazier than I've been on this trip. I would take more chances, I would take more trips, I would scale more mountains...
-82 year old, looking back

Music gave sorrow an outlet. The need and the talent gave expression to sorrow, and in time, the sorrow allowed the intrusion of moments of joy.
-Richard Donovan

What is this load I carry out of yesterday?
What are the bygones of dreams, moans, shadows?
What jargons, what gibberish, must I yet unlearn?
-Carl Sandburg, from Timesweep

The world's foremost cellist, Pablo Casals, was asked when he was eighty-three years old why he still practiced four and five hours a day. Casals answered, "Because I think I am making progress."

An adventure is only an inconvenience, rightly considered.
-Chesterton

Record albums were a major source of musical inspiration for me. Even though my Dad, both grandfathers, my two brothers, uncles, and cousins all played music I was introduced to the wide world of various genres of music through records. Through the years I have enjoyed and have been influenced by hundreds upon hundreds of musical artists by way of the 33 1/3 RPM LP record.
For those who still listen to or collect record albums there's a record store up in Michigan you need to check out. The Corner Record Shop actually has two stores- one in Grandville: 3562 Chicago Drive, Grandville, MI 49418, and one in Kalamazoo: 1710 W. Main St. (In Tiffany's Plaza) in Kalamazoo. These guys have all kinds of great stuff! For new and used vynal, CDs, DVDs call the Corner Shop: (616) 531-6578 in Grandville and 381-0218 in Kalamazoo.

The BLUES GUITAR DELUXE CD won the 2004 Jammie Award for Best Local Blues Album and has recieved much acclaim and notice.

4 bottles for a True-Blues Indie release that will appeal to both Blues Guitar fans and Southern/Texas aficionados.
-Andy Grigg, Editor- Real Blues Magazine

The songs are well performed and the guitar work is excellent. Pop music fans used to more variety might grow tired of the blues format, but hard core blues fans will want to check this out- and check out Jacob when he plays live.
-Kristy hanson, Music Revue Magazine

Almost without exception, blue refers to the domain of abstraction and immateriality.
-Wassily Kandinsky

There are connoisseurs of blue just as there are connoisseurs of wine.
-Collette

Blue is the only color which maintains its own character in all its tones.
-Raoul Dufy

Other sources add such things as:
*Blue is one of the most difficult colors to produce from natural materials.
*It has been most commonly associated with spirituality, wisdom, and the afterlife.
*Since blue is a retreating color, it is the color of deliberation, and introspection.

Blue, the age-old friend, is devoted and true. It is the color of the heavens and the seas. Blue represents the traits of knoweldge and innocence and conveys a sense of peace, relaxation, and stillness. It is halfway between black and white, giving it equilibrium and poise. Blue is darkness made visable.
-from the book "Color Magic for Quilter's" by Ann Seely and Joyce Stewart