TSM 202 — When the sun shines bright, then sinks low

Carrying of the water, stoking of the stove, sweeping up the cinders, mending of the clothes. Cooking up the dinner, helping kids with sums; then telling bedtime stories, of faeries and Tom Thumbs, I tuck wee ones into dreams in trundle beds under wool. Undone it comes, one plait at a time, in warm gaslight….

Women Music March 2022 – Day 12 – Phoebe Snow

Phoebe Snow Phoebe Snow (born Phoebe Ann Laub; b. 7/17/50 – d. 4/26/11) was born in New York City and raised in a musical household in which Delta blues, Broadway show tunes, Dixieland jazz, classical music, and folk music recordings were played around the clock. Her father, Merrill Laub, an exterminator by trade, had an…

Women Music March 2022 – Day 10 – Tina Turner

Tina Turner 2009 50th Anniversary Tour.  Photo by Philip Spittle Tina Turner (born Anna Mae Bullock; November 26, 1939) is an American-born Swiss singer, songwriter and actress. Widely referred to as the “Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll”, she rose to prominence as the lead singer of the Ike & Tina Turner Revue before launching a…

Women Music March 2022 – Day 9 – Odetta

Odetta Odetta Holmes (b. 12/31/30 – d. 12/2/08,) known as Odetta, was an American singer, actress, guitarist, lyricist, and a civil and human rights activist, often referred to as “The Voice of the Civil Rights Movement“. Her musical repertoire consisted largely of American folk music, blues, jazz, and spirituals. An important figure in the American…

Women Music March 2022 – Day 8 – Indigo Girls

Indigo Girls, image from The Times Free Press Just an FYI, I am suspending The Second British Music Invasion Series until Women’s Music March is over. It will be re-commencing on Tuesday, April 5. Thank you for your patience. Now on to the Incredible Indigo Girls! Indigo Girls are an American folk rock music duo…

dVerse — Quadrille 147 (2) — Is that you, Mo-Dean?

At first it seemed to be a dream; a blinding eye coiffed in black. My first thought: they’re back. Stalked peer of metallic goon is more than holo in my sleep as a scream begins to creep up the back of my paralyzed throat. This is my second offering for Bjorn’s prompt word for dVerse…