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Bliss Doubt

Bliss Doubt

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Clouds
-Loeffler, Laffont, Fays - live at Gypsy Nights Music Festival, Paris

A Django Reinhardt tune that has been covered by hundreds of artists around the world. It reminds me of lying in the grass on a summer day, looking up at the clouds, watching them move and change.

 
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Jimi

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Good afternoon Family :wave:
It turned winter here again, no shorts and no shirt today, or tomorrow. I let the little girl talk me into plantin 4 tomatoes this early so hadta cover them last night, crazy weather:crazy:
I hope everyone is well and the day is treatin everyone well:)

May be an image of 1 person and text that says 'Life needs more slow dances in the kitchen.'



May be a doodle of dog and text that says 'Some people will never understand how much someone can love a dog, but that's okay the dog knows..'
 
Bliss Doubt

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Jimi said:
That is a great song to just kick back and relax, thank you for sharing :)
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I get very emotional about Cuban music. The rhythmic underpinning of that piece makes me cry a little bit when I hear it.

Everywhere I've traveled, people always expressed the idea that Fidel Castro wanted good things for the people of Cuba, but I don't know anymore. Not every successful person in Cuba was a wealthy plantation owner that paid low wages to poor workers. Cuba had the beauty that brought tourism. Cuba had lawyers, doctors, restauranteurs, dress makers, hotel owners, car mechanics, anything you can think of, but anybody who did well was confused with the oppressors, and so people were chased off their family farms and businesses at gunpoint, or were tied up and shot, or thrown in prison and forgotten.

People starved under Castro's regime. It was the musicians who stayed, who didn't escape to Miami or New Orleans, who were the brave ones, who continued to pioneer one of the most unique bodies of music ever known, with no reason to hope they would become rich and famous.

Later in his life Rubén González lost his piano to wood worm. He did live to an old age. He was a great talent, a composer and a virtuoso pianist.

Now I gotta go find another song so I can play the game.
 
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