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04 Jan 09 - 07:13 PM (#2531591) Subject: BS: mother's blood/jfw From: john f weldon Twenty years ago, Jan 5 1989... ...I wrote a song later, a dreary thing... ...well, what the hell, here it is, all true.... Mother's Blood |
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04 Jan 09 - 07:58 PM (#2531642) Subject: RE: BS: mother's blood/jfw From: bobad Good god John, I hope that's not a true event. |
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04 Jan 09 - 08:23 PM (#2531663) Subject: RE: BS: mother's blood/jfw From: john f weldon Yup. 20 years tomorrow. |
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04 Jan 09 - 08:43 PM (#2531673) Subject: RE: BS: mother's blood/jfw From: bobad John, what can I say, I am speechless, I can only hope that you obtained some catharsis by writing the song. |
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05 Jan 09 - 01:04 AM (#2531807) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: Jim Dixon Wow, John. That's gut-wrenching stuff. Have you ever performed it for an audience? I can't imagine it being played on a typical folk show on the radio, or even being sung in a coffeehouse, at least not the kind of coffeehouses I've been to. I'm glad I heard it alone, in the privacy of my home, just me and my computer, so I have time to contemplate it. This song is too good to ignore. I plan to email links to this song to some friends of mine who are antiwar activists (and a couple of them are folk musicians and/or fans as well). At least I know they will appreciate the message. I'll let you know what their reaction is. |
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05 Jan 09 - 08:58 AM (#2531966) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: john f weldon I recorded it soon after the event, in 89, but it's only been played for a dozen people in between. Most of my work is pretty light-hearted, and I have no desire to traumatize anyone. But after 20 years, I decided to post it. Some of the references have grown a little archaic. Northern Ireland is quieter these days, Beirut gets better or worse from time to time. But, there's always somewhere. |
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06 Jan 09 - 11:13 AM (#2532904) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: bobad refresh for a powerful song |
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06 Jan 09 - 11:19 AM (#2532911) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: Sleepy Rosie When I listened to this before, I found it a greatly affecting and intimately expressed personal tale. But although I know it sounds foolish, or even a bit cowardly, didn't really know exactly what to say that wouldn't sound trite at the time... |
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06 Jan 09 - 08:11 PM (#2533613) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: john f weldon By the way, I started this thread with a BS. Not bullshit, it's all true, but I wanted to be down below the line with the philosophers, theologians, and wherever the action is, not above the line with the banjo tunings. I was over-ruled. Music, okay. Technically correct, I suppose. But let me have a day down there, too! |
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06 Jan 09 - 11:29 PM (#2533702) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: topical tom A very powerful song, John . I just shouldn't have listened to it just before going to bed! How sad, yet how real! |
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13 Jan 09 - 10:57 PM (#2539316) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: GUEST,One of the JoeClones Refresh. Reclassified as "BS" at the songwriter's request--although I am dismayed to see the music section dismissed as "banjo tunings." |
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14 Jan 09 - 12:02 AM (#2539339) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: Neil D Remarkable that you were able to craft something so contemplative out of such a deep, personal tragedy. So sorry for your loss. Neil |
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14 Jan 09 - 01:02 AM (#2539356) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: open mike OH HOW TRAGIC |
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14 Jan 09 - 08:33 AM (#2539555) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: GUEST,Bee Guest above was me with no cookie, sorry. |
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14 Jan 09 - 10:07 AM (#2539619) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: john f weldon Sorry, Joe Clones, I was being snarky. I apologize. But, for whatever reason, I notice that when I post things below the line they get a lot more reaction than above, whether they be musical or not. |
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14 Jan 09 - 10:49 AM (#2539657) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: GUEST,One of the JoeClones It's not your snarkiness that dismays me; it's my own suspicion that you might be right. |
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09 Apr 09 - 04:33 PM (#2608265) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: john f weldon I wouldn't revive this thread, except for a weird co-incidence. Totally unrelated, I'm sure, but in the second picture, behind the robot, that's the house of the song. weird coincidence... |
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09 Apr 09 - 04:42 PM (#2608271) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: meself Speechless ... Thank you, John. |
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09 Apr 09 - 04:44 PM (#2608272) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: bobad "Something is happening here but we don't know what it is....." |
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09 Apr 09 - 05:11 PM (#2608282) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: Beer I missed this thread first time around. It leaves one speechless, but yet thinking. Adrien |
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09 Apr 09 - 06:57 PM (#2608333) Subject: RE: mother's blood/jfw From: Beer Watched the news this evening. Someone was not fooling around as the bomb squad found the package to be very real. Adrien |