So, here it is - Super Saturday - the pubs (well some of them) and the barbers (well some of them) are open so I headed down town for a long awaited beer.
A pint of Timothy Taylor's Landlord found me sitting outside Jarrow's Albion Gin and Ale House on an unseasonably cold American Independence Day. A socially distanced drinker asked if he had to go inside to smoke whilst another, having been told he must go in by the front door as it was a one-way system said, "just like Sunderland".*
Still, once I got settled, I took a mouthful of this fine ale and and perused the July issue of DownBeat.
As ever, it was full of poignant comments and observations - too many for our Bebop Spoken There archive.
Jay Sweet (on grants): "They each receive between $300 and $1000. It's like passing out Band-Aids on the battlefield."
... Bela Fleck and Abigail Washburn - married banjo players ... (Lance: imagine living next door!).
Lisa Mezzacappa: "What venues will be able to afford to have live music after this? ... Who will be threatened with homelessness and hunger? - and how will we help them?"
Dezron Douglas: "Twelve hundred dollars - that might be someone's mortgage payment in Topeka, Kansas or Cheyenne, Wyoming, or maybe Richmond, Virginia, but that's a third of someone's mortgage in New York City."
There's a whole lot more ... now, let me see, who's streaming tonight?
Lance
PS: Had a haircut (Number one all over!)
* Sunderland's one-way system is renowned for its ability to get drivers from A to B via X,Y and Z!
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