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Sweet home where?! Blues greats and where they came from (contribute to the interactive map)

I put together an interactive mind map of (most) all the Blues Greats and where they came from. I used mindmeister's web app to do so.

The app is completely customisable for anyone that wants to add names/states to it, change wrong information, add links, pictures, comments to a particular branch or name, etc. I also created one branch just for the best of the best of the "sidemen". I know this is not complete, so be my guest and have at it.

I got the idea to throw this together after reading the introduction to Jas Obrecht's book, "Rollin' and Tumblin': The Postwar Blues Guitarists". Obrecht's book is collection of interviews with the postwar greats. It is a treat to hear them talk in their own words about their own stories. I am just about to rip into the first chapter.

You can grab and move the map within the frame it is presented in, or you can open that map up to edit and add to it. See the image of the tool bar below. You can (a) click the pencil icon and edit in this frame or you can (b) click the screen enlarge icon on the far right and the map will open up in a new window.

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If you do choose to add/edit, I suggest you open the map in a new tab. You will have access to the sidebar with full controls. Plus, it will be much easier to contribute with the full map.

Interactive Map: The Blues Greats and where they came from

I just finished Ted Gioia's book on prewar blues, "Delta Blues". The latter was an excellent narrative about the history of the Delta Blues and all those who made it so. If you are interested in reading it, this review from the NYT may help.

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"Some are building monuments and others are jotting down notes..."

"Some are building monuments and others are jotting down notes...((Tags: mind map, blog posts, Bob Dylan, London, Cafe, mobile, Twitter, Simply Tweet))

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Update: This is a note for all you twitter/posterous users.

I started using a new Twitter client on my iPhone: Simply Tweet. Simply Tweet works well with Posterous (The 6149's blogging platform). It allows you to post long tweets to Twitter that are simultaneously posted on your Posterous blog. The Tweet ends up being the title of the post as well as appears in the body text.

In my first post, I used email subject syntax to add tags to the post on posterous. The tags showed up as I wanted them too, but they also showed up in the body text (see above). I didn't want that.

SImply Tweet responded to a tweet I made about this and gave me a solution...within 5 minutes of my posting this. Here is what they said:

@Judd6149 ah. So you want to set Posterous tags? Use hashtags. #SimplyTweet converts hashtags to Posterous tags automatically so you don't need to use the email subject syntax. The advantage is if they appear early enough, they are included as hashtags in the tweet text.

That solves that. Great customer service from @simplytweet. Give them a try if you need a (new) mobile twitter client.

And now back to our regularly scheduled program...

The picture in this post was taken at a cafe around the corner from where I am staying in South Kensington, London. I was on the way home from the gym and decided to stop off for a double-espresso and some early morning sunshine inspiration.

I mapped out a flew blog posts ideas for The 6149 (do you think my blog knows I am talking about it in the third person?). When I was doing this, I started singing the lyric that is the title to this post. It is from Bob Dylan's "The Mighty Quinn". It is off his second volume of "Greatest Hits".

Here is some commentary from The Bob from his "Chronicles" book:

Dylan in his autobiography Chronicles Volume One (published 2004), makes further reference to the song: "On the way back to the house I passed the local movie theater on Prytania Street, where The Mighty Quinn (film) was showing. Years earlier I had written a song called "The Mighty Quinn" which was a hit in England, and I wondered what the movie was about. Eventually I'd sneak off and go there to see it. It was a mystery, suspense, Jamaican thriller with Denzel Washington as the Mighty Xavier Quinn a detective who solves crimes. Funny, that's just the way I imagined him when I wrote the song The Mighty Quinn, Denzel Washington"

Indeed, Bob. Indeed.

Tune Tags

As mentioned in a 6149 post yesterday, I am introducing Tune Tags. I have dropped in a Tune Tag playlist here for you to put your ears on. This one is chock full of different versions of "The Mighty Quinn".

The Bob version is really from sessions in the basement of Big Pink with the band. I love the lazy, slurry, jangle-y feel to this one.
The Dead's version is a reminder of how much fun it was to go to their shows and anticipate what cover they were going to play. Great times at those shows (from what I can recall...I think everyone did dose when Quinn showed up.
The Hollies? Yes, the Hollies did a folksy version of this, too. Can you hear Gram Nash in there...?
Speaking of cover tunes...the curators of the cover tune, Phish do their best Dead doing Bob.
I had to include Manfred Mann, right? There version is the widely know version. Smart move covering Bob & Bruce.

Note: Apologies to @wolfgangsvault. Mate, I'll get the Tune Tags up higher in the post next time (heh heh)

The Goods

Here is another new feature I am going to use on The 6149. The Goods is the section where I will add links that reference the post contents. It will be links, images, footers, etc. I'll give this a go and see how it works in conjunction with Tune Tags. Let me know if it is "Too Much Monkey Business".

Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits Vol. 2 (personally, I think this is his best 'collection" of the dozens out there)
Full Lyrics to "The Mighty Quinn"
Wikipedia page on the story behind "The Mighty Quinn"

p.s. another technical note: I did not add the Tune Tag playlist via Simply Tweet. I did it in the editing of the post.

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