I spent my most interesting times in Berlin (or New York), in big cities ie. But never the world of peasants has stopped to have influence in me. The daughter of a carpenter in the countryside took me (aged two) from a children’s home in a big city (Wuppertal). 20 years later I put the residence of my family into this rural idyll. My daughters (now in Berlin and Munich) learned to ride horses there – as my wife and me. I have always understood the country life as a kind of resistance to the fault of city life. Perhaps the simplicity of my music (and my naive paintings) can be understood from this attitude.
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Beautiful music!!!
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I consider myself lucky to have known and enjoyed farm life as a child, don’t you feel the same?
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me, playing my Dobro with horses in my background near the carpenter’s house (Uebelguenn his name) about whom I told above …
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I don’t like the picture (guess why 😉 ) but I like the video and song…..Child in a city, the summer in my peasant family, now in a small town not far from fields. I love both big cities and nature
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Perfect place and performance and I loved the audience participation too! 🙂
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I see NOTHING naive in your painting!
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dear Gilly,
I’m sooo naive like grandma Moses (google)
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What’s that quote “you can take the girl out of the city, but you can’t take the city out of the girl”? Maybe it applies to you with the countryside, Frizz. 🙂
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“you can take a man
out of the country,
but you can’t take the country
out of the man”!
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beautiful setting for your playing…and the horse seemed to have a comment for you!
The painting is very nice!
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