Tuesday’s A to Z challenge: “j”
Event Type: General Blogging
Start Date: Tuesdays, recurring weekly
Description: Every Tuesday I offer the “A to Z challenge”, walking step by step through the alphabet.
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Last week we had the “tagged i”-challenge, so this week we’ll create a new turn with “j” – I’m sure you’ll also find a photo, a story or a music title tagged with “j”! Feel free to add in the comments below the link to your personal interpretation of the letter “j”!!! Myself I’ll focus on “John Henry”:
John Henry
Let me sing the ballad from JOHN HENRY (thanks to Jeff Burns from Brooklyn, he added his 5-string claw hammer banjo to my vocals, kazoo and guitar).
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/bass-kazoo-zoom
a link to my music website:
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I have Jurassic Park for today! And an instrumental for you! Enjoy! =)
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I didn’t know this wonderful music before – the sound of the instrument: great! I like the musician’s concentration! for sure needed by the flying dinosaurs during flight avoiding crashes, making good touch downs; P.S.: I read today in the German news magazine DER SPIEGEL, that 40% of US citizens do not know, that human beings are followers of animals, developed before – is that possible, that creationism has such a power of blocking information? And no Jurassic park project makes it better?
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Frizz, your singing is terrific. Your whole wikiloops project is working great. Here’s another John Henry. http://bumbastories.wordpress.com/2013/02/16/john-henry-4/
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hi Stephen, John Henry nowadays could be seen as a statement about job losses – by increasing faster and faster development of technologies: the end of the line for many photographers, printers, book writers, journalists, musicians etc.
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What about typists, stenographers, craftsmen, longshoremen, and farmers? Not to mention steel-driving-men. OK, and writers.
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and all the jobless horses, no carriage to pull anymore, no desert to cross on four legs…
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They’re even closing race tracks here in U.S. People gambling on-line. They could let the horses out to pasture, but the pastures are disappearing too. Yikes!
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Frizz, jamming along with your musical jamboree must be a real jazz –
with only the sound of words, here’s my jungle
http://eljaygee.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/tuesday-triptych-jungle/
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thank you for the
“jubilant elephant joins
a recumbent cow for
jaw-dropping impact…”
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Very lively Frizz – good song! Mine contribution this week comes from India: http://wp.me/pL5Ms-1dy
Enjoy 🙂
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“j” for Jude!
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very funny 😀
I was wondering whether he would actually play the guitar or if he’d fall down when he started swinging it!
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here’s my submission, Frizz http://lynneayersbeyondthebrush.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/a-z-challenge-j/
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hi Lynne,
nothing compares to your J-lamp with the acrobatic upside down stunt! Not even the “Fragata Presidente Sarmiento originally built as a training ship for the Argentine Navy and named after Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, the seventh President of Argentina, considered to be the last intact cruising training ship from the 1890s…”
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Your tracks just keep getting better, Frizz. Here’s my ‘j’ – no words just a Graham photo
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just a little push; sometimes we need a little push by a child, to make the next creative step forward, dear Tish; today, early in the morning, on our daily path to the bakery, my grandson asked me: “Why do have Donuts a hole in their middle?” I had to hesitate, but then felt a push, looking to the sun uprising: “It’s for the sun,” I answered: “the sun likes to shoot her first beams through the hole of a Donut.” So my little grandson (aged 4) stretched his Donut-hand to the sky and the sun made her first early morning shooting.
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Wonderful music! Here is my entry. http://wp.me/p23TG1-3CN
BE ENCOURAGED! BE BLESSED!
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thank you, Francine, the flight of your jumping cheerleaders made my day! We don’t have them in our town, only marching bands with trumpets and drums, standing their ground!
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love the banjo
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When I read your post today I thought of John Lennon and wished to share some of my favourite songs: http://collinesblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/11/remembering-john-lennon/
The music is a little different to what you shared with us today but I hope you enjoy it 🙂
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thank you, Colline, for “Remembering John Lennon” – he wasn’t only a musician, he was a kind of philosopher, politician, agitator for social change too… (together with Yoko Ono) – of course I often enjoyed playing many of his sometimes very ironic songs too …
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Will we hear you playing his music soon?
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I prefer to feature Toots Thielemans on blues harp telling about John Lennon when he met him in New York – and a fine IMAGINE interpretation:
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links to Toots Thieleman came from my friend Luzz, a composer and pianist; just another link came into my mail-box from Ian McAulay he wants me to play Summertime like Doc Watson, another of my idols:
so enough challenges – but actually my house is full: visited by daughters and grandchildren – no time to develop guitar arrangements – lately I played the ironic HER MAJESTY IS A PRETTY NICE GIRL from John Lennon – but GlennP. from Florida put new lyrics on the my chord progression and called it HIGH CLASS GIRL:
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/high-class-girl
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This is a beautiful version Frizz. Thank you for sharing.
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hi Rosemarie,
never seen so many “Jack-0-lanterns” on one location!
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my entry for J
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my entry for J
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thanks, Iris, for jumping into our weekly A to Z challenge with JAPAN …
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I just learned this week the word jaw, singing an old blues:
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/blues-wikiloops-jam-no-16028
you got dimples in your jaw…
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Hi Frizz, late this week and no list of possible places, just one: http://suejudd.com/2014/03/13/frizztexts-a-to-z-challenge-j-is-for-jameos-del-agua/
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Tricia Booker
introduced a juggler with a big audience; I saw only a juggler, in Berlin, who was ignored all day long:
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I like the idea, to give a journalist a statue:
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I am late but hope you enjoy this blues music. He is a great guitar player and I love his type of blues.
Isadora
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wonderful, Isadora, that you’ve featured the one and only John Lee Hooker! Once I tried to sing one of his songs too:
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/blues-wikiloops-jam-no-16028
Dimples, you got dimples in your JAW
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hahaha … just popped over to sound cloud. I must say you singing is more like Bob Dylan. LOL
Nice attempt to sing like John Lee … it’s his unique style I love so much.
Glad you enjoyed my entry. ~~~~~ : – )
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great music 🙂
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I have to try and get these in earlier – although you do provide my inspiration for the week! Please have a look at
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oh if I could sing your clever lyrics
to the song I played today:
https://soundcloud.com/fingerstyle_guitar/sweet-gypsy-bass
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Please do!
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oh I’ve a creative song writer now – that’s what I’ve been longing for so long: your permission, to sing your lyrics: that challenge will make my day today! Actually it’s still night here, but during daylight I’ll send the results to you: my singing on soundcloud and wikiloops – and a blog post with a quotation of your lyrics, my singing – and of course a back link to your page, O.K.?
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JACK AND JILL
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I. – A1
Jack and Jill,
are hipsters still
drink mason
Jars of water
B2
Jack Jives by night
his band’s delight
Jill dreams
of being a potter
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Jack’s day Job sucks
roundabout he mucks
writing Jingles
down on paper
D4
Jumbled days slide by
with lone Jailbird sigh
yet still he is
a Japer
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II. BASS – A5
Jill dreads the morn
John Barleycorn
Jack’s friends are
Just so Jerky
B6
in skinny Jeans faded
vintage closet raided
they ate all
her tofurkey
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Jack pops Jam cakes
Jill lovingly bakes
vegan to keep
to keep her figure
D8
an idea Jolts bright
Joyful time is right
the market even
even bigger
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III. – A9
Jack and Jill
quite fit the bill
Jolly in a big
Joint venture
B10
now Judge and Jury
in capitalist fury
they’ve secured a
fair-trade debenture
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Jack’s day Job sucks
roundabout he mucks
writing Jingles
down on paper
D4
Jumbled days slide by
with lone Jailbird sigh
yet still he is
a Japer, a Japer
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IV. BASS – A5
Jill dreads the morn
John Barleycorn
Jack’s friends are
Just so Jerky
B6
in skinny Jeans faded
vintage closet raided
they ate all
her tofurkey
CCCCCC7
Jack pops Jam cakes
Jill lovingly bakes
vegan to keep
to keep her figure
D4
Jumbled days slide by
with lone Jailbird sigh
yet still he is
a Japer, a Japer
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I’m always happy to collaborate with you!
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Actually doubted myself so I had two entries: http://nagpanaoan.com/2014/03/19/365-project-day-78-jar/ . This and the one before this.
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