Creativity is not always what it’s cracked up to be
by Derek Brown
“Among the worst instincts known to man is that of creation. Though creativity as utility or inspiration may well be a virtue, it is the incessant need of man to create infinite variations that steers away from the…
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Miles Davis, San Francisco, CA, April 1961“Miles Davis at the Black Hawk” Photographed at the Black Hawk Nightclub.
a badass double Mint Julep - TF
Etta James Rocks The House
Smokestacks Album of the Week
Recorded at the New Era Club in Nashville, TN in September 1963. Track after track or fiery, raw Etta genius.
We’ll be playing this every night this week.
Just got an absinthe fountain…
“After the first glass of absinthe you see things as you wish they were. After the second you see them as they are not. Finally you see things as they really are, and that is the most horrible thing in the world. I mean disassociated. Take a top hat. You think you see it as it really is. But you don’t because you associate it with other things and ideas.If you had never heard of one before, and suddenly saw it alone, you’d be frightened, or you’d laugh. That is the effect absinthe has, and that is why it drives men mad. Three nights I sat up all night drinking absinthe, and thinking that I was singularly clear-headed and sane. The waiter came in and began watering the sawdust.The most wonderful flowers, tulips, lilies and roses, sprang up, and made a garden in the cafe. “Don’t you see them?” I said to him. “Mais non, monsieur, il n’y a rien.”
(Source: thealcoholicscalendar)
Coming soon to Smokestack…
Today’s special is Memphis Soul Stew
We sell so much of this, people wonder what we put in it
We gonna tell you right now
Give me about a half a teacup of bass
Now I need a pound of fatback drums
Now give me 4 tablespoons of boiling Memphis guitars
This goin’ taste alright
Now just a little pinch of organ
Now give me a half a pint of horn
Place on the burner and bring to a boil
That’s it, that’s it, that’s it right there.
Now beat, well.
Love our music? Here it is on tap.
Bill Withers - Live at Carnegie Hall
Smokestacks Album of the Week
Some guy once said this is the best live album ever cut by anybody.
The opening track is simply superb. We’ll be playing this every night this week.
Nina Simone - ‘Nuff Said
Smokestacks Album of the Week
From the High Priestess of Soul herself. The cover of the Bee Gees track In The Morning is sublime, and Gin House Blues…nuff said.
We’ll be playing it every night for the next week, so pop in, say hello and have some more gin.
TF
