Happy Birthday Robert Johnson

Favorite Robert Johnson Song - "Love In Vain"
Created a painting with the same title in honor of Johnson.
Favorite cover - Cassandra Wilson – “Come On In My Kitchen” pic.twitter.com/1Xm8GUDX47

— Gregg Chadwick (@greggchadwick) May 9, 2022

Little Steven - "Out Of The Darkness" (VOTE! Biden/Harris)

Turn Up Loud!

Brilliant Video by Little Steven- Vote Biden Harris and Help Lead Us Out of the Darkness

Darlene Love with the E Street Band and the Miami Horns - All Alone On Christmas

Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to All!
Darlene Love lead vocals

--- The E Street Band ---
Clarence Clemons tenor sax solo
Danny Federici keyboards
Garry Tallent bass
Steven Van Zandt guitars
Patti Scialfa - backing vocals
Max Weinberg drums

--- The Miami Horns ---
Mark Pender trumpet
Rick Gazda trumpet
Stan Harrison tenor sax
Richie "La Bamba" Rosenberg trombone
Eddie Manion baritone sax
Arno Hecht saxophone


Pat Thrall guitars
Mark Alexander piano
Ula Hedwig backing vocals
Edna Wright backing vocals
Zoë Yanakis percussion
Benjamin Newberry chimes

Phil Cousineau's "The Oldest Story in the World"

My painting The Poet's Dawn is used as the cover image for Phil Cousineau's new book The Oldest Story in the World. Joseph Campbell, author of The Hero With a Thousand Faces, had this to say about Cousineau's work:

"It's just marvelous the way you've demonstrated how similar the journeys in myth are to those in art, literature, movies, and dreams. You've done what all artists and writers must do with the great stuff of myth: you've made it your own.
-Joseph Campbell on Phil Cousineau

Phil's Website:
More Details on Phil Cousineau and His Collaborations With Gregg Chadwick

Due per Mio Fratello: Streets of Fire & Born in the USA - Udine - July 23, 2009

Springsteen and the E Street Band
Born in the USA
Udine, Italia July 23, 2009


Springsteen and the E Street Band
Streets of Fire
Udine, Italia July 23, 2009

Due per mio fratello!

My brother Kent has an amazing piece in the Bainbridge Review:

"My son Luke has been a great example to me of living right side up. Luke’s never met someone he didn’t want to greet. Over his 22 years of constant illness Luke has perfected living for today. Luke’s greatest joy is in making someone smile."

"What Luke shows me is that living right side up spreads blessings all around you. He makes you feel good. So the whole community rejoiced when he had a successful double-lung transplant last year and had 12 great months of walking and feeling strong. He’s had serious setbacks this last month and is recovering slowly over at the University of Washington Medical Center. Knowing the greatness and fragility of life as it shines in Luke makes me want to share in it, right side up."
- Kent Chadwick

More at:
Right Side Up
Jimmy Buff's

U2 in Solidarity with Artists 4 Freedom in Iran - Sunday Bloody Sunday Live in Dublin

U2 performing Sunday Bloody Sunday during their 360 degrees world tour in Dublin on July, 24th, 2009.

As the song Sunday Bloody Sunday opens, U2 now scrolls the lyrics from the Rumi poem Azadi. The word Azadi itself simply means Freedom. U2 is supporting Artists 4 Freedom by using the Rumi poem which provides the lyrics to Dj Spooky and Sussan Deyhim's new track, Azadi (The New Complexity). U2's multimedia screens mash together the lyrics to Azadi along with photos of the protestors in Iran and artworks by Shirin Neshat. Inspiring stuff.

Azadi (The New Complexity) is a song based on a classic poem by Rumi, one of the poet laureates of Iran’s still vibrant poetic legacy.

Here is the original poem translated into English

SHOW ME YOUR FACE
by Rumi

i crave
flowers and gardens

open your lips
i crave
the taste of honey

come out from
behind the clouds
i desire a sunny face

your voice echoed
saying “leave me alone”
i wish to hear your voice
again saying “leave me alone”

i swear this city without you
is a prison
i am dying to get out
to roam in deserts and mountains

i am tired of
flimsy friends and
submissive companions

i am blue hearing
nagging voices and meek cries
i desire loud music
drunken parties and
wild dances

one hand holding
a cup of wine
one hand caressing your hair
then dancing in orbital circle
that is what i yearn for

i can sing better than any nightingale
but because of
this city’s freaks
i seal my lips
while my heart weeps

yesterday the wisest man
holding a lit lantern
in daylight
was searching around town saying

i am tired of
all these beast and brutes
i seek
a true human

we have all looked
for one but
no one could be found
they said

yes he replied
but my search is
for the one
who cannot be found

Read more: DJ Spooky & Sussan Deyhim - Azadi - The New Complexity
Under Creative Commons License: Attribution Non-Commercial No Derivatives




Artists 4 Freedom is international in scope and is located between London, Barcelona, Lisbon and Berlin.
Link Below:
Artists 4 Freedom

As a member of Artists 4 Freedom, I ask you to create a poem, a painting, a song for Iran and join the cause. The world is coming together in support of Iran.

(And a special message to Little Steven. Little Steven is touring right now as a member of Bruce Springsteen's E Street Band. But Little Steven is also an amazing political songwriter who helped bring down apartheid in South Africa with his song Sun City and openly dreamed of a free Berlin, when others labeled him as naive, in his heartbreaking song Checkpoint Charlie. Little Steven, Artists 4 Freedom needs you to write a song for Freedom in Iran.)