During my recent trip to Pennsylvania, I was re-united with my long lost 480+ album music collection amassed between '75 & ~'86. Tonight I'm gonna pop a few tunes in here as I pore over them and reminisce.
You can call it "dated", but I call it some of the best times of my life.
It's been said that the sin of Sodom and Gomorrah had nothing to do with sex; that those cities were smote because the people who lived there were inhospitable.
In other words, they were greedy bastards who refused to share their food and homes with travelers who might need a little hospitality.
All fine and good, but it's still more fun to pretend Sodom and Gomorrah were destroyed because the citizens were hard-partying sluts. Makes for better visuals too. Besides, rich folks might skimp on the tithing if preachers started preaching about the evils of greed.
Welcome to Dancin' in me Bones version of the Sabbath, where you can post songs about the Lord, the Devil or the Pagan Deity of your choice. And what better band to kick off our Sunday services than Black Sabbath...
Hazel Dickens was the eighth of eleven children, born into a mining family in Mercer County, West Virginia. She's known as much for her union activism as she is for her music. Seems only fitting to honor Hazel on this Labor Day with a song that was once sung by union activists as they fought... and died... for the right to organize.