Yeah, Elvis Costello. Playing the Cascade last night.
Watchin’ the detectives. Niice.
Just the man and his talent, on display.
The angels may want to wear your red shoes, but your aim is true. Elvis is playing his Centenary Tour here, in case he’s not around to do it in 2054. Thoughtful chap.
His song catalog is extensive. Much too large for just one evening. I missed hearing a few favorites. No matter. It was a good show.
George Thorogood and the Destroyers play there tonight. Top name entertainment at the Cascade. It’s Really Redding.
Edit:
Somebody posted Allison from last night:
Mesmerizing Yo-Yo video, shot in Redding
Artistic dance video shot at Caldwell Park
I get a lot of nice comments about the dance videos I’ve been posting here. Here’s a new one from cinematographer Peyton Peltier, featuring dancers Bradyn Olsen and Joe Friedman.
Deep thoughts indeed. Nice work. You can like this work at the Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/TheRisingFlight
“Looking for my guitar” – Yamaha FG-612S sold in Redding 2 years ago
Saw this plea on Craigslist a year ago. Renee tells me she’d still like to find it, so I am re-posting it. Maybe you can help. In the greater scheme of things, it’s perhaps not crucial. But a poetic return of the instrument is pleasing to consider.
“It’s a long story, but here goes. First of all, PLEASE do not delete this. My name is Renee. My mother and I lived in Redding in the 70’s and I bought this guitar from Bernie’s when I was just 15. I worked a whole summer to afford it. I’d read many reviews on The Sound Junky about this guitar so I knew it was a good one.
My mom contributed half the money, and I gave her my Oldesmobile, Delta 88 to cover that. I really LOVED this guitar and all the cool accessories I had with it, as you can imagine.
My daughters were both played to, nightly, while in my stomach, with this guitar, and it lulled them to sleep while I sung songs to them with it as they grew up. Now, 27 and 20, they loved it also.
I sung to my sister, when she was alive with it, and my father. I have lost them, all 3 now…mom, dad and sisters (both).
Well, I’m 46 now. I had that guitar til 2 years ago, when my mom’s heart went into failure. She was in RMC for 45 days before she passed away, and I live in Red Bluff, and I just couldn’t afford to drive every day back and forth, so I was forced to pawn my guitar to Olde West Guns and Loan.
She died. 46 days into the driving back and forth, I lost my beloved mother, and worse, I went into a horrible depression and lost my guitar.
There’s not a price you can put on the value of it…and it’s got memories from me, while I owned it nearly 30 years.
When I came out of the depression a bit, I went to get it out and to try to piece my life back together, but discovered that the pawn ticket had lapsed during my mourning. I lost my guitar…and I know, it’s my fault, but if anyone out there happened to buy it, please, please, please, give me a call and let’s talk about how I can buy it back. I’m anything but rich…but I guarantee, it will go back to where it belongs, and I will even HELP you find another guitar if that is the issue.
This isn’t just a guitar. It’s a symbol of the memory of my mother and me working together to achieve something…the memories of the time my two daughters were inside my stomach, and the times I sung for both my parents while they were alive, and my sister who’s also passed, at all the holidays. It is an item that cannot be priced, or have a price put on it.
My # is 530-355-7573. I’d be so glad to find out it’s alive…that someone has a huge heart and understands how MUCH this means to my family, and will help me relocate it.”
Here’s an image of such a guitar from Google. Looks like a lovely 12 string, but obviously it holds more than just music for the writer. Do you know where this instrument went?
Great new Redding dance video from the Flash Dance Crew
One foot crow
Older humans may regret seeing crows feet in the mirror, but this Redding old crow would surely beg to differ.
Just a fleeting episode. See a one foot crow. Grab the camera. And then the traffic light changes at the intersection of two very different lives in Redding.
One imagines you need be a tough old bird, even by crow standards, to get by on one foot around here. Street crow has cred.
Pondering what might have happened to the other foot, nothing pleasant comes to mind. Still, dignity in the struggle. No Crow Workers Comp. No Crow SSI, or Disability checks. What are you looking at anyway?
Six lanes and smoggy skies
Interstate 5 is six lanes wide now in Redding. With thick smoke from local wildfires standing in for urban smog, we can glimpse a future where our town begins to resemble the rest of California. So best get your furnance and air filters 20×25 ordered, because if this is the way Redding is heading, you’re going to be changing them a lot.
Just need to fill up the lanes with bumper to bumper traffic, and the image will be complete.
Progress, or so it would appear.
Listen to CD and tracks from local artist Tracy Jean Manuel
Redding area singer songwriter Tracy Jean Manuel has released a CD, humbly titled “Halfway Decent.” Listen up.
Blogger Marck Beauchamp pointed me to this brilliant local music. I know readers will want me to characterize the music in words, since that’s what blog writers do. I don’t have much patience with genres when it comes to music like this. It doesn’t fit well into a pigeonhole. At times it conjures earth and roots, colored with evocative Americana. Other parts swell and bloom with restrained electronic euphoria. It’s the mixture of those flavors that propels her work beyond easy categorization. You’ll just have to listen to it all, and decide for yourself what to call it. Luckily, she makes that easy.
You can listen to more Tracy Jean Manuel at the link, and then go on to download the whole work for whatever you think it’s worth. I think it’s worth a lot. Clever, thoughtful direct marketing, by the way. You can also order the physical CD, signed by the artist. I’d suggest you like Tracy’s Facebook page so you can keep an ear on future artistry from this complex and beautiful songbird going forth. Hearing it in entirety again last night, I wanted it to just go on and on. Good work Tracy. You’re Really Redding.
Churn Creek Meadow Organic Farm delivers to your door
CCMOF is an organic farm that offers fresh produce grown in the fertile soil of world renowned Churn Creek Bottom. Then, they offer free delivery to your home or office. check out their website:
A local business offering to locals. Buying food grown nearby reduced your carbon footprint. They are hosting a Family Farm Day where you can get a fresh brunch 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM on September 3. Mark your calendar! There’s a flyer about this local Family Farming event at the link. The “Bottom” has been a local source of fresh produce since, well forever. Grow on. That’s Really Redding.
Redding physician/photographer Adam Attoun
Adam Attoun combines artistic aspects of digital photographic imagery to compliment the health diagnostic images he provides. Check out his lovely artistic online gallery.
Good photography combines art and science. At some point, those boundaries blur. Looks like Adam embraces the ambiguity.
Art, science. Cross Sectional Images and Glamour Shots. The whole picture. Like Da Vinci, Uomo Universale, the universal man. Combining art and science to greater effect. That’s Really Redding.