Mavis Staples & Butch Hancock

Two days at The Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival in Golden Gate Park...

Day One: two thoughts after Day One: 

1) is all we've accomplished since the 1960s--civil rights, pro-choice, antiwar--been for nothing?

2) if The Right has won as it seems to have won, why doesn't The Left retreat but insist on being left alone?

Now, please listen to Mavis Staples doing "Slippery People", much as she did it on Day One.

Day Two: no thoughts, just sit in the sun and listen to a all-girl bluegrass band and then to The Flatlanders.

Butch Hancock, guitarist, The Flatlanders:

"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in Hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on Earth and you should save it for someone you love."

Mavis Staples and Butch Hancock: proof that there's nothing quite like the beauty of mixed messages.