Website review: The Unofficial BILLIE HOLIDAY Websi...
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- nails58 rated 7 months ago
- the late great
suntree rated 22 months ago- LIBERTY ladyday, thank you for this photo of Billie Holiday. Ms. Holiday opened all of her shows with the following song: Southern trees bear strange fruit, Blood on the leaves and blood at the root, Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze, Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees. Pastoral scene of the gallant south, The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth, Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh, Then the sudden smell of burning flesh. Here is fruit for the crows to pluck, For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck, For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop, Here is a strange and bitter crop. This woman knew what was going on and it was terrible truth to see. God, sometimes I wonder about people. I post this because I want to remember the visceral nature of injustice. Why? I believe that the same sense of right, of judgement that compelled the lynching is now loose on the world. In the front row, goading, righteous,supporting is my former Country Canada, taken over as it has now by a group of texas schooled religious zealots where Harmper, the PM's claim to fame is that one day he might write a book about the NHL. PS. Just reading in the Washington Post that the original Jamestown settlers, i.e. the Smith guy who married pocohontas etc. I foget quite when but I think around 1607 had slaves of course. The people who were enslaved and forced into slavery for the freedom loving religious types for whom and by whose example we massacre countless turkeys in memory of that day in the fall, were actually from Angola. You see, first they had been captured by the Portuguese who were working for the spanish. The Portuguese then went with this load of slaves off to Mexico where the slaves were to be sold. Pirates, British ones, waylayed the Portuguese fuckers and took the slaves. The pirates, being hungering wandered down the coast to Jamestown where they exchanged 10 or 20 of these slaves for victuals. The pirates eventually sold the entire "cargo" to some interests in Cuba.
- Mayamoi rated 27 months ago
- Here you can watch an interview with Julia Blackburn who has written a Billie Holiday biography and you can listen to her read several chapters of her book.
- Auntikrist rated 33 months ago
- Often imitated. NEVER duplicated. One of the crown jewels of jazz.
- oh-fiona rated 39 months ago
- A beautiful voice. There's an "official" site too.
- chaimke rated 39 months ago
- "Billie Holiday had the kind of voice you never forget." But, why would ever want to forget her voice?
