Look here, brother.

I'm not trying to jive you with any sort of cosmic debris,
'cause I have no clue  either, you see.

Please don't be so hard on stupidity.
I suspect the best that humanity

can achieve is a strategy
in which we are aware of and minimize mine and yours, stupidity,

while grasping there's no finality
but rather on ongoing effort that we

endeavor within a strategy
to minimize our stupidity.

Our stupidity,
oh yah, is alive in you and in me, our stupidity.

Now I rather suspect the very best that the very best that humanity
can achieve is a strategy

to be aware of and therefore minimize stupidity
In you and me. Oh yeah, in you and me.


Charles Ashurst 2015 8 14

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My songs exist for one reason, the sheer joy of a guy singing a song.

I'm a quarter Danish, a quarter Texan, and half Mormon.

Influence: Steve Miller, U Utah Philips, Wendy Carlos, Aere Greenway, Phil Oaks. Mike Pinder, Moody Blues, Blood Sweat and Tears. Bob Dylan, Mark Russel, Aretha Franklin, The Buffalo Springfield, Frank Sanatra, Jonie Mitchel, Judy Collins, Buffy St Marie, Lee Nolan West, James Paul Ashurst, Mathew Brice Ashurst, Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, Doors, Ann Ashurst Jackson, Susan Caroline Ashurst, John what-the-hells-his-middle-name Ashurst, Earl Mark Ashurst, Joe, Barabara Brown Ashurst, Douglas Stevens, Paul Stevens, Hazen Stevens, Stan Stevens, Bob Stevens, Lee Stevens, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir, and Jesus Christ. Amen.
My music doesn't come out of San Francisco. It doesn't come out of Detroit. It doesn't come out of the Mississippi Delta. I'd be proud if it did but it's not trying to be that. My music comes out of Mormon country, USA, within a place, within a period of history, within this culture. I'm trying embrace my LDS, my progressive, and my ultra conservative loved ones.