I long for your embrace
In your arms I feel safe
And it all falls into place

Embrace

It seems only fitting that we slide down the rabbit hole on the last day of February... 

Grace Slick, White Rabbit performed by Suzzane, the Tambourine Queen:

“White Rabbit” was written and performed by Grace Slick while she was still with The Great Society. When that band broke up in 1966, Slick was invited to join Jefferson Airplane to replace their departed female singer, Signe Toly Anderson, who left the band with the birth of her child. The first album Slick recorded with Jefferson Airplane was Surrealistic Pillow, and Slick provided two songs from her previous group: her own “White Rabbit” and “Somebody to Love”, written by her brother-in-law Darby Slick and recorded under the title "Someone to Love" by The Great Society.[4] Both songs became top ten hits[5] for Jefferson Airplane and have ever since been associated with that band.[6]

For Slick and others in the 1960s, drugs were a part of mind-expanding and social experimentation. With its enigmatic lyrics, "White Rabbit" became one of the first songs to sneak drug references past censors on the radio. Even Marty Balin, Slick's eventual rival in Jefferson Airplane, regarded the song as a "masterpiece". In interviews, Slick has related that Alice in Wonderland was often read to her as a child, and remained a vivid memory well into her adulthood.[2]...  The music combined with the song's lyrics strongly suggests the sensory distortions experienced with hallucinogens, and the song was later used in pop culture to imply or accompany just such a state.[10]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Rabbit_(Jefferson_Airplane_song)

Chuck Berry,  "Johnny be Good"    performed by Rockin Shirley

Written by Berry in 1955, the song is about a poor country boy who plays a guitar "just like ringing a bell," and who might one day have his "name in lights."[3] Berry has acknowledged that the song is partly autobiographical, and originally had "colored boy" in the lyrics, but he changed it to "country boy" to ensure radio play.[4] As well as suggesting that the guitar player is good, the title hints at autobiographic elements because Berry was born at 2520 Goode Avenue in St. Louis.[3] The song was initially inspired by Berry's piano player, Johnnie Johnson,[5][6] though developed into a song mainly about Berry himself. Though Johnnie Johnson played on many other Chuck Berry songs, it was Lafayette Leake who played piano on this song.[3]... Berry has written thirty more songs involving the character Johnny B. Goode, "Bye Bye Johnny", "Go Go Go", and "Johnny B. Blues"; and titled an album, and the nearly 19 min instrumental title track from it, as "Concerto in B. Goode".     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johnny_B._Goode

John Fogerty, "Hot Rod Heart"  performed by James, Mr. Bass.

Hot Rod Heart came off the album Blue Moon Swamp ... the fifth solo studio album by American singer/songwriter John Fogerty, released in 1997 Guest musicians for vocal backing, the Lonesome River Band, were invited to join in on "Southern Streamline" and "Rambunctious Boy". Other vocal backing was provided by The Waters on "Blueboy" and The Fairfield Four on "A Hundred and Ten in the Shade". Luis Conte accompanied on select songs as a guest percussionist.     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Moon_Swamp


Featuring the usual suspects:
Arden, vocals and acoustic lead guitar,
Cathy, vocals 
Don D on electronic drums
Gillie, acoustic guitar and vocals 
James on bass and vocals
John on keyborads
Robin, rhythm & lead guitar  & vocals 
Roy, plugged in flute & blues harp
Rockin' Shirley, acoustic guitar & vocals 
Suzzane, The Tambourine Queen, , vocals and tambourine 


Down the Rabbit Hole We Go    wwwweeeeeeeeeee....

We moved out of the woods and down to the ocean in July of last year and had out first jam in the new old kitchen in mid september... Friends rolled in after * in the evening and the last of the gang packed up and left around 2 in the morning... It was, for all intense and purposes a three act kitchen party.. 
Act One..  includes offerings from early, middle and the closing of the first part of the evening:

JJ Cale & Eric Clapton, "Ride the River" performed by Rockin' Shirley

"The Road to Escondido is an album by J.J. Cale and Eric Clapton. It was released on 7 November 2006. Contained on this album are the final recordings of Billy Preston, to whom the album is dedicated.... A number of high-profile musicians also agreed to work on the album, including Billy Preston, Derek Trucks, Taj Mahal, Pino Palladino, John Mayer, Steve Jordan and Doyle Bramhall II."    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Escondido

Jimmy Reeds/Mama Reed,  "Baby What You Want Me to Do"  performed by Arden and featuring Sue on acoustic flute and Tony on blues harp....

"Baby What You Want Me to Do" (sometimes called "You Got Me Running" or "You Got Me Runnin'") is a blues song that was written and recorded by Jimmy Reed in 1959....that features "Reed's unique, lazy loping style of vocals, guitar and harmonica."[2] In a 1959 review by Billboard magazine, it was called "uninhibited and swampy ... deliver[ed] freely in classic, gutbucket fashion." [3] Music critic Cub Koda describes it as "deceptively simple" and as "one of the true irreducibles [sic] of the blues, a song so basic and simple it seems like it's existed forever."[4   

Jimmy Reed received the sole credit for the song, although blues historian Gerard Herzhaft points out "like almost all of Reed's pieces and whatever the official credits are, it is an original composition by his wife, Mama Reed."[5   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baby_What_You_Want_Me_to_Do

Traditional folk,  "The House of the Rising Sun"; performed by Suzzane, the Tamborine Queen, and featuring Cool Cliff on fiddle and Yarmouth's very own Wailing Whistler, Dave...

"The House of the Rising Sun" is a traditional folk song, sometimes called "Rising Sun Blues". It tells of a life gone wrong in New Orleans; many versions also urge a sibling to avoid the same fate. The most successful commercial version, recorded in 1964 by the British rock group the Animals, was a number one hit on the UK Singles Chart and also in the United States, Canada and Australia.[1] The song has been described as the "first folk-rock hit".[2][3]   

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_House_of_the_Rising_Sun

Act: Two:  While the vast majority of musicians had packed up and drifted into the livingroom to feed on a spread and or out  on the porch to visit with others, Cathy, Gilles and Sue continued performing in the kitchen...

Ed Sheeran - Thinking Out Loud , performed by Cathy

Sheeran's second studio album, x (read as "multiply"), was released worldwide on 23 June 2014. In a span of three years, Sheeran wrote more than 120 songs for the album..."Thinking Out Loud" was released on 24 September 2014 as the album's third single.... It became his second single to reach number one in the UK,[82] and spent eight weeks at number two on the US Billboard Hot 100...   

Featuring the usual suspects:
Arden, vocals and acoustic lead guitar,
Cool Cliff,  fiddle 
Cathy, vocals 
Don D on electronic drums
Gillie, acoustic guitar and vocals 
James on bass and vocals
Madeliene on keyborads
Roy, plugged in flute & blues harp
 Rockin' Shirley, acoustic guitar & vocals 
Sue, accustic flute
Suzzane, The Tamborene Queen, , vocals and tamberiene 
Yarmouth's own Wailing Whistler, Dave....



christening the new/old kitchen: in Lower Wedgeport Act 1 & Act 2  (part: 1)

This one came out of obscurity & finally ventured into the unknown. A cool place full of progressive 'unknowns'.

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