As a Writer & Producer, it is never not refreshing & reinvigorating to be reminded on occasion of what the simple power & elegance of what just ONE SONG SUNG WITH CONVICTION & Basic Instrumentation (even more so when it’s just one solo instrument) still retains the spellbinding magical allure to effect.
Technology as a handmaiden to inspiration will always have its place, yet nothing has yet been presented to us as a viable replacement for the energizing infusion of spirit delivered by the vibrational gut level undulations of the Human Voice.
And the more I hear about the straight faced genuineness of OLIVER ANTHONY, the more I’m certain that he represents the essential decency that so many of our great troubadours past were called upon by the Angels of Mercy to reconnect communities with those essential truths which verify to us all that division only serves to blind us to the fact that WE EACH HAVE A CROSS TO BEAR, the shape of which may differ from neighbor to neighbor, but the heavy weight of which is the same nonetheless. While being induced by deception to point the fingers at OTHERS who are just as mind fucked as are we all.
Mocking & belittling one another while being belittled & undermined by the same system designed to separate & abuse us all, while scapegoating ‘Algorithms’ programmed by the same systems of abuse to be the latest fall guy to justify why we are at each other’s throats, to throw us off the scent of our common serial abusers, who fear nothing more than us awakening together to notice that we are all in the same flea ridden bed, fighting over the same bug infested duvet, designed to cover but a few feet at a time.
We are being very skillfully played off of each other by those for whom abject greed has become creed, & who’d push a rabbi off of a bridge if but ONE MORE NICKEL could be derived from the action thereof. And who cynically use (as but ONE example) conceits such as ‘White Nationalism’ & ‘Diversity’ from which to hide behind so as to cover & protect themselves while exploiting our human need for inclusion into a system that has gotten far beyond our praying hands. They teach fear & hatred of Black People, but could give a fuck about White People except to USE THEM AS A SHIELD. And teach indifference towards the rest.
I should hope that OLIVER ANTHONY gathers what materials he needs to place his life on the stable, fertile ground that he has earned the right to expect, relative to his time put in, & his service to his fellow man. And May His God Bless & Keep Him & fill the cracks in his soul with the peace of a satisfied mind. And May we also awaken to see that we are but pawns in a very well orchestrated Psychological Operation.
The GREATEST RESOURCE ON EARTH IS HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS without the control of which, no system or group can fuel its power to keep us beneath our own grace & ultimate worth.
Sananda Maitreya !
Tuesday 29 August ‘23
Milano, Italia.
POST SCRIPT:
I’ve 3 Conjoined Bloodlines that all commingled in the great Appalachian wilds of North America. Native, Scots-Irish, & Melungeon. And since it is ever true that ‘Blood Doesn’t Lie’, whatever pains often taken by many to hide it from view, I’ve always found resonance with music & culture from that wonderfully diverse area of the world, whatever label has been in past slapped upon it for the convenience of marketing contrivances. And this is for as much as many other viable reasons why ‘The Rich Men North Of Richmond’ has found a favorable tint in the shade of my tree.
Those plaintive sounds are familiar to my genetics & are like unto a broom sweeping the caked & settled dust off the dirt floors of a dwelling long ago covered by splintered wooden planks, hewn from the same Oaks that shield the tin topped roof from a sweltering & formidable, unforgiving sun. I proudly embrace every single Ancestor who’ve shed blood into the bowl from which my ass was poured, without whom I’d not be this particular & peculiar beast that I most singularly & stubbornly am.
*Respects to my ‘other side’ which is primarily Berber, West Indian, & Spanish. And be Whatever It Is As It Comes, IT’s ALL GOOD ! And I thank you for lending time to this endeavour.
We all have the right to be proud of whatever has made us what we are.
And may we respect that right in each.
#OliverAnthony #Melungeons #ScotsIrish
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© TreeHouse Publishing, 29th August 2023
