Delayed Development
Jelly Roll Morton (Ferdinand Joseph Lamothe) recorded Hesitation Blues for the Library of Congress in 1938:
In 2009, Willie Nelson recorded Hesitation Blues on Austin City Limits with Asleep at the Wheel. It’s Western Swing, but very jazzy, especially in instrumentation.
Hesitation Blues has had several iterations in between and since. For instance in this recording by Hot Tuna (Jorma Kaukonen and Jack Casady) in what looks like found footage from 1970:
Finally, a version recorded in Galax, Virginia (not far from where I sit) by Martha Spencer, of whom I’d never heard before. I like this one, too.
Old standards travel far and wide. If there were a lesson here, that might be it.
Asuncion de Maria's husband, Juan, who is a lighting installer by trade, came over this morning and installed some light fixtures for us to replace ones the construction crews broke. I had told my husband that the people who broke them should replace them, but he didn't feel like waiting forever, which I guess is fine.
Meanwhile, I sterilized and stowed away the Envirothon team's dissection tools, although I suppose we'll need them again when the middle school group dissects crayfish.
Placido Domingo, everyone. I defrosted the garage freezer yesterday. Now I need to clean the water out, so I can turn it back on.