Two Performances and One Pose

Billie Holiday born on this date April 7 in 1915 as Eleanora Fagan and later called Lady Day sings these songs for you from youtube collection.

Lover Man

Jack Kerouac pictured this song in his book “on the road” as followings: “…I huddled in the cold, rainy wind and watched everything across the sad vineyards of October in the valley. My mind was filled with that great song… It’s not the words so much as the great harmonic tune and the way Billie sings it, like a woman stroking her man’s hair in soft lamp-light. The winds howled. I got cold…

Aint Noboby’s Business

Good Morning Heartache

She doesn’t sing, between barking at neighbors she rests.

Portrait of Lady Daisy digital image by Fung-Lin Hall

L’Une chante, l’autre pas or One sings and the other doesn’t

Lawrence Wright – A journalist is now a performer

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Online video from New Yorker My Trip to Al-Qaida

Lawrence talks to Charlie Rose.

The Silent Kingdom (Dave Pollard 2004 blog post)