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 What Gillian Welch is singing is nowhere near the blues.  The blues has a rather tight format and here is a description from wiki:

Blues, as a genre, is also characterized by its lyrics, bass lines, and instrumentation. Early traditional blues verses consisted of a single line repeated four times. It was only in the first decades of the 20th century that the most common current structure became standard: the AAB pattern, consisting of a line sung over the four first bars, its repetition over the next four, and then a longer concluding line over the last bars.

I don't understand a lot of musical terms, but as you can see this is not Gillian Welch.  One thing Gillian and the blues have in common is that they are both included in a kind of music called Americana, which wiki tells us:

Americana (also known as American roots music)^[1] is an amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions that make up the musical ethos of the United States, specifically those sounds that are emerged from the Southern United States such as folk, gospel, blues, country, jazz, rhythm and blues, rock and roll, bluegrass, and other external influences.

Which is kind of vague especially when you include and other external influences.  A lot of these musical genres pretty loose, but I maintain you can tell Americana music when you hear it because it comes close to the bone.  I hope that clears everything up.

I have tried on several occasions to promote various songs and movies to my colleagues with not much success.  But that's to be expected, most of us like to find our own stuff.

Speaking of esoteric interests I have seen all three republican debates.  Without the big dog they are awfully boring, especially since none of these guys want to go after the guy overwhelmingly in first place.  I suspect that they are all hoping to be VP, or even better the big dog will drop dead, and there they will be, leading the pack with maybe 12 percent, the likely successor.

Of course I don't like any Republican, but with the recent turn of the party from bad issues towards pure evil there is now a wide gradient of Republicans from pure evil at the bottom to wrong-headed fool at the top.

I never understood why Pence ever thought he had a chance.  Normally a guy does not look in favor on a guy who tried to get him hung by thugs.  Was he a Trump apologist or foe?  Was he a breath mint or a candy mint?  

I guess the one in the current bunch who I like best is Christie, very oily, but saner than the rest.

And Haley is not far from him in sanity.  She wants to bomb Iran, but then so does the rest of the party.  But I thought she had a moment of clarity in the last debate.  The rest of the candidates were all howling about abortion and she said something like. "Look guys, 60 percent of Americans want abortion legal, and dislike that as we may, there is nothing we can do about that.  And all this howling is losing us elections and not bringing a ban on abortion a scintilla closer."

Well I don't like this because I love seeing republicans lose elections over abortion, but it would do the republicans a lot of good to listen to her.

But of course they won't.  They think howling about something is the same as doing something about it, and more important really because then they get a lot of ink and have a good chance of winning the primary, though of course they will have no chance in the general election.  How about Tuberville guy, shredding the leadership of the our armed forces over some arcane anti abortion issue which he will never get repealed anyway?  How about the house, spending time toppling their chairmen for sport instead of passing bills that might have a chance of becoming law?  How about those increasingly bizarre investigations which proceeding from no evidence but they don't like the guy?

I'm going to say, I am kind of in agreement with Beagles on this Haley woman, though I would like her a lot better if she kicked Trump's tiny nuts with her five inch heels.