Scrappoer Blackwell, Chuck Brodsky, Bill Broonzy, Guy Clark, Honeyboy Edwards, Robbie Fulks, Lowell George, Merle Haggard, Lightnin' Hopkins, Christine Kane, Hudie Lednetter, Fred McDowell, Joni Mitchell, Bill Morrissey, John Prine, Townes Van Zandt, Loudon Wainwright, Robert Pete Williams
Jim Schwall, Guitar, Mandolin, singer-songwriter - is the co-leader of the Siegel-Schwall Band, "one of the best acts in America", - Billboard Magazine.
After playing drums and accordion in elementary school, Jim Schwall found the guitar in high school and has never put it down for long. In college, Jim met piano/harmonica player Corky Siegel and formed the Siegel-Schwall Band. Siegel-Schwall toured full-time for about ten years, releasing over a dozen albums on Vanguard and Wooden Nickel Records. Siegel-Schwall starting playing occasional reunion gigs in the late '80's and currently have two recent CD's in the Alligator Records catalog.
For well over 40 years, Jim has also played with various other bands, releasing recordings with many of these, including two versions of the Jim Schwall Band. He has also played solo acoustic gigs for over 40 years but, aside from acetates cut in high school, never made a solo acoustic recording until 2007's "Getting Old," on Madison WI's Uvulittle Records. Currently he lives in Madison, is a member of SoDangYang along with singer/songwriter Marques Bovre, plays solo, works in visual arts, and is recently retired from social service work.
Have you talked to the governor lately?? You can just pick up the phone,dial 608-266-1212 and his friendly staffers willl take your message; " Please make the Jacki Rickert Medical marijuana Act an Executive Order and end patient abuse." They'll be glad to hear from you and you'll be glad you did,because you'll ease the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people
Have you talked to the governor lately?? You can just pick up the phone,dial 608-266-1212 and his friendly staffers willl take your message; " Please make the Jacki Rickert Medical marijuana Act an Executive Order and end patient abuse." They'll be glad to hear from you and you'll be glad you did,because you'll ease the suffering of hundreds of thousands of people
Here in Wisconsin we have a small window of opportunity to reclaim the public's right to use whatever medications,either natural or prerscribed in the maintenance of their health. I'm talking about the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act. Cannibas hemp has been used as a medicine for centuries. Eli Lilly had many preparations made from hemp that's recorded in their pharmacopeia in the 1920's. The DEA's Law Judge issued a statement that 'In it's natural state, marijuana is the most therapeutically active substance known to man.". Many who are like myself and have neuromuscular ailments are prescribed drugs that are far more harmful to us than the symptoms we are trying to get rid of. For myself it's about not having my kidney's shut down from trying to stop muscle spasms and ending the nerve pains that run down my legs that no drug prescribed by any doctor can ease. Ideally,as a Constitutional Right,we should be able to use any product that has a positive effect on our individual health. Cannibas hemp whether smoked,eaten or vaporized can do that for millions of patients and that right of choice should be ours,not lawmakers. But we find ourselves needing the aide of Lawmakers to get that right returned to us. If you support a person's right to use cannibas hemp or use it yourself, PLEASE contact you local Senator and State Representitive at; http://www.legis.state.wi.us and tell them to make the Jacki Rickert Medical Marijuana Act a law. Thank-you
Again as the Wheel of Life turns we have come to the leaving of the Grand Parents of the Southern, Summer Medicine Wheel who have aided us in growing all that we have planted both in the ground and in our Spirits. We thank them for fulfilling their Responsibilities as we fulfill ours and wish them well as we welcome the Grand Parents of the Western, Fall, Medicine Wheel who are responsible for aiding us in the Harvest of that which we have raised during the Summer months. We Thank the Grand Parents of the Western Wheel for showing us just what we are 'harvesting'. Did we plant good foods and took good care of our Earth gardens and are now seeing that bounty come forth? Did we sow seeds within our Spirits that bring out the very best in ourselves or did we raise the plants of Hate and Discontent. For both gardens are the food of life and both the Earth and Spirit must be tended and made strong. The corn,beans and squash that nourishes our bodies and the attitudes and beliefs we raise both come as aides to our highest development and growth. As we gather this harvest we thank the Grand Parents of the Western Wheel for helping us see how well we 'garden' our lives. For helping us to 'see' the true value of our plantings. We thank them for their loving gentle guidance and also give thanks to them for Being. For it is in their Being that we grow,develop,and teach what our harvest has brought so we may disgard what it is within ourselves and our Earth gardens that 'Doesn't grow corn.' We Bless the Grand Parents of the Western Wheel and Thank them for their continued Loving assistance as we walk this part of the Great Medicine Wheel of Life.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY WOODSTOCK!!! Being 15 at the time, today would have been the day I got There, not because I didn't like the opening acts but because I would have hitched a ride and walked the last 100 miles or so, got there in time for the rain, slid down the hill, swam in the pond,danced my ass off,helped those who had too much party,passed out food and stuck around to help with the site clean-up. BTW that took almost a month,for those who thought we'd only leave a huge mess...WE DIDN'T. So the next time someone calls you a 'Woodstock Hippie" smile and say 'Thank-you'. Why??? BECAUSE THE HIPPIES GOT IT RIGHT!!!!!!!!
p.s. Being a Hippie is a hell of a lot more than partying every night,growing your hair,or doing every drug you can lay your hands on. Some of those elements are there but the biggest part of being a Hippie is giving a damn about more than just yourself. It's about making sure everything in Creation has as good a life as you do,from the youngest to the Eldest from the waters to the air to all the lands and the animals on them. So treat eachother with kindness.
we'll be playing at the badger bowl in madison tonite at 9:30. come on down and party like a horse. a good time is guaranteed for all or your money back. admission is free.
Unless you're interested in an early death or having your children made more sick than this bogus flu can make them REFUSE ANY VACCINATIONS FOR H1N1 FLU,EVEN IF IT MEANS YOU TAKE YOUR KIDS OUT OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS, IT'S A DANGEROUS SMOKE SCREEN FOR AN AILMENT THAT'S NOT TRULY FATAL.
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