Mustang Sally by Buddy Guy on Grooveshark

We’ll have a booth at this event for the first time this year. Sunday Sept. 8, 10 AM-6 PM. Solano is on the edge of Berkeley and Albany, perpendicular to San Pablo and Shattuck. They say 200,000 people attend this affair. Music, food, crafts, eco-type booths, etc. We’ll be selling our building books at a DISCOUNT! (Our booth is pretty close to top of block, outside 5 Star Video, 1882 Solano. Across street from Noah’s Bagels.)

Info:

https://www.solanoavenueassn.org/strol.htm

https://www.yelp.com/biz/solano-stroll-berkeley

BTW, when I was a kid, my brother and I used to take a streetcar from the Laguna Honda Station in San Francisco down to the Key System terminal at the base of the Bay Bridge, then catch the F train that crossed the bridge (on the lower deck) and went all the way through Berkeley on Shattuck, then through the tunnel to Solano Avenue, where we’d get off and walk a block or so to our cousins’ house on Marin Avenue. My aunt Dorothy was married to ex Berkeley All-American Berkeley High School football player Chili Bertoli, and we spent many weekends with the Bertolis. 10-12 years old, traveling all that distance on 1940s rapid transit, no chaperones. (The rail lines were torn out in 1958, and the lower deck converted to pavement for cars.) Ah me, I do digress.

“Will It Ever Change,” by Luther Allison from a great album, “Live in Chicago”:

Will It Ever Change? by Luther Allison on Grooveshark

From Evan Kahn

https://youtube.com/watch?v=nLgk0WMI1-Y

“…Jesus dropped the charges,

now I’m free down in my soul.”

What away to start the day!

From Rick Gordon

Saw Twenty Steps From Stardom yesterday and is it great! I’ve been disappointed by a number of music documentaries where they had too much talk and too little music. Also by films like Cadillac Records, and Ray, which I guess (the latter) everyone liked but me; I thought both films were phony.

  I’ve always loved backup singers and this film not only honors these remarkable women, but has a ton of great music. I had no idea of the power and artistry of Darlene Love, Lisa Fischer, Merry Clayton, Tata Vega, and Judith Hill — among others. The power of gospel backgrounds.

   It’s a sparkling documentary –the filmmakers do everything right. The last number, with Darlene Love doing “Lean on Me,” is stunning; the backup harmonies gave me chills. It’s not playing at many theaters, so I’d try to see it soon.