Blue Truck, Red State: Chet Atkins

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Sunday, August 22, 2021

Sunday Drive: Sleep Walk

Once upon a time . . .

The beautiful tune that calls to mind long-ago summer dreams, as performed by the great Chet Atkins and Leo Kottke in 1987:

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Sunday Drive: Moonglow/Picnic

From the delightful collaborative album Chester and Lester, 1976, which earned a Grammy award:

Sunday, January 24, 2016

Sunday Drive: Mr. Sandman

As performed by the late, great Chet Atkins:

Sunday, January 10, 2016

Sunday Drive: Swedish Rhapsody

Brrr. It's clear and 27 degrees here in Texas this morning, a good time to play something cheerful. Based on Swedish folk tunes, this lively number was a hit for Percy Faith and his orchestra in 1953.

The inimitable Chet Atkins also recorded this on his 1956 album, Finger-Style Guitar:

Sunday, May 12, 2013

Sunday Drive: Dvorak, Humoresque

By the late, great Chet Atkins:

Prayer for Peace

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace. Where there is hatred, let me sow love; where there is injury, pardon; where there is discord, harmony; where there is doubt, faith; where there is despair, hope; where there is darkness, light; where there is sadness, joy. Grant that I may seek not so much to be consoled as to console; to be understood as to understand; to be loved as to love. For it is in giving that we receive; it is in pardoning that we are pardoned; and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life. Amen.

Churches say that the expression of love in a heterosexual monogamous relationship includes the physical, the touching, embracing, kissing, the genital act - the totality of our love makes each of us grow to become increasingly godlike and compassionate. If this is so for the heterosexual, what earthly reason have we to say that it is not the case with the homosexual?

It is a perversion if you say to me that a person chooses to be homosexual. You must be crazy to choose a way of life that exposes you to a kind of hatred. It's like saying you choose to be black in a race-infected society.

If God, as they say, is homophobic, I wouldn't worship that God.

--Archbishop Desmond Tutu