eHoOT 24hr with Playing For Change Day September 21, 2013

Very excited about upcoming CFM "eHoOt" and PFC gig. 

Please stop by to listen or play!

Catfish Friday Music is proud announce the 1st ever 24 hour “eHoot,” (aka - Hootenanny), "Online," (your place or ours) in participation with the “Playing For Change Day (www.facebook.com/playingforchangeday) September 21, 2013.
This will be a 24 hour event and broadcast on CFM website: www.catfishfridaymusic.com; and,
CFM YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/catfishfridaymusic.

Participants can sign up, join here, and suggest a preferred time, and pic a slot. All time slots are designated to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarter of the hour, (ie: 1:15, 1:30, 1:45, et.) total of 72 time slots, 15 minute each.
If you don’t have an account with one of the following web streaming portals, we will provide you with a temp signon/pwd on the day of the event, 2 hours before your scheduled time slot. !! Important !! You will need to let us know what streaming platform you plan to use. UStream and Google+ work well with iPhones and smartphones. We will be posting a ‘PDF” explaining how to navigate any one of these sites to stream you live.
Google+ - UStream - Skype

We will accept pre-recorded vid/music content for some slots, on a limited basis; we'd prefer your live feed! The “eHoot” will also intermittently stream other PFC day performances from around the world. If you'd simply like to tune-in and watch/listen, it will be streaming on this page, as well as: www.catfishfridaymusic.com
www.youtube.com/catfishfridaymusic
https://www.facebook.com/catfishfridaymusic


This event is dedicated to an old friend to many of us singer/songwriters/poets, Fred Giobold, WBAI producer (frontman), the "Light Show," "Snap Cafe" (Speak Easy 80-90s) whose love for music and the Village remains, unprecedented in devotion.

BAH vs BAH

Up until a week ago, I’d never have thought our “BAH” feature at Catfish Friday Music had such formidable and appreciable competition. At Catfish, we BAH, as in – fish or cut the bait. But technically a “BAH,” at CFM, has to do with the process members go through when they “Bait A Hook,” which involves submitting a form that members fill out when soliciting other member’s services within the Catfish Friday Music Community. And the word/term “BAH” on the CFM website, ranks among the highest, next to “music,” keyword density terms used on the entire site.

I found it odd when I launched in early April, that I had a visits and hits from IP addresses registering all over Eastern Europe, Russia, Lithuania, and many from China. And I couldn’t figure out how these folks could be so instantly, BAH crazy, or Catfish fan savvy..? The traffic and hack attempts were nominal, and I only had to restore a few times from back ups.

When researching some of the IP addresses, (insane I know) some of the names of companies didn’t really jump out at me. Many from Mountain View, CA, which is understandable. But some others I found strange, nor could I have imagined why some worldwide multi-conglomerates would be visiting my site, other than, maybe they wanted to join up, work on a tune, BAH, or even invest? Who’d know – two months, two weeks ago. Two of those companies are called, The Carlyle Group, and the other, Booz Allen Hamilton,

So, up until just a few days ago have I been able to “connect the dots,” as we say at CFM, as in “musical” notes between members, but also in the context of how our “BAH,” Bating A Hook, was soon to be in a standoff, branding wise, if not trademark wise, with another formidable BAH cyber entity. While not fully confirmed, I was reading in the NY Times that Booz Allen Hamilton’s major share holder is, none other than, The Carlyle Group.

CFM is presently considering offering both entities, “Golden Hook” lifetime memberships for all their musical staff’s needs, and share the “real” BAH experience where it deserves the most attention, as in “Connecting The Dots Across Town and Beyond,” and making music!
JMPendley

Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin Hopkins (via www.popmatters.com)

Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins

By Timothy J. O'Brien and David A. Ensminger 17 May 2013

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East Texas Cotton Picking Blues

The blues is born with you. When you born in this world, you were born with the blues. Lightnin’ Hopkins, 1967

Hopkins’s rural roots exposed him to what would become his lifelong hobby—fishing: “I was born down by the river, they call it Warren’s Bottom.” “I was born on the banks of the river, that’s the reason I’m a fisherman from my heart. I was born on the banks of the river that’s true, water flowing I guess… Cuz that was on the Red River.” Unfortunately for Sam Hopkins and his family, the calming and lazy flowing river through Leon County did nothing to soothe Abe Hopkins’s wild ways. After he fathered a family, Abe Hopkins continued drinking, gambling, and shooting guns. Sometimes the elder Hopkins’s gambling winnings were paid in cotton. Another time his winnings amounted to a mule and a wagon.

Sam Hopkins might have been old enough to notice friction between his mother and father due to his father’s carousing, because later he recorded a song called “Mama and Papa Hopkins”:

I wonder why my mama don’t love my papa no more
I guess my daddy been doing something wrong…
Oh yea caused my mom’s heart to ruin

In 1915, when Hopkins was about three years old, his father was murdered. Minus a breadwinner, the Hopkinses’ family life quickly became hardscrabble. His mother Frances kept the family mended and supported as best she could, but she soon came to understand the difficulty of feeding and clothing five children all by herself. In addition to the dangerous racial climate, Frances lived in a time when women suffered second-class citizenship. For example, a nearby newspaper, the Grapeland Messenger, carried an item on May 20, 1915, that read, “Hats off to Houston! She is the first city in Texas to start an organized movement against women’s suffrage.” Unfortunately, women like Frances were years away from benefiting from the freedoms promoted and pioneered by suffragettes.

read full excerpt/article here:
Mojo Hand: The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins

Great to announce www.catfishfridaymusic.com site update and online. Please come and visit, participate and make music!  The DAW is rising at Catfish Friday Music.  Connecting the Dots Across Town and Beyond.

Jimmy Lafave great cover of Dylan's "Red River Shore"

Nice!