Showing posts with label Asleep At The Wheel. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Asleep At The Wheel. Show all posts

Monday, November 19, 2018

Music Monday ~ The Third Eye

For the past two Music Mondays 'eye' songs were featured, reflecting my husband's cataract surgery on each of those days. All done now. According to the surgeon, and the optician, very successfully. According to my husband, well...the ol' peepers are still feeling scratchy at times, as though he has eyelash(es) in his eye(s). His distance vision is better though, no longer needs spectacles to watch TV or to drive. Reading glasses are still required, and will be part of a new prescription, but he has to wait for 4 weeks before that can happen, to allow full healing time.

There's an old saying that "things come in threes", so a third 'eye' song today: Cotton Eyed Joe performed here by Asleep at the Wheel. We saw this band some years ago at our local theatre. I still remember, with a chuckle, a joke told by the band's vocalist, Ray Benson. He told the audience that, during the band's tour of Texas, they had stopped in a tiny town with an odd name...I think it was Quitaque, Texas. They visited the town's Dairy Queen restaurant for snacks. While ordering, Ray asked the server, "By the way, how do you pronounce the name of this place?" The answer:
"Dare..ree..Kween".


There's some good fiddle playing here!


Saturday, September 17, 2011

Jupiter's Big Guy Sings & Swings

Our local theatre's performance season kicks off tonight, with a gig by western swing band Asleep At The Wheel. We're looking forward to this. The band originally hailed from West Virginia, but has been based in Austin, Texas for many years. Their current vocalist and co-founder, Ray Benson, is a guy who stands 6 feet 7 inches in his stocking feet, and wears size 16 EEE shoes! I took a quick look at his natal chart (set for 12 noon so ascendant and Moon degree not as shown).

I had to smile. Why?

Look at that - Sun in Pisces (traditionally a Jupiter rulership sign) conjunct Jupiter itself. Sun = self, Jupiter links to expansion, extremes, exaggeration & all things large! This harks back to Thursday's post about appearance and "planetary types".



Choo-Choo Cha Boogie



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