cf. “Before and After” (Photo-Play World, 1918)
Love on the line, it’s now or never.
Tag: guitars
Love Is Strong
at the music store, August, 1979
Benjamin Balázs, “Where My Heart Belongs…”
at the music store, August, 1979
I had to reach way up
rosewood,
sunburst,
cigarette burn—the salesman plugged it into a Pignose
the sun was streaming in through the windows
He gave me an imitation tortoise-shell pick
my index finger pressed across
e
a
c#
a circuit closed
on the way home
the late summer afternoon sun was starting to set
I rolled down the car window and
reached for the Pat Travers 8-track tape on the passenger seat
–J.S.
Hot love if you want it
cf. Jakub Schikaneder, Company on the Terrace (1887)
To a Skylark
Hail to thee, blithe spirit!
Bird thou never wert—
That from heaven or near it
Pourest thy full heart
In profuse strains of unpremeditated art.Higher still and higher
From the earth thou springest,
Like a cloud of fire;
The blue deep thou wingest,
And singing still dost soar, and soaring ever singest…
–Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark (excerpt)
Barracuda
cf. Gerard ter Borch the Younger, A Woman Playing the Theorbo-Lute and a Cavalier (ca. 1658)
Groovy Train
Geo. R. Lawrence Co., “A tourist sleeper musical” (ca. 1905)
There Goes Another Love Song
Elin Kleopatra Danielson-Gambogi, Winter Night (detail) (oil on canvas) (1898-1899)
There goes another love song
Someone singing about me again
There goes another love song
Now I need more than a friend…
Rockin’ into the night
Your Wind Song stays on my mind
Don’t call us, we’ll call you
cf. Théo Van Rysselberghe, The Lecture (1903)
“Things as they are are changed upon the blue guitar.”
cf. Alan Lomax, Bill Tatnall, with guitar, Frederica, Georgia (1935)
They said, “You have a blue guitar,
You do not play things as they are.”
The man replied, “Things as they are
Are changed upon the blue guitar…”
–Wallace Stevens, “The Man with the Blue Guitar”
Serenade
John Sapiro 