Thursday, March 21, 2019

Happy Feet Friday

The one and only Louis Armstrong, with "Blues in the South".




Bonus item! Now, Armstrong, like many musicians of his day and age (and, for that matter, like many musicians in every day and age since) liked to smoke a little weed from time to time. He once came close to getting caught in Customs, but was inadvertently saved by, of all people, Richard Nixon. Read all about it in this hilariously titled old post from The Daily Caller: "WHEN TRICKY DICK MULED WEED FOR AMBASSADOR SATCHMO".

4 comments:

bruce said...

Beautiful. Love Louis' voice and trumpet at every stage of his career. Like the slow soulful clarinet and trombone too.

Paco said...

I almost always smile when I hear Armstrong's voice. It's just so unique, familiar and somehow reassuring.

Jonah said...

I wonder if J.S. Bach smoked weed.

Paco said...

I picture him as more of an opium fiend.