A Perfect Smoke

[cstephen]

the gardens first cut of the year.

Bright blue sky, brilliant warm sunshine, a good cup of coffee, my beat up alco and a fill of amphora full aroma.
perfect first light, cool bowl and smokes right to the bottom, my perfect smoke.
Apart from a snifter of spirits, what could be better?

 

[johnbarleycorn]

And the Jam - Sound Affects album and you have perfection.

 

[cstephen]

good choice but when im in a mellow mood, i like a bit of Hendrix or Simon and garfunkel

 

[dottiewarden]

You got it cstephen, I love when it all just comes together and reminds us why we actually smoke pipes in the first place.

 

[unkleyoda]

The Who, Quadrophenia.

 

[johnbarleycorn]

^ yeah that.

 

[mso489]

Elizabeth Cotten, Etta Baker, and John Prine often do it for me, if there's music involved.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

+1 MSO, John Prine is my all time favorite artist. I'll add some Iris Dement to the stack.

 

[warren]

John Prine is a gem of a writer with a deep feeling for human failure which he addresses with a great sense of humor. I even prefer his post-cancer voice. Yup! He's a oner!
Favorite tune? "Speed of the Sound of Loneliness"

 

[peckinpahhombre]

Prine is awesome. Nothing puts me in a mood to smoke a pipe more than Leonard Cohen, however. Thankfully, Mr. Cohen also puts me in the mood to drink.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

If you like Prine, and you have a warped sense of humor... like me. Check out Dan Reeder. He was discovered by Prine, he cracks me up, especially https://danreeder.bandcamp.com/album/dan-reeder

 

[thomasw]

Hehe, I enjoy Dan Reeder, too.

 

[johnbarleycorn]

I just love how threads can veer off course like this. Or on course depending on how you look at it.

 

[mso489]

I go on Leonard Cohen binges. His biography is well worth the read. He was Jewish by birth, spent much of his adulthood training as a Buddhist, including in his sixties time spent in arduous training at a Buddhist monastery designed for physically fit young people mostly. I loved his quote, struggling to make one of his later marriages work, when it didn't. He said the most difficult and demanding religious practice in all of his life was marriage. Though he had several children, his marriages never did work. I made a Cohen pilgrimage to Montreal for my sixtieth.
John Prine was reared a ways down Cumberland Avenue from my home place in Park Ridge, in the suburb of Maywood, home of Chicagoland's largest zoo, Brookfield, and Maywood harness racing track. Now in at his older age, after some serious illness, he looks like a salty complex character out of a Dickens novel, an amazing stage presence. We saw him in concert in North Carolina, and were most moved.

 

[npod]

Love this tangeant. I have learned new reading to explore.
This is a great tribute to John Prine by Bill Murray, one of my heros.

https://youtu.be/FDpZCZPMRJ8
True story ... I saw Leonard Cohen in concert just a year before he passed. He was as amazing then as he was when I saw him the first time in 1991. One of my favorite artists.

 

[weezell]

Saw Prine live back in the 70S. Great show in a small venue...