Friday, August 29, 2014

For Labor Day: Luke Kelly and Winslow Homer

I love songs about work--about old fashioned, dangerous, beautiful, strenuous toil using skills refined and passed down through generations. The late Irish singer Luke Kelly delivers one of my favorites unsurpassably, I think.


And Winslow Homer's "The Herring Net."




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4 comments:

  1. Story Of A SeedSeptember 2, 2014 at 9:28 PM

    Hi Melissa,

    I just wanted to thank you for your kind words of appreciation and concern on my blog storyofaseed. Thanks you very much, I was feeling a bit overwhelmed and tired but doing well now.
    You have a very wonderful blog, keep up the good work!
    japneet

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    1. anthemsweetSeptember 3, 2014 at 11:38 AM

      Thank you, Japneet. I am glad you're doing well now.

      Melissa

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  2. Linda HensleySeptember 8, 2014 at 6:59 AM

    I like working songs too -- which doesn't mean I actually want to work like they did. I like the way you paired it with Homer's herring fishing too :)

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    1. anthemsweetSeptember 11, 2014 at 7:35 AM

      No, I don't really want to work like that either, but it seems ennobling to me, somehow--the hard, skilled physical work, but in a small, independent business. Perhaps I romanticize and idealize.

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