Last night I drove to Leamington Spa to see Nanci Griffith in concert. She was absolutely brilliant. Like the rest of us getting older with her hair turned grey and looking for all the world like a middle aged school teacher - not surprising I suppose because she was once a teacher.
But when she starts to sing….. She has a new CD out which the tour was promoting and which I already have. It has some great songs on it and the title track in particular is amazing - called ‘The Loving Kind’ - it is about a mixed race couple who married in Virginia in the 1950s and were sent to jail! Believe it or not this was against the law in that state at the time. They fought it through the courts and won in the end and the law was changed. Just makes one reflect that despite the things we bitch about a lot has changed for the better in our life times.
And the surname of the couple was Loving - how poignant is that!
Darling,
You’re such an old romantic. I shed a tear as I read about the Lovings now I need comforted. Maybe Nanci could write a similiar romantic song for the Darlings! (Alastair and his wife).
Love
Pen!
What the *****is this!!!!!….. Now its the bleedin Peoples Friend. !!!!! Bleedin “poignant”….. eh!!!!! Wot about the ” hard hitting ” “voice of the common man” “brought up in a caravan in Romford” ” never saw a banana until I was 19″ ” Can hardly read or right but I made a fortune with the trust me I’m an IT guru scam”. Gawd…Don’t know about anyone else but I’m moving to the BNP blog…….a bit left wing , namby pamby, floral shirted, Guardian reading and limp wristed I know but closer to what we was promised. Bring back Oswald Mosley.
‘arry
Just to say I loved your blog…….so sensitive and gentle. Babs
I’ve recently been tracing my family history and understand that you may have information re my grandfather Loving Spoonfull who had a major hit with ” What a day for a daydream”. Could you please confirm this.
and I believe we have the offspring in the White House…the world is wonderful…I’m touched.