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  FREE FACE IN A HOT ZONE

July 4th, 2021
by Glenda S Wallace
Brandi Carlile's music gives me chills,
and on July 2nd clinging to a grassy slope in a concert bowl
along the Blackfoot River of Montana
amid a heatwave baking the Northwest
(Come on! 116 in Portland, Oregon! ...
where I first saw Brandi live)
well, let's just say
chills were welcome.

Like a kid, I squealed when The Joke began:
Piano and violin and, then, her voice
calling us to mind the moment
when the movie ends and we're surprised
when the underdog wins.
The American dream.

Countless stars overhead.
More than 600,000 Covid dead
and a mutating virus that too many
believe is no worse than the flu,
I sang my heart out with a crowd
free of masks,
immune from guilt,
and full of hope
that we had moved beyond
petty human limitations.
We were gifted together
with a night of song
long deferred.

Too soon, she gave the last bow
in her first show for more than a year
and we clapped and hooted and howled
'til our energy ebbed and the stagehands emerged.
The family from Colorado -- two little blonde girls 
with an attentive stoic father and a mom who
called herself a stalker of Brandi Carlile --
they had tickets for Saturday
and maybe they'd do Sunday, too, she said,
since they had come so far.
 
On the crowded walk to our car,
two in my party donned masks.
Thoughts of foolishness flitted.
Who was I to rely on a vaccine,
another wash of the hands,
and a prayer?

The heatwave continues.

Onward...

GSW




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THE JOKE


"Don't ever let them steal your joy
And your gentle ways
To keep 'em from running wild
They can kick dirt in your face
Dress you down, and tell you that your place
Is in the middle, when they hate the way you shine
I see you tugging on your shirt
Trying to hide inside of it
And hide how much it hurts
Let 'em laugh while they can
Let 'em spin, let 'em scatter in the wind
I have been to the movies, I've seen how it ends
And the joke's on them
."

Lyrics from 2017 Brandi Carlile Song "The Joke." Below is a video of her amazing Grammy performance.




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