Please Take a Few Minutes and Watch This
July 7, 2009
I’m not breaking my hiatus, but you need to take the time to watch this, particularly on the week when a big to-do was made over the funeral of a pop singer. Sergeant First Class John C. Beale was killed in action the first week of June, and after arriving at Falcon Field in Peachtree City, Georgia, the body was escorted by the Henry County PD to the funeral home in McDonough, Georgia. The procession route was made known in advance. Please, please watch.
Remembering Jim Freeman
July 3, 2009
Thirty-five years ago, Roanoke lost a music legend in Jim Freeman. Today, his grandson has found a couple of never-recorded Freeman original songs and is bringing them to life. Read about it in today’s Roanoke Times…
And hear Jim Freeman…
Radio station WSLC-AM paid tribute to bluegrass singer Jim Freeman after he died on July 4, 1974. Thirty-five years later, his grandson, John “J.D.” Sutphin, is performing songs his grandfather wrote and songs he covered — including this one, “Swing Low Sweet Chariot.” Freeman performs here with the Bluegrass Cavaliers.
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
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