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What the Luck? 2008-11-10 21:36:00 “Luck? I don't know anything about luck. I've never banked on it, and I'm afraid of people who do. Luck to me is something else: Hard work -- and realizing what is opportunity and what isn't”.- Lucille Ball: “I don’t believe in luck, but I could sure use some.” – Randy GrangerI’ve been hearing luck attributed to success lately. Roger Moore said on a morning talk show recently that it
Matthew Shepard/James Byrd Jr. song Fly on Home 2008-10-13 13:29:00 Hi everyone. Ten years ago Matthew
Shepard was beaten and tied of a fence in Wyoming where he died of his injuries. The men who killed him said he was gay and deserved it. That same year James
Byrd Jr. was beaten and dragged behind pickup truck with a rope and also died from his injuries in Texas. Byrd was an African American. Both of these introduced the idea of a "hate crime" to many Americans.I
New Mexico Magazine CD Review for A Place Called Peace. 2008-09-21 10:46:00 Here is a new review for A Place
Called Peace
appearing in the October issue of New MexicoMagazine
. I'm grateful for the positive coverage in such a wide reaching and respected magazine. As with anything that appears in print a couple of things to point out: I was a "workshop presenter" and performer at the 2008 INAFA Convention and have never called myself "Mix" Granger.RandyRandy Granger, Read more:New Mexico
What is Za Zee Za Zu Zing? 2008-09-11 15:23:00 The opening track on my new album A Place Called Peace is a song called Za Zee Za Zu Zing. It is a fun song with vocals, djembe, Native American flute and Hang drum. The chorus is the nonsensical phrase Za Zee Za Zu Zing which really doesn't mean anything that I'm aware of. I was playing around on my Hang and came up with a melody and heard the djembe part and the singing etc. Sometimes the words
A New Day for Peace or Bored with Barack? 2008-09-01 22:04:00 Maybe it is a new day for us in the U.S. I know many of MySpace friends are in other countries. Barack
Obama was nominated as the presidential candidate for the Democratic Party at their convention tonight. It was the 45th anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s “I have a dream” speech at the foot of the Lincoln Memorial in our capital. What is remarkable to me is that we had a woman and Read more:Bored
, New Day
, Peace
Chicago Tribune write up. 2008-08-20 08:56:00 www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0817-fairiesaug17,0,1393770.storychicagotribune.comAll's fairyFestival brings the sprites out of hiding and reveals their secrets (who knew they loved pickles?)By William HagemanChicagoTribune
reporterAugust 17, 2008On a beautiful summer weekend, under a canopy of oak trees at Vasa Park in South Elgin, the fairy people gathered.Hundreds of them, many Read more:Chicago Tribune
Ghost Dancers video. 2008-08-18 10:29:00 This is "GhostDancers
" is from my new album 'A Place Called Peace.' The song was inspired by the Ghost Dance religion that tragically led to the Wounded Knee Massacre. Indian people at that time in the 1890's were having it hard. Hunger, disease, despair and extreme poverty was the story of the day. A new religion that came to the Pauite Shaman Wokova said by praying, meditating, chanting and dan Read more:video
Dog Days of Touring, Poem. And Friends or Fans? 2008-08-18 10:15:00 Ah the Dog Days of summer are here in the southwest with long sultry days and occasional thunder-head clouds that look like huge cotton candy icebergs above the Organ Mountains. The green chilie is finally being harvested after too much rain kept fields muddy as cake batter. I’m happy to be home for just a while after tours that resemble long-haul trucker routes. It’s funny that I’ve been th Read more:Friends
, Touring
Dancing to keep the lights on. Illinois gig travelblog. 2008-08-09 11:05:00 “I’m just one little Indian/Dancing
to keep the lights onOne little Indian/Singing to light the skyJust one little Indian/Dreaming of the old waysOne little Indian/Looking for the Red Road home”—Randy GrangerI’m back in New Mexico from a Midwest gig trip and appreciating the drier climate, bigger vistas and Green Chilie. This trip took me up to South Elgin, Illinois
to perform at the Wor
Ego? What Ego? 2008-07-27 21:21:00 Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being. - Goethe I always try to believe the best of everybody -- it saves so much trouble. Rudyard Kipling: I’ve been thinking about Ego this week. Ego has come up on my tour where I witnessed some exploding Egos, an Ego self-destruct before my eyes and had a radio interviewer project t
Wisonsin Road Trip - INAFA Convention 2008-07-17 09:13:00 Well about two weeks ago I set out on a tour that would end up in Wisconsin at the 2008 International Native American and World Flute Association convention. I was driving so set up a couple of gigs along the way to break up the 23-hour drive. First night I stopped at the KOA in Amarillo, Texas. It was pleasant except that it is wedged between the railroad lines and the airport. I played my flute Read more:Convention
Notes from a Desert Pied Piper 2008-06-29 09:30:00 Nothing like being on the road to give you an appreciation for home. This week began attending a memorial for a friend who died suddenly of a massive heart attack in his living room. His memorial was on a late afternoon in their back yard and art studio. It was so hot and we were all squishing around the shade like delicate plants. What was amazing was how he navigated so many different crowds her Read more:Desert
, Notes
Zion Canyon Bound 2008-06-29 09:25:00 Well as I sometimes do I like to start by saying it is so hot here. It has been in the low 100’s for the past week with a steady wind and at sometimes a downright gust accompanied by so much dust and grit it could sand blast a tree bare. People say well at least it’s a dry heat to which I respond—you mean like an oven or a blow dryer? I was driving outside of El Paso yesterday when the h Read more:Bound
, Canyon
Adventures in Gigging 2008-06-29 09:12:00 For a while I had a quote from writer John Updike as my email signature it goes: “Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.” I would take that further to say that is what an artist does. I’d like to think of myself as an artist because with every song, every performance and every recording is an attempt to communicate MY experience in life, Read more:Adventures
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