Horton Bridge (Tuesday 20th June 2023)

The rain finally arrived here last night, complete with thunder, so by morning my water-butt was refilled, and there is more rain this evening, so I have been out in it transferring water into a second butt.

I crossed town this afternoon to try out the new Asda Express that opened last month, but first I drove onwards to the canal at the Bridge Inn near Little Horton to try out some different modes with my new Lumix and sat on a bench seat to read for half-an-hour.

Summer doesn't begin until the solstice tomorrow afternoon so the narrowboat in Extras has slightly jumped the gun, but the presence of yellow flag irises meant I had to snap it. The cranesbills (Geranium maculatum) in the Blip are for Miranda1008's Wild Flower Week, with thanks.

L.
Tuesday 20.6.2023 (2149 hr)

Blip #3907 (#3657 + 250 archived blips taken 27.8.1960-18.3.2010)
Consecutive Blip #000
Blips/Extras In 2024 #114/265 + #066/100 Extras
Day #4832 (1115 gaps from 26.3.2010)
Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day #3047 (#2887 + 160 in archived blips)

Taken with Panasonic/Leica DC-LX100M2 M4/3 compact

Wildflowers series
Horton Bridge series
Outdoor Places I Have Sat In series
Kennet and Avon Canal series
Canals series

Lozarithm's Lozarhythm Of The Day:
Eddie Floyd - 634-5789 (Soulsville, USA) (Original Demo) (recorded 1965, Memphis TN)
A thud on the doormat meant that the latest eagerly awaited edition of Mojo magazine had arrived, and with it was the cover CD Stax Uncovered, previewing 15 previously unheard demo recordings from the Stax team of songwriters that were then recorded by their roster of artists. All will feature on a 7CD box set entitled Written In Their Soul. Nearly all the songs were known to me as a Stax and Motown aficionado but not in these forms, which I found fascinating. Some were finished recordings that were somehow not released but most were very basic with little more than a vocal and a guitar, as is this version of 634-5789, written by staff guitarist and member of the MG's, Steve Cropper, and the singer Eddie Floyd, prior to his massive hit with Knock On Wood.  The ensuing album of the same name included his finished version of 634-5789.
Wilson Pickett of course had the honour of recording the first finished version, which went out on another label, Atlantic, but it was also recorded by Otis Redding for his Stax record The Soul Album. The phone number is the same one that the Marvelettes used for their single Beechwood 4-5789.

One year ago:
The Front Yard