Wednesday, December 28, 2011

Mean Mister Brownsville

Mean Mister Brownsville
http://meanmisterbrownsville.blogspot.com/


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Damn Right, Brownsville Has the Blues!
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<div><h2 class="uiHeaderTitle">&nbsp;</h2></div><div class="clearfix"><div class="mbs uiHeaderSubTitle lfloat fsm fwn fcg">by <a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100001338858387">Jim Barton</a> on Wednesday, December 28, 2011 at 2:11am</div><div class="uiHeaderSubActions rfloat"></div></div><div class="mbl notesBlogText clearfix"><div><img alt="" class="photo_img img" src="http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/378748_269516883102938_100001338858387_691976_738315745_n.jpg" /><span class="caption"></span>\<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Like a sharecropper letting his voice rise and fall, then break into a falsetto with a field holler crying about the overseer, the heat or the thirst, &nbsp;Jerry Mchale has much to cry about in his new blog <em>Brownsville Blues.&nbsp; </em>The first edition of the new blog is expected <em>anno domini </em>2012, coincidentally during the same calendar year ancient Mayans hinted might be our last on planet Earth.<br />&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<img alt="" class="photo_img img" src="http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/383081_269516936436266_100001338858387_691977_309038120_n.jpg" /><span class="caption"></span><br /><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Early bluesmen were actually verbal bloggers as they chronicled the highs and lows of life, mostly the lows.&nbsp; Joan Baez, the greatest hispanic folk singer of all time, cleared up one misconception:&nbsp; "You don't have to be black to sing the blues, " she wrote years ago.&nbsp;</div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><span class="caption"></span>&nbsp; </div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/394748_269523843102242_100001338858387_692007_294845287_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" border="0" class="photo_img img" src="http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/394748_269523843102242_100001338858387_692007_294845287_n.jpg" /></a></div><div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"><br /></div>Another misconception is that you have to go down Highway 61 in Mississippi to where it intersects with Highway 49, but that's a lie.&nbsp; There is just as devilish a crossroad where the Eddie Lucio, Jr.&nbsp;Highway crosses Paredes Line Road with a 68 cent overpass.&nbsp; Most of us avoid the demons by taking the free access road.&nbsp;</div></div><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4696772328771334084-5779347276018897694?l=meanmisterbrownsville.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>
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