Sunday music

I am not going to play, "If I Had A Hammer."  I hate that song.  That leaves a lot of choices.  Nine Pound Hammer?  John Henry?  Could John Henry lift Mjolnir?  If I were to play any of those songs, whose versions?  After some consideration, I'm going with a scholarly choice.  One might even say a geeky choice, should we consider music geekery a thing.  Charley Patton, "Hammer Blues."  Why?  So that I can be geeky, and point out that the cover art used here got the spelling wrong.  Charley spelled his name, "Charley."  Not, "Charlie," but, "Charley."  Why do I know this?  I'm a music geek.  Is that, "geek?"  Not in any conventional sense of the term, "geek."  You have to stretch the definition of "geek," or at least, preface it with, "music."  If you just say, "geek," that does not conjure the image of the type of person who knows the correct, obscure spelling of Charley Patton's name.  Instead, it is more proper to say that I am a geek who also happens to be into music.   Just remember:  -ey, not -ie.  And Charley Patton was awesome.


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