On Feb 20, 2015 11:03 AM, "Russell Reiter" <rreiter91@gmail.com> wrote:
... 1st FRET VESTPOL
I approve of this reference, though of course the *true* conspiracy theorist will immediately see the link between: 1) Vestpol, or Vestapol, guitar tuning (D A D F# A D, or Open D) much used in southern acoustic blues; 2) Vestapol March, one of those blues numbers played in Open D. Also known variously as the Sylvester Poole March, Sevastopol March, or The March on Sebastopol - a particularly delicate piece of parlour music popular in the later 19th century, commemorating some event or other in the Crimean War; 3) Sevastopol, location of current unpleasantness between Ukraine and Russia. So those refined society ladies plucking their gut-string banjos and the bluesmen with names composed of $AFFLICTION $FRUIT $DEAD_PRESIDENT all knew that Putin's actions were long foretold ... I am folk, hear me process.* Stewart *: not mine, alas; one of Peter Stampfel's.