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Johnny Cash reads the handwriting on the wall

The six-year-old was learning about Belshazzar, the king of Babylon, in Sunday School, so I gave him some supplemental educational material: A straightforward retelling of the story from the Book of Daniel by Johnny Cash, accompanied by the Carter Family and the Statler Brothers. At the beginning of the video,...

Posted by Michael Bates on November 25, 2012 10:38 PM

Satchmo: Basin Street Blues and Blue Yodel No. 9

A while back I told you about an Oklahoma Jazz Hall of Fame exhibit about American jazz musicians touring the world as cultural ambassadors during the Cold War. The exhibit has since moved on, but you can see it online: Jam Session: America's Jazz Ambassadors. Here's Louis Armstrong (born on...

Posted by Michael Bates on August 4, 2010 10:06 AM