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Saw a
documentary,
Singing Our Stories, about Native women preserving the traditional musics of North America's
indigenous peoples. (Which reminds me of a letter from
Professor Heretic on the subject of the
blues; I'll post it if I can get permission from him). Cool stuff, but the last part was a ringer of sorts: the trio Walela -
Rita Coolidge, a.k.a. Walela (the former Mrs.
Kris Kristofferson?), and her sister Priscilla (the former Mrs.
Booker T. Jones), plus Priscilla's daughter Laura. They were surely there for their Star Power (such as it is - it ain't 1975 any more), since it would just be a dry NFB documentary without them, or, worse, it wouldn't have received adequate funding to begin with. But their segment fit in with the
title of the
film (since it connects with their
Cherokee background in Tennessee) if not the
spirit of it. The Coolidge sisters still sing wonderfully, BTW, as does TNG.
Yes, breakfast was a turkey-and-mashed-potato omelet. Not a rousing culinary success, but it tasted OK. Remember: the best disasters are edible ones.