And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Friday, March 17, 2023
25-year-old Cab Calloway photographed by Carl Van Vechten on January 12, 1933.
St. James’ Infirmary Blues remains one of the coolest tunes ever written.
ReplyDelete25? He looks as old as I am and I'm 70.
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ReplyDeleteCab got his style from his sister Blanche. My wife collaborated with his daughter on occasion.
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