This was fun stuff, fir sure.
Dave’s Diary
This gem is from 2008
when Ladd Justesen and I lived in an apartment in Clackamas. I always felt grateful to have a decent place to live with my record, and Ladd felt the same way. This is Ladd’s song—a beautiful love song, the kind I’ve never been able to write so far. Laddie does a great job on this.
Here’s another prominent piece from my collection
A very rare Tetela mask from Democratic Republic of Congo. Yesterday, I posted a statue from the same tribe. Both are not similar to anything else that I’ve seen. The provenance is terrific: Jean Paul Agogue of Paris. This is worth a lot of money…but if you want to dip your toes into African tribal art, you’re welcome to visit my warehouse in Eagle Creek, Oregon and/or www.discoverafricanart.com for very reasonable prices. We also are adding outposts around the Portland area.
Found this old thing while perusing through old stuff on my phone.
The Killer Granddaddies did an “acoustic” show using instruments we normally wouldn’t use. Somehow it turned out kinda cool. The song is called “Stop Breaking Down” by the granddaddy of blues, Robert Johnson.
One of my absolute faves, a one-of-a-kind nkisi statue from the the Tetela people of the Democratic Republic of Congo.
I purchased it at the San Francisco Tribal Art Show a couple of years ago.
Another fave from my collection, a superb antique ceremonial mask from the Krahn people of Ivory Coast.
“The Krahn are an ethnic group of Liberia and Ivory Coast. This group belongs to the Kru language family and its people are sometimes referred to as the Wee, Guéré, Sapo, or Wobe. It is likely that Western contact with the Kru language is the primary reason for the development of these different names.”*Wikipedia
Another piece of my absurdly large collection of African art.
This one is a Senufo Kpeli made of copper alloy, which is far less common than those carved in wood.
“The Senufo people, also known as Siena, Senefo, Sene, Senoufo, and Syénambélé, are a West African ethnolinguistic group. They consist of diverse subgroups living in a region spanning the northern Ivory Coast, the southeastern Mali and the western Burkina Faso.”
New Year’s Eve at Patrick Lamb’s NYE ball at the Governor.
We had a ton of tech issues that night, but I think this one turned out ok. Dave and Chrissy Bentley make a cameo.