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How lucky we are to know GREAT COMPANY!
Above, I'm a happy fella with Madame Marie-Marthe Balin Franck Paul in Little Haiti, Miami, January of 2023. after Maryse and I brought computers and JAMBARS for students in Haiti. Photo by Maryse.
Mme. Franck Paul, Maryse's aunt, now 87, is founder and Principal of College Canapé-Vert in Port-au-Prince. Click to visit our Partners in education at stickingupforchildren.com. Again, many are those who do good ... without an iota of A.I.!

Leftward, lights are strung about a Live Oak in New Orleans City Park by a Park volunteer, Christmas-time of 2022. We make these freely adorned lights Symbol for the TRACK-A-DAY feature that's staring on July 30. 2023. Over 100 songs and poems for music have come to me since 1988. What better can I do than give back from the brilliance that partner musicians have delivered?
First track offered on the Sticking Up For Children (SUFC, don't-cha-know?) Jukebox is "Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way)" from Roger Lewis' album ALRIGHT!. We start with three excerpts from Roger, Herlin Riley and Kirk Joseph of the Rivers Answer Moons band and then. come Wednesday July 2, "Bobee ..." with Herlin and me on vocals.


Happy as we may be to enjoy great families and friends, wherever we live, we know by now, July of 2023, that we, the working-class and middle-class people of the world, are under Global
Attack. Those Corporations that lack conscience (the 100 Strategic Partners of the World Economic Forum for prime examples) have embarked from 9/11/01 into " 'COVID-19' " forward
on programs to use Big Lies and 21st-century technologies (technologies that are our classes' inventions) to reduce our freedoms more into mass enslavement or mass 'Sudden Death Syndrome'. Our genius, however, rebels and re-arises with irresistible compassion and creativity. My pieces in the Flipping the Script blog over on the WeAreRevolutions website and pieces on the Stands the Human Being blog and Substack are offerings that combine with many, many--millions unto billions--who REALLY 'Improve' humanity through their insights and resistance.

ALBUMS. Three from I/R Records are among the top 25 Jazz albums charted by Roots Music
ReportS for the year 2022. Listen on Bandcamp and Download in full fidelity there.
The World Economic Forum and its 100 Strategic
Partners among especially exploitative Corporations of the Neo-Colonial world are waging a War Against Humanity that has accelerated over the past four years under covers of " 'COVID' " and " 'Climate Change' ". Call it the WEF WAH for short.
The series of WEF Files profiles, offered here through my Stands the Human Being blog and Substack presents leading Agenda Contributors to the WEF as extremely driven and energetic individuals ... who have become pathological imbeciles in their services to the WEF's global Techno-Fascism, the WEF's 21st-century 'New World Order' of enslavement by Banks of the Northern Hemisphere.
Among the profiled are J. Michael Evans of Ali Baba (and once of Goldman Sachs), Helen Hai of Binance and the United Nations, and more obvious subjects such as Bill Gates, Chrystia Freeland, and Justin Trudeau.

"Prosecute 'Em!", cataloging crimes against masses of
humans during our " 'COVID-19' " era, is part of my
'Stands the Human Being' blog and Substack.
You are one / Light among / Many Lights, / Ever-changing, / Invaluable, / And meant to shine / Ev'ry moment of our lives.
Track-a-Week
"Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way)"
Three instrumental excerpts

Track-a-Week begins with three excerpts from the instrumental version of "Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way)". Herlin Riley is on drums-set, Kirk Joseph on sousaphone, and Roger Lewis on baritone and alto saxophones. What a rich and driving sound of celebration they make here! I'm so lucky to have them with keyboardist Michael Torregano Jr. in the Rivers Answer Moons band!
These peers from New Orleans are, I think, matchless. Jump on these trains!
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Photo by Jake Ricke, Feb. 1, 2022.

Photo by Ryan Hodgson Rigsbee, December 2017.

Photo by Jake Ricke, Feb. 1, 2022.
Bobee walks with eyes straight ahead
Bobee walks with his chin thrust out
Bobee shines like orbs and buttons of brass
Bobee is a lad goin' to earn to his way
What a lyric is that boy
What a man came home from the Corps
What a son plays secrets like his Dad
What a spirit walks that way
Ba-ah-ah-bo-bee
Ba-ah-ah-Ah-Bo-bee!
Herlin sang wordlessly as he and Kirk and Roger and I listened to the playback of "Bobee ..." in the control room of Rick G. Nelson's Marigny. His voice was like the ululations I'd heard from Native American singers, Nilak Butler and Willie Lonewolf, who were appealing to Spirits and/or mourning the lost, while producing albums at the Olde West studio in San Francisco in 1991 and 1992.
"Why don't you add that, Herlin? What you're singing."
"What? Was I singing?"
"Yeah. It's good. Sounds like you were expressing what you hear in the track. It's good! Soulful!"
"I don't know. I didn't even know I was doing anything."
"Why don't you add it? It's very good. See what happens."
Herlin's vocal here is an extension of the love, I think, that went into "Bobee ..." and all of Roger's début album as a leader, ALRIGHT! Roger had written the tune after passing of his first-born son, also named Roger and nicknamed "Bobee"--for whatever reasons Roger can't remember. The son was a shining 21, going through college, a Marine reservist, and then was diagnosed with a rare and untreatable bone-disease that took him within 18 months. Roger's and Kirk's Dirty Dozen Brass Band recorded "Bobe" on the DDBB's 1990 album New Orleans. The son's story, as Roger told it to me in January 2020, and snapshots of him, inspired my lyrics. Jump to Summer 2021, amid " 'COVID-19' ", " 'vaccines' ", and mandatory masking. At practice in the New Orleans Musicians' Union room, the day before our recording in Rick's Marigny studio, Herlin had said, "I think I got something," and delivered to us the astonishing combination of toms, snare, kick-drum and percussion (one person, one drums-set!) that opens the track. Kirk at once picked up with his fitting, charging train of melodic bass-lines.
Roger is born in 1941, Herlin in 1957, and Kirk in 1961. The younger New Orleans' musicians must have known Bobe as a peer. Their feeling for Roger's loss and their liking for his tune's melodies, harmonies and drive give the whole track its soaring lift. Then there was Herlin's voice.
The photo below is by Maryse. It records our joking about the profound language that Herlin had invoked. He'd reached into. I think, his own Church and mother tongues of Spiritualist churches everywhere. And it made everything about "Bobee ..." richer and better.
Again, please click to listen on Bandcamp.

Rick G. Nelson, Roger Lewis, DP, Herlin Riley, and Kirk Joseph, between our recording of
"Bobee (What A Spirit Walks That Way" and Rivers Answer Moons' tribute to Kidd Jordan,
'Maybe You See Horses'. It's August 1, 2021. I hold Cisco Bradley's biography of William Parker, Universal Tonality. Photo by Maryse Philippe Déjean.
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