Daily Archives: February 10, 2026

Who Or What Is A “Nancy Guthrie”?

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... and what's so special about her that she gets days upon days of national news coverage?

Has no one else had horrific crimes committed against them in the past few days?

Is there nothing else more important going on in the nation or world that national column inches must be filled with yet another personal crime?

Does she have damning information on Hillary Clinton?

Are there no people of national prominence that should better receive national column inches of coverage of their arrests and convictions?

Yeah, I know I could look "Nancy Guthrie" up ... but why should I bother?

We've already lost, doncha know?

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Twofer Tunesday: Dazed & Confused

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A sample of some obscure - and maybe not obscure - tunes from my strange and off-the-wall collection.

Today's double selection: Dazed & Confused: Jake Holmes, Yardbirds 1967

Jake Holmes
Yardbirds

Most wouldn't even think that this wasn't a Led Zeppelin song but it was written by Jake Holmes as an acoustic piece in 1967. Holmes opened for the Yardbirds at a concert in New York. The Yardbirds drummer liked the song, bought the Holmes LP and played it for the rest of the band. Jimmy Page tweaked it a bit, added a bit of guitar work, and the Yardbirds started performing the song themselves although they never recorded it in a studio.

In 1968, Jimmy Page had formed a new group called Led Zeppelin and after additional tweaking, the song was released on the group's first album - without credit to Jake Holmes - and was usually on the playlist at Led Zeppelin concerts.

Holmes filed copyright infringement lawsuits and the case was finally settled "with prejudice" in 2012. The song is now released as "By Page - Inspired by Jake Holmes". The song is the most played of the Zeppelin song list.

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