After I got home from the trip to Sackville and calmed down, I watched the last part of American Idol. For those of you who watch the show, how often do they get auditions by people who apparently want to be various musical instruments when they grow up? Because in Season One or Two there was a dude who sang the bagpipe arrangement of "Amazing Grace" (I pointed that out on the TWoP board and got referenced in Shack's recap, yay!) And last night there was the dreadlocked dude who sang one line over and over in this weird vibrato ("Leave me alone"--none of the judges ran with it, as far as I could see) and I kept thinking, "this reminds me of something..."

And them I realized it was this:



Truly. And when I tried to explain it to my office mate, I got as far as "Dude sounded like a mouth harp!" and my office mate replied, "The guy with the dreads? I saw him!" So she had the same thought, which has to mean something.

Stick to Buffy for your mouth-harp needs, though. The guy on Idol was just peculiar.

Okay, there is no video for this song. So open it, turn up your speakers, and then do something on another browser window while you listen to this.



And this one (the video is composed of still photos but the song rocks.) When I taught in Metepenagiag I spent years looking for an album with this song on it for my class. I finally found it as a reissued CD a couple of years after I left teaching:



I like Buffy a lot, but I particularly like some of the "powwow remixes" she's done of her older stuff.

In other news, last night I discovered Mitzi enjoys it when I sing "Indian Cowboy" to her. Well, of course she does!