#Scarlet begonias sublime professional

Janis, of course, came out of Port Arthur (TX), where she was a misfit bullied by the other kids for hanging out with black kids and singing like Bessie Smith (she left Port Arthur first chance she got)

#Scarlet begonias sublime professional

Garcia was the son of a big band jazz musician and his early professional work was as a banjoist with bluegrass and folk groups on the SF coffee house scene Lesh trained professionally as an avant garde jazz musician in Berkeley before joining the Warlocks/Dead but McKernan was into blues and R and B, and down in Monterey/Carmel his dad had been the only white DJ at an R and B-oriented radio station. Interesting because Pigpen and Janis both were so important to the SF music scene as it developed 1965-70, but both preferred alcohol to acid (both only took acid 1-2 times voluntarily, then by accident when people slipped it into their drinks), both were 'into the blues,' both died too young (part of the '27 club' that also includes Morrison, Hendrix, Brian Jones, and Kurt Cobain), both were working class white kids who never lost their working class roots or became very 'hippy dippy' (both liked to hang out with bikers, which is about as white working class as you could get in California in the '60s). The wind in the willows played tea for two Or scarlet begonias or a touch of the blues Well, there ain't nothing wrong with the way she moves In the strangest of places if you look at it right It seldom turns out the way it does in the song She was too pat to open and too cool to bluff In the thick of the evening when the dealing got rough She was not like other girls, other girls She had rings on her fingers and bells on her shoesĪnd I knew without asking she was into the blues Not a chill to the winter but a nip to the airįrom the other direction she was calling my eyeīut I might as well try, might as well try