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Epidemic Continues: Iraq Vet with PTSD Kills Self, Brother
Posted May 17, 2008 | 11:23 AM (EST)

The epidemic of suicides among veterans of the Iraq war with PTSD has become so common that I sat down to write about two news ones today and end up writing about an even more recent, and shocking, one. It involves a decorated vet who wrote about his PTSD for the Marine Corps Gazette-- and this week killed himself and his brother after a long police chase in Arizona.

Police have discovered no motive for the killings, nor why the brothers earlier in the week may have planned to commit suicide by driving into the Grand Canyon -- Thelma and Louise style.

Staff Sgt. Travis Twiggs, 36, who enlisted in the Marine Corps in 1993 and held the combat action ribbon -- and met President Bush a few weeks ago -- wrote a lengthy article in the January issue of the Marine Corps Gazette detailing his efforts to deal with post-traumatic stress disorder. He loved his country so much he named a daughter America, The Arizona Republic reports today.

His brother was Willard J. Twiggs, age 38.

too much!....almost can't take it, come back wolf.

One of the best things about Ohio and rock music:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2LWN9_kypU0 - Guided By Voices - Teenage FBI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eCWyLPmT1PQ - Guided By Voices - The Brides have Hit Glass

Check out the killer rhythm section groove on this video of "Shake It For Me."

This is how it got from Muddy Waters to James Brown.

Howlin' Wolf - guitar
Hubert Sumlin - guitar
Willie Dixon - Bass
Sunnyland Slim - Piano
Clifton James - Drums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ux6N00CwudA

Outstanding.

The new Howlin' Wolf.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2GA3a15xF0c

Crooks and liars is a major blog that makes money from ads. Blatantly pirating pundit videos may have some vaguely noble political cause, but what possible justification is there for day on day, week on week, month on month blatant music piracy? Given the large traffic to this site and its ad supported nature, this is by any standard criminal copyright infringement. The owners of this site must surely know this, and furthermore they must realize that it gives ammunition to this site's political critics.

JUST STOP IT ALREADY. It is illegal and plain wrong. Stick to politics.

Howlin' Wolf and my daughter share a birthday!!!

cboy @ 15:

MacDaKnife @ 9:

Anyone know if Sam Lay and Jerome Arnold played on this cut?

I do believe Sam Lay played drums on this session, but if it is the same one I am thinking of Willie Dixon played bass. Of course, as us blues hounds know, both Lay and Arnold were also the great rhythm section behind (many of the best recordings by) Paul Butterfield.

Thanks for the info! When Paul formed his band, he hired away Sam and Jerome from Wolf. I just was not sure when this was cut. From "Bad Talking Bluesman" by Nick Gravenites.

".... the owner of Big John's remembered Paul from when he sat in with Bloomfield, and he was calling to ask Paul if he wanted the gig. Paul was agonizing over what to do and he called Sam Lay and Jerome Arnold, Howlin' Wolf's rhythm section, and asked them if the were interested in joining his group for some steady gigging. Sam and Jerome were all for it because it meant that they would be getting paid some union money, something they weren't getting playing for the Wolf, plus they really enjoyed playing with Paul.

The money was important. It was no fun being a sideman in a bluesband, you had to keep your day job. The big blues stars like Howlin Wolf, Muddy Waters, as great in their art as they were, didn't pay diddley. The ugliest word on a musicians lips was "raise."

White blues players helped change the system, they didn't know any better, they paid everybody the same. Getting the money into the musicians hands was important. The great men of the music business, the ones with the mansions and the jet planes, those smiling faces you see in Billboard Magazine, living on the forty-fourth floor, they got their millions from musicians and songwriters, creative artists, usually by screwing them bad. There were so many rip-offs, double and triple dealing schemes, copyright thefts, crimes of omission and commission, that if you heard of some musician drowning in their own vomit, like, say, Jimi Hendrix, you'd know it was a fitting reaction to a bad situation. Pardon my spleen, but I feel like an endangered species, I feel the crosshairs on my back and the hair risin' on my head.

I would give a great deal to have been in Chicago during the early-mid '60's. The talent there was absolutely incredible. Every night of the week the city was on fire, with music being played by the men and women who are the legends of blues.

I love this cut too, but before calling Howlin' Wolf it's writer, check out "Stop and Listen Blues," recorded by the Mississippi Sheiks in the 1930s. "Smokestack Lightning" is pretty much a cover of that cut. The Sheiks were hugely popular when Howlin' Wolf was coming up, their biggest hit, "Sitting on Top of the World" was covered by many others, including Robert Johnson. I don't mean to diminish Howlin' Wolf, I just want to bring attention to the great number of really wonderful pre-electric blues recordings. American popular music has a deeper history then is commonly known.

I didn't understand why all the industrial images in this montage until I realized that perhaps there was a lack of understanding what "smokestack lightning" is.

According to Marshall Chess, son of the owner of Chess Records who was in his teens in the mid to late 50s and now has a one hour weekly radio show on Sirius Radio, smokestack lighting was slang for the sparks coming out of the smokestack of a locomotive and streaming by the windows of an express train and this song is about traveling.

If you like Howlin' Wolf, you GOTTA check out this book here--

http://www.bleakhousebooks.com/backlist/ChasingtheWolf.htm

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