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THE SPLENDID BOHEMIANS PRESENT "DOUBLE TROUBLE" - STAYING HYDRATED WITH MARTY ROBBINS AND THE REVEREND AL GREEN. DOUBLE DOWN!!

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DT: STAYING HYDRATED WITH MARTY ROBBINS AND REV. AL GREEN

H2O - we can’t live without it. As the temperatures rise, physically and spiritually, you better keep plenty of the life giving elixir handy. The human body contains over 50% of the stuff, the earth- about 70 percent. It’s all around; within and without us.

From the book of symbols:

“River is vital fluidity: the rivers move through both the upper world and the lower world, over ground and underground, inside and outside: rivers of fertility and prosperity, rivers of forgetting, rivers of binding oath, rivers of commerce, rivers of blood and rivers of water, rivers of rebirth, rivers of death, rivers of sorrow…”

Two streams of much needed refreshment will be delivered by Marty Robbins and the Rev. Al Green today; dip in and be baptized.

MARTY ROBBINS / COOL WATER

Cool Water had been around for about 20 years when Marty Robbins included the song in his 1959 album Gunfighter Ballads and Trail Songs, which also featured the hit “El Paso”. It was written by Bob Nolan, founding member of The Sons of the Pioneers, and had been covered many many times. But, nestled here, among the other songs that comprise this formidable concept album, it takes on a mythic resonance. As Marty urges his parched mule, Dan forward through the unending desert, his emotion choked voice cries out for an oasis of redemption.

REVEREND AL GREEN / TAKE ME TO THE RIVER

The Reverend Al Green became fully ordained in 1976, two years after he wrote and recorded this soul classic. In 1974, with the assistance of production wizard Willie Mitchell, he created this toe tapping ode to spirituality and lust. Al must have had an premonition of the rebirth that was about to occur, because’74 was also the year that his peccadillos came home to roost: when he was scalded by hot grits, wielded by suicidal, ex-lover, Mary Woodson.

And, this cut contains both the sacred and the profane in equal measure - not explicitly, but in the hip chugging funk juxtaposed with the call for baptismal relief. Rock n Roll has been called “The Devil’s Music:” Al may have strayed, but has since devoted himself to the gospel of rehabilitation.

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