Roy Harper

He had a guest appearance in Pink Floyd's Have A Cigar and Led Zeppellin titled a track in his tribute. Easily one of the greatest folk singers of the time period, he somehow lacks the deserved attention and respect. His music dripping with soul, and some of his ever-changing melodies could bring me to tears.

Check out the strangely titled, Stormcock.

Random tip for finding music ... Use Captrain Crawl, a music mp3 search engine. It will connect the user with blogs that have the album somehow connected to their blog - typically uploaded with Rapidshare, Megaupload, or Mediafire.

An Excerpt from the first page of A Language Older Than Words by Derrick Jensen.

"There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of bodies, of body on body, wind on snow, rain on trees, wave on stone. It is the language of dream, gesture, symbol, memory. We have forgotten this language. We do not even remember that it exists.

In order to maintain our way of living, we must, in a broad sense, tell lies to each other, and especially to ourselves. It is not necessary that the lies be particularly believable. The lies act as barriers to truth. These barriers to truth are necessary because without them many deplorable acts would become impossibilities. Truth must at all costs be avoided. When we do allow self-evident truths to percolate past our defenses and into our consciousness, they are treated like so many hand grenades rolling across the dance floor of an improbably macabre party. We try to stay out of harm's way, afraid they will go off, shatter our delusions, and leave us exposed what we have to the world and to ourselves, exposed as the hollow people we have become. And so we avoid these truths, these self-evident truths, and continue the dance of world destruction."

I highly suggest this author and would advise new readers to start with Endgame. I promise a mind blowing read for the open minded reader...