On how this might relate to Dr. Farrell’s site and his broad perspective, I would say that Mr. Lafarge is an example par excellence of someone owning the culture. Listening to his music can be like stepping into another time. Yet its no gimmick: Pokey absolutely lives like you see him. Besides the many years spent steeped in traditional jazz and old American musical forms to get where he is (not even to speak of his top notch band), he is a great advocate of honoring great traditions, of craftsmanship (as opposed to our throwaway trash culture), of more meaningful ways of life than the manufactured ones we’re conditioned to accept. And his owning of the culture is infectious: his live shows are often like going back in time as well. Its not just in the way they dress, but people truly behave as though it were a more polite, less ugly time than now. (And he was only 30 at the time of the video above!)
On how this might relate to Dr. Farrell’s site and his broad perspective, I would say that Mr. Lafarge is an example par excellence of someone owning the culture. Listening to his music can be like stepping into another time. Yet its no gimmick: Pokey absolutely lives like you see him. Besides the many years spent steeped in traditional jazz and old American musical forms to get where he is (not even to speak of his top notch band), he is a great advocate of honoring great traditions, of craftsmanship (as opposed to our throwaway trash culture), of more meaningful ways of life than the manufactured ones we’re conditioned to accept. And his owning of the culture is infectious: his live shows are often like going back in time as well. Its not just in the way they dress, but people truly behave as though it were a more polite, less ugly time than now. (And he was only 30 at the time of the video above!)