* * * * * * * * * * * * A n n o u n c e m e n t ! * * * * * * * * * * * *
On November 27, 2026, if I'm still alive, I will be 80 years old. On that date, and on this channel, I will perform 80 (military - no knees) pushups,
I will unmask forever (showing the ladies what they've missed), followed by an as yet undetermined musical performance, concluding with a rousing rendition of "To the Colors" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gbSxOQqiVhM), performed on an amplified blues harp. Mark your calendars!
Prodigal Son by Josh White. I used most of his original 1935 song, but "modernized" it - adding a verse, changing another, and removing another.
But his original message about what might happen to a young boy who runs away from home, is still here.
Original Lyrics: http://www.seeklyrics.com/lyrics/Joshua-White/Prodigal-Son.html
I perform no antics this time; this remains a sad, solemn and still very relevant work.
But I did change the music - to a sadder minor key and with riffs and fills I have used for years as a right hand exercise for the blues guitar.
By the way, I was a runaway 14-yr old boy, and truant, and spent a few months in reform school. And I broke my Mother's heart.
Reasons for wearing the disguise: (Pick the one you feel is most appropriate)
1) To avoid creditors
2) To avoid ex-wives and ex-girlfriends
3) I'm a typical ugly old hillbilly (79 yrs) with bad teeth, bad hair and bad clothes.
4) Advised to do so by the Witness Protection Service
5) Mob has a contract on me
6) I'm otherwise famous, and don't want this to get out
7) I have a solemn, dignified position in a small town, where performing blues music with suggestive, politically incorrect themes wouldn't be appropriate. (Think preacher, funeral parlor director, high school teacher, mayor, etc)
8) I'm on probation
9) To avoid prosecution. I have outstanding warrants and unpaid fines.
10) I'm a hermit, and very reclusive.
11) I was hideously scarred by an accident.
12) I'm the professional Mexican wrestler (luchador), known as "El Vavoso".
13) I'm a third degree hikikomori with black belt.
14) I suffer from combat-related PTSD, which the VA psychiatrists say is manifested in my case as avoidant personality disorder.
15) I make the worst kind of "stinky face" when I play: clinched and bared teeth, rapid eye movement. A real turnoff.
16) In case I ever get cancelled, all I'll have to do is get a new stage name, and a new ski mask, and I'll be back in business.
17) Russian FSB psyops using facial recognition software can not find me. (I support Ukraine, and I've called called Putin a "little s**t") and also "Putin – khuilo!" [Putin is a dickhead]).
18) My attorneys tell me to continue always wearing the mask in these videos, because in my case against the "Masked Singer Reality TV" show (I was first!) for infringements and psychological damages, not wearing my mask could show a judge that wearing a mask while performing, was not really important or necessary for me.
19) For the pure boyish fun of being a super hero with a "secret identity", (and my superpower is playing acoustic blues guitar, That IS one thing I CAN do).
Born February 11, 1914 in Greenville, South Carolina, died September 5, 1969 in Manhasset, N.Y.
American singer, guitarist, songwriter, actor, and civil rights activist.
Some of his recordings in the mid-1930s were released as by Pinewood Tom.
He was one of the most popular and influential folksingers in America in the mid-20th century. His most famous song, “One Meat Ball,” is about a poor man who has little money to buy dinner and who gets little sympathy from the waiter serving him.
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