A LITTLE VIDEO ABOUT MY PUBLISHED WORK
Amazing things are always happening to Erskine and me! This is the drawer of an old bedside table that was in the spare room of our rental apartment when we moved in. The drawer was stuck so I thought we hadn't put anything in it.
A
couple months after unpacking and stowing everything away, I needed one of my
two old address books but couldn't find the books anywhere. I thought they
would probably just turn up. However, recently I really needed one of them so
we went throughout the apartment, searching! We even tried to open the stuck
drawer several times. No luck, so we figured the address books couldn’t be in
there and didn’t try to open it again. Then yesterday I decided to try the
stuck drawer one more time. As I approached the drawer, I saw that it seemed to
be very slightly ajar! I pulled on it and it opened easily right away! Inside
were the missing address books! In all the unpacking and putting things away
after we moved in, somehow the drawer couldn't have been stuck at that time and
I must have placed them in there and then forgotten about them. Strange though
how the drawer now managed to become unstuck all on its own!
This is an old photo from the mid-nineties when Erskine and
I managed The Islands Club, oceanfront condominiums opposite Quality Food
Store, Cable Beach, and next to what became the luxury Bayroc condominiums. We
lived in a lovely little cottage on the grounds and this is the gorgeous beach
where The Islands Club was situated.
Most of the residents back then were “snow birds”, who
flew down to The Bahamas in the winter to escape the freezing cold weather in
the north. Usually there were no owners in residence during the summer and
Erskine was able to do his real estate broker work in his spare time. Now The
Islands Club mostly has occupants year round.
I hope you are enjoying this special time of the year
wherever you are. Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, Happy Hanukkah, Joyeux
Noël, Feliz Navidad….! May your holiday season and the New Year be filled with
much joy, happiness and success.
One of our followers at on our tiktok platform asked: "I like your
music. Where did you get your guitar?"
My husband Erskine has had many guitars (electric as
well as accoustic) but he bought this accoustic guitar from a music store in
Davie, Florida in the early nineties. It was made by Hohner, one of the oldest
German guitar makers.
"Sinner Man" is a traditional spiritual song about a sinner trying to hide from divine justice on Judgement Day!
There are several versions going back to the one by the Les Baxter Orchestra in 1956, but it possibly originated from the spiritual "No Hiding Place Down Here" recorded in 1928 by the Old South Quartet.
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My husband Erskine Knowles sings "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down" (No. 1 hit on the Billboard US Country chart for Johnny Cash). Written by Kris Kristofferson and recorded in 1969 by Ray Stevens. WATCH HERE
“A Medley of Calypso Songs” is sung and played HERE by my husband Erskine on his guitar. This is another song from our Tiktok platform "youngheartsforever". These songs are folklore and quite old.
I often wonder how Erskine has such a good memory! He
knows the words and music of hundreds of songs: Bahamian, Caribbean, Rhythm
& Blues, Rock, Soft Rock, Romance, Blues, Country & Western, and so on!
He says he once had a book with 900 chords that he
studied - "All kinds of chords". Along with the major and minor chords
that he already knew, he learned 300 more but he says he hardly ever uses all
of them. He could use them if he wanted to though and he does use a lot of them
in songs.
Thank goodness Erskine has this remarkable memory as I
am quite the opposite!
(Video was originally posted on our Tiktok platform "younghearts")
