the rolling stone

"Feel Good" (Ike and Tina Turner 1972)
"Enchanted" (Stevie Nicks)
"Edge of Seventeen" (Stevie Nicks)
On The Road (Jack Kerouac)
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Last Friday, "Happy Easter!" was the pleasant and polite way of saying, Good night or bidding farewell for the weekend. Everyone was getting in the habit, and saying that.
Checking out from a small store, "Have a nice weekend, & a happy Easter" was the thing to say, automatically it seemed, so I said it."
The answer: "Well, I don't celebrate Easter the way other people do."
"Oh," I said.
"Most people think Christ was born in December and they celebrate His birthday on Christmas. But Jesus was actually born in April. And so -- while other people are celebrating Easter, I'm celebrating the birth of Christ."

"Oh. Okay."

"Because Christ was born in April." (pause)

"Okay."

"Jesus Christ was born in April."

"Okay."

"Christ was born in April."

"Okay." (And how many more rounds are we gonna go??")
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(I wonder about the phrase "rolled away the stone" in context of "rolling stone" ...)

[Mark 16:2-7 -- Bible] Very early on the first day of the week, just after sunrise, they were on their way to the tomb and they asked each other, "Who will roll the stone away from the entrance of the tomb?"

But when they looked up, they saw that the stone, which was very large, had been rolled away. As they entered the tomb, they saw a young man dressed in a white robe sitting on the right side, and they were alarmed.

"Don't be alarmed," he said. "You are looking for Jesus the Nazarene, who was crucified. He has risen!" ...
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I think about the name of the band, "The Rolling Stones" -- information I've seen says the "Stones" took their name from a line in a Muddy Waters song, "Mannish Boy."
("...I'm a man. I'm a rollin' stone ...")
Muddy Waters, however, (I would conjecture) borrowed the phrase from the Bible -- when you listen to blues music, if you listen to the words, there are many Biblical references and borrowed phrases.

Many of the people who wrote blues music, I imagine, may have had the Bible read to them more than any other literature, in their crucial childhood years. Some people grow up in a home where the Bible is the only Book they've got.

And what about the magazine, "Rolling Stone"? (Looking it up). (It says, "The magazine was named for the 1948 Muddy Waters song.")
Muddy Waters Influence -- all over the place.
Not to mention -- Biblical influence -- all over the place.

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