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Ms. C's Bed & Biscuits
Choosing Fido’s Best Boarding Vacation
JUST AS you choose a hotel for your personal vacation, you should choose a fun resort for your four-legged kids’ home away from home. These important features should be present: • Tours available prior to initial stay. If the kennel does not offer tours, cross it off your list! • Kennels should smell clean with no odor of stale urine. Good ventilation systems should be in place, along with a sanitation system. If the kennel smells sour when you walk in the lobby, walk out! • Clean food and water bowls. • Outdoor play yard should be large, allowing dogs to romp and play. It should be free of debris. • Caring, loving, and detail-oriented staff. 24 hour surveillance with someone living on premises is ideal.
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Ms. C’s Bed & Biscuits offers all these basics, plus many additional amenities, including: • Large suites with plenty of room for dogs to move around and not feel cramped. • Special handling of elderly dogs. • Separate play groups based on activity level. • Nightly “tuck in” with homemade biscuits. • TGIF all-meat hot dogs every Friday, special treats on holidays such as pumpkin muffins and almond biscottis. • Surround sound music. • Certified PetAirapy Air Purification System. • Free bath after five-night stay.
Call Ms. C’s Bed & Biscuits for your tour and to arrange your dog’s special vacation. Daycare is also available.
Ms. C’s Bed & Biscuits
2145 Beals Chapel Road Lenoir City, TN 37772 865.986.6325 www.MsCsBedandBiscuits.com
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An Enlightening Conversation with Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson
BY RANDY PATTERSON, BOOMEROCITY.COM
ANYONE IN the mid-70s that actively listened to popular radio heard the band Jethro Tull, who commanded a lot of the radio airwaves. Even today, our ears perk up when we hear their songs such as “Bungle in the Jungle,” “Aqualung,” “Locomotive Breath,” and “Living in the Past.”
The band was founded in 1967 and led by Ian Anderson, who handled its vocals, some guitar, and flute. Under his leadership, the band has remained active and relevant despite many personnel changes. That activity has produced 21 studio albums, 11 live albums, and 17 compilation albums.
Until the pandemic hit, Anderson had kept Jethro Tull’s catalog of music alive and well, often touring to the delight of the band’s loyal fans. Sharing how he has weathered the lockdown in his home in England, Ian indicated that he has been helping others with their recordings - collaborating with a wide range of artists and groups and even playing some instruments that he hadn’t picked up in years.
While Ian has been working on a new album, and that was the primary reason I reached out to contact him, he wasn’t ready discuss the album yet as it won’t be released until next year. He did, however, spend close to an hour on a Zoom call with me to discuss Covid, music, political diplomacy, and the future. Already known as a highly intelligent person with a broad range of interests, Ian also showed himself to be a gracious interviewee. It was a thrill and honor to speak with him, and I was again reminded of the incredible breadth and depth of his subject matter.
When asked how he had filled his extended time at home, Ian lamented on having spent a large amount of time on “housekeeping stuff - a lot of it involves planning tours that don’t happen and then having to cancel them or move them when they don’t. That actually does take up and waste a huge amount of time.” But he also explained that “in more creative terms, last year we released the Jethro Tull book, ‘The Ballad of Jethro Tull,’ which took quite a lot of my time intermittently through 2019 and into 2020.”
Knowing that Ian had been influenced by American blues artists, I asked if there would ever be a blues-oriented album from Jethro Tull.
“The only time I’ve done really anything that you might call was essentially blues would be when, on rare occasions, I’ve got up with somebody to do something and that is the genre in which they perform,” said Ian. “But no, I made a decision back in end of 1968 to not in any way be what I consider frivolous and maybe potentially disrespectful to a genre of music that was so important to me when I was growing up as a teenager. As a middle-class white boy, I don’t believe I own the credentials to sing music that is Black American folk music.”
Years ago, I happened upon a newscast wherein it showed Ian chatting with the show’s host, Tony Snow (former press Secretary to President George W. Bush). In the piece, it became clear that Ian and Tony - two men with opposing political views - had a mutual respect and admiration for each other. They also shared a mutual talent for the flute. Tony succumbed to colon cancer in 2008. Ian eulogizes his dear friend on his website. I asked him for his comments about Tony and his advice as to how people can disagree agreeably in today’s political climate.
“It’s about listening to what other people have to say,” said Ian. “And if you disagree with it, then you choose your words with some diplomacy as to how you make a counter argument. Tony Snow was a Southern gentleman, a lifelong conservative and deeply wedded to the Republican ideology. But he could see things from both sides, and he had - you had to have if you were the press secretary for George W. Bush - you had to have diplomacy and tact and political skills if you are going to survive a White House press conference.”
Closing his thoughts about Tony, Ian concluded: “You know, we’ve lost someone who was a very intelligent, very bright, very experienced, very learned person known primarily within the media, and as a speech writer for Bush, junior and senior. I think he had political skills. And, above all, he had political charm to go with that native intelligence.”
As we wrapped up out chat, Ian shared his outlook for the future.
“It’s nice to be busy. It’s nice to have something to look forward to in terms of some challenges. Right now, I suppose the thing that hurts the most is just not being able to jump on a train or a plane and step out onto a stage in front of an audience. Now you’re my age, you do necessarily have time running out. Hopefully we get to see it happen quite soon. It might never happen at all. I try to be optimistic and try to keep hopeful. We’ll see how it pans out in the weeks and months to come.”
The chat with Ian was quite extensive and covered topics from his views on politics in the U.S. to his experiences within the music business and can be viewed in its entirety at www.Boomerocity.com.
Randy’s first interview was at the tender age of 13 with none other than Col. Tom Parker. Thirty-six years later he founded the webzine, Boomerocity. com, and has conducted close to 200 interviews with some of the most interesting people in music.
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