#HTPremium || It is a night sometime in the mid-1960s, Greenwich Village, New York City. The air in the Cafe Au Go Go on Bleecker Street carries the residue of spilled beer, cigarette smoke, and the rebellious zeitgeist of that era. A young woman with a battered acoustic guitar finishes her set. Across the room, a slight figure with an Afro and a guitar that seems to grow from his shoulder watches with the intensity of a hawk. He approaches, pulls up a barstool, and plays along with her. This is not yet Jimi Hendrix. He is still Jimmy James, playing small rooms with his band, the Blue Flames. But he has found something in this woman’s music that compels him — that rare, undefinable quality that makes one musician recognise another not merely as a peer but as a co-conspirator. Ellen McIlwaine, red-headed, Nashville-born, Japan-raised, plays the slide guitar like she is squeezing something precious from the instrument, and she sings with a voice that shifts the way fickle weather shifts — sudden, but unstoppable. That night in the Village is like a microcosm of Ellen McIlwaine’s entire life story: she was the one the great ones came to, and yet the world never quite came to her. Explore the story here 👉 hindustantimes.com/lifestyle… (✍️@sanjoynarayan) #EllenMcIlwaine #MusicHistory #VintageMusic #HTWknd

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TRUST IN TRUMP. "Just sit back and relax, it will all work out well in the end - It always does!" - President Donald J. Trump. 🇺🇸

By the end of Trump’s term, it’ll be just enough to buy one gallon of gas and a carton of eggs.