Post by Deleted on Sept 29, 2018 0:29:34 GMT -5
Gents and Gentle Ladies, for this review I beg a little indulgence. I was listening to a song I've loved since my teenage years called, "Pretty Kitty Kelly" by Charles Harrison in 1920. I used to sing this to KittyDog (when I wasn't singing an Elvis song or Drunken Sailor), who left me a few years ago. I was ready to light up my pipe, which will be the last part of this review. I went from Kitty Kelly to "Loch Lomond" sung by Paul Robeson. I was looking for a Harrison or John McCormack version from the early 1900's, but Paul Robeson sufficed. While smoking my tobacco, from Low Country, I was thinking about Valleys, Glens, Mountains, Angels chanting the Wild Lorelei.
A few weeks ago a friend died. She was a wonderful lady. She was closer to another friend of mine, Tom Roush, whose renditions of Stephen Foster really capture me. I went right for "Shenandoah" linked below.
Tom arranges all of his music and plays all the instruments. Anyway, I sort of dedicated my smoke to Genevieve.
I was smoking LC Natural Virginia and Burley. I will say right up front that it is an all day smoke. If you ever wondered how your grandfather could smoke CH or SWR all day, this one will show you the way.
You get a raw grass, but not wild and sour, sort of wheat mixed with hay. You get a little toastiness of the Burley, which I feel is more there to subdue the VA and give it that all day pleasure. You don't have to think of this smoke. It just is. No fruits, sweetness, etc. I have thought about rolling a cig with it. I may yet... when I locate my Rizla.
Imagine Tom and Huck smoking Corn Silk by a gentle brook. It is so darned normal and great I may light another one up in the next few minutes. There is a Mild+ nic to it. It's a total "Just the facts, Ma'am" smoke. The one note that should be mentioned, though you may not catch it with every bowl, is that about mid-bowl this really rocks. It rocks with pure normalcy (a word which didn't exist till President Harding made it up).
With Lat Heavies and VA's you're looking for a tweaked experience, as with all the Penzance lovers or OGS, VA Slices lovers. Again, you'll look for nothing in this and get everything that being "One With Your Pipe" can bring you. It's my fourth bowl of it today and my only mistake was smoking something else in the middle of them.
I'm only going to rate this one way, because it is sort of one dimensional... because that is how you'll feel about it when you smoke it. Perfect Oneness.
5 of 5 stars. I add that I bought a few ounces to try and the day it arrived bought another pound of it.
As to the song below, anyone liking an old shanty should listen to Tom and light one up. I will do so again, for friend Genevieve.
A few weeks ago a friend died. She was a wonderful lady. She was closer to another friend of mine, Tom Roush, whose renditions of Stephen Foster really capture me. I went right for "Shenandoah" linked below.
Tom arranges all of his music and plays all the instruments. Anyway, I sort of dedicated my smoke to Genevieve.
I was smoking LC Natural Virginia and Burley. I will say right up front that it is an all day smoke. If you ever wondered how your grandfather could smoke CH or SWR all day, this one will show you the way.
You get a raw grass, but not wild and sour, sort of wheat mixed with hay. You get a little toastiness of the Burley, which I feel is more there to subdue the VA and give it that all day pleasure. You don't have to think of this smoke. It just is. No fruits, sweetness, etc. I have thought about rolling a cig with it. I may yet... when I locate my Rizla.
Imagine Tom and Huck smoking Corn Silk by a gentle brook. It is so darned normal and great I may light another one up in the next few minutes. There is a Mild+ nic to it. It's a total "Just the facts, Ma'am" smoke. The one note that should be mentioned, though you may not catch it with every bowl, is that about mid-bowl this really rocks. It rocks with pure normalcy (a word which didn't exist till President Harding made it up).
With Lat Heavies and VA's you're looking for a tweaked experience, as with all the Penzance lovers or OGS, VA Slices lovers. Again, you'll look for nothing in this and get everything that being "One With Your Pipe" can bring you. It's my fourth bowl of it today and my only mistake was smoking something else in the middle of them.
I'm only going to rate this one way, because it is sort of one dimensional... because that is how you'll feel about it when you smoke it. Perfect Oneness.
5 of 5 stars. I add that I bought a few ounces to try and the day it arrived bought another pound of it.
As to the song below, anyone liking an old shanty should listen to Tom and light one up. I will do so again, for friend Genevieve.
