Perkins, I can hook you up. I'm on dial up though, so it might take a while. Insent in a few, but it might take an 1/2 hour to upload.

Thanks! I won't be able to do anything about until I get home,which will be in about an hour and a half, but I will let you know I got it as soon as I can.

Well, by that time, it will definitely have uploaded....

This works out well!

I have it and I'm on broadband, but it'll be 30 minutes or so before I'm home.

Sue, are you still coming to NY? Are you here already? If there is or will be a plan please include me on the email. Bit hectic these days but I'll try to make it.

I can't help on the EC front. Although to combine Elvis with the my-buddy-George-is-the-nexus-of-lots-of-stuff theme, one time I went with a friend to the Burt Bacharach Losers' Lounge but couldn't take the crowd (I get a little claustrophobic) so I left after a couple songs. George was in the house band & had put me on the guest list so I didn't mind leaving so soon. Anyway, I went to the Tower Records down the block. I'm in the jazz section when I notice a guy with a shopping basket full of CDs -- oh, to have that sort of extra cash! I look up from the basket & it's Elvis Costello. I didn't want to bug him so said nothing. We were both there for a while but nobody seemed to notice him. The next day I told George who in turn told me that Joe McGinty, the head Loser, got a call earlier that week from Burt Bacharach asking him if he'd like to join him in the studio to hear what BB was working on. JM picked himself off the floor & zoomed to the studio where BB & EC were working on what was to become whatever their collaboration was called (sorry, I'm too lazy to look it up.)

Thanks DW. It's nice to have an option in case Sue's doesn't work for some reason.

BB & EC were working on what was to become whatever their collaboration was called

Painted From Memory. One of the casualties of my Great CD Disappearance of 2005.

Sue, that worked fabulously. Thanks again!

The unpacking continues (what? I have a lot of stuff). Tonight, I have been listening to a large playlist of things I just have never gotten to. A lot of it is pretty ho-hum (thus not grabbing my attention for a complete listen). Then the pod plays a track off an Elmore James album I got from emusic earlier this year: Dust my Broom.

I remember finding it on one of their "Dozens" lists (pretty sure it was the Modern Blues one). It is apparently not the greatest of his recordings, but it'll do - scratches, distortions and all. I can't find documentation about when these tracks were recorded, one of the major downfalls of emusic, but they for the most part are standards and were likely recorded in the late 50s (he died in 1963). He wasn't a Chicago native but did a lot of recording and played live here through most of his career. I am not that familiar with the genre, nor was I familiar with James' music until about two hours ago, but this sounds like what I imagine when I hear the phrase "Chicago blues." Also a great album for cold weather.

Finding stuff like this is a good reminder of why I need to sort through my unlistened to stuff more often.