I had similar thoughts looking over the pictures at their web site, Alicia. There's some shots that make her look very attractive, and others that make her look completely wrecked.

Never heard the Memphis Goons, Hec, but I think I oughta.

I remember Robot Hull's byline in Creem. Didn't realize he was so young, of course.

not sure what is going on in my psyche, but I've been a'listen to Allison Krause, Emmy Lou, Dolly, and now Kelly Willis.

I don't think I have my Shelby Lynne with me, so I'm guessing that Nanci, Iris, or Kacey Chambers are next.

I do believe I might need an iced tea before the day is through.

not sure what is going on in my psyche, but I've been a'listen to Allison Krause, Emmy Lou, Dolly, and now Kelly Willis.

I've got all those on my In the Pines tape. Except Kelly, who was on your mix.

I don't think I have my Shelby Lynne with me, so I'm guessing that Nanci, Iris, or Kacey Chambers are next.

Iris is on that tape too, but no Nanci.

Nanci is like an aunt that I've just never gotten to meet in person. My brother adn I really want to have her over for dinner.

Nanci is like an aunt that I've just never gotten to meet in person. My brother adn I really want to have her over for dinner.

Make sure you've got some Eudora Welty novels laid out on the tables.

I thought that this album put Ardent out of business, but apparently it just turned it into a contemporary Christian label. They got signed by... A&M, I think, went to Memphis to record at Ardent Studios, home to their heroes Big Star (and Jody Stephens even had some role in it), made a really terrific album, and then A&M dropped its rock division! Ardent decided to buy it from A&M. Like his idol Alex Chilton David Gray made some killer music for Ardent & sold a few hundred copies of it. Unfortunately since the label had to shell out a bunch of money for the Idle Wilds they couldn't afford to wait for them to become cult heroes like Big Star. I lost touch with them & our mutual friends years ago. I really dug the record, & I bought it for a bunch of people, but it went nowhere. Its lasting legacy was what it didn't to Ardent. Glad the label survived, even if I'm unlikely to buy any of its current product. It now dawns on me that I should have pitched this one for your book, David.

the Unrequited love song isn't the Midge Ure song you meniton but Vienna, but Ultravox

I'm really confused. I know that a couple of tracks on the bonus Australian release CD burnt out of the order that I put them in but I thought that the first CD was right. The Vienna switch was deliberate and last minute as the burn had said that No Regrets was a little too long but I really can't explain what happened between Paul Kelly and Billy Bragg, unless I possibly sent the penultimate copy by mistake.

Anyway, I'm glad Vienna was the way to go. I'll update my online listing later today.

And Aimee have you seen the Verbatim DVDs. DVDs

moonlit, I hadn't. Those are awesome.

Oh yeah. When I googlebate I now get this online:

JEFF TWEEDY (MUSICIAN, Wilco)

I recently read a collection of essays: BUBBLEGUM MUSIC IS THE NAKED TRUTH: THE DARK HISTORY OF PREPUBESCENT POP, FROM THE BANANA SPLITS TO BRITNEY SPEARS, edited by Kim Cooper and David Smay. If an anthropologist from the distant future came back to our time, *NSYNC would tell him more about our culture than any Will Oldham record—definitely more than a Wilco record. People have this misperception that if something's easy to listen to or easy to read or easy to understand, then it was easy to do. I think the opposite is true. The circuit between Justin Timberlake and a fourteen–year–old girl is what's really important about music, and I definitely would argue that that connection is more profound than the one between an Interpol record and a fifty–year–old rock critic. Me? I'm just trying to connect with myself.