Kate and Ginger - send me you addresses.
makes notes for mailing
I almost put on "Snake Mountain Blues" but "Tecumsah Valley" worked better nestled up against the moody "Silver Raven." I do love
Our Mother The Mountain
quite a bit - the ultimate country/goth album until Johnny resurrected his career with Rick Rubin. My favorites though are the title track, "Kathleen," and "St. John the Gambler."
joe, that Willie record is as good as advertised and since all the songs are new to me (except "Sister's Coming Home" which I knew from the Emmylou cover) it's quite a treat to get so much Willie in his prime.
Tragic news of the week? There's a HUGE free bluegrass/folk festival in Golden Gate Park next Sunday with much talent that will be conflicting with Emmett's birthday party. It's got Greg Brown (JZ's alltime favorite), Guy Clark, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Del McCoury and dozens of others. Le sigh. Might be able to catch some of the later shows.
You obviously showed poor planning when you conceived Emmett.
His birthday was on the twenty-third, but we pushed the party back a week since his Mom was out of time.
Here's the full schedule - fifty acts at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass. Emmylou, Gillian Welch, Steve Earle, Nick Lowe, Robert Earl Keen, Hazel Dickens...
Hey, this looks kind of cool -- some people at Columbia are doing a study about music (I got an email because I signed up for that "six degrees" thing a hundred years ago):
Now we have another project that we think you might enjoy. This one tries to understand how people form their musical tastes. If you participate you will have a chance to discover and download cool new music. It's legal and totally free. Check it out, >[link]
It's apparently "up and coming" artists that you listen to/download.
As usual I was being a smartass, Hayden. I love the song, and the album it's from, Phases and Stages, is one of the ones I profiled for Lost in the Grooves.
D'oh! I wasn't being a smartass. I love that album, but if that song is the one I'm thinking of, it's not one of my favorites.
some people at Columbia are doing a study about music (I got an email because I signed up for that "six degrees" thing a hundred years ago):
I tried that last Friday and my reaction to the seven or so of those songs I heard veered from indifference to outright hatred. But I hope there's some good stuff on there.
And damn, I'm being negative today. Should just shut mouth.
I just did it, and listened to about a dozen songs, amd my most positive reaction was "meh."
OMG those songs so boring.
Apparently my paralegal plays with TV on the Radio. Any opinions?
Those songs at the Columbia project couldn't have been more generic. And I listened to 20 of them.
TV on the Radio are GREAT! I read someone describe them as "The Pixies fronted by Al Green." While I hate to pigeonhole them like that, it's not too far off the mark.
Apparently my paralegal plays with TV on the Radio. Any opinions?
LOVE THEM!
One of them was somehow chosen as "Best Indie Rock Star" by Baltimore Magazine this year. Which doesn't make any sense because of how they're completely NEW YORK not Baltimore based. I think the "Rock Star" one is from Columbia (Bmore suburb) or something. I kept meaning to write into the mag to protest, because there are quite a few good Baltimore-based bands going right now, but have been too lazy.
