Tegan & Sara was much fun. It was a very young crowd. There were no lines at the bar but a huge line at the merch table. I felt like a grandma (and I'm 35). Still, T&S were great and adorable as usual with their cute androgynous looks and twins banter. The only song that they didn't play that I was really hoping for was
I Won't Be Left.
It's my fave off
So Jealous.
We got the Beulah DVD yesterday and watched a bit of it last night. Musical bits are great but the in between stuff? NSM. Funny tidbit: I saw myself in the footage from their last show at the Troubadour.
Hec, The Boswell Sisters. Can you recommend anything of theirs in particular? (I assume that you know of whom I speak.)
AMG says start with This collection.
I trust David, but I don't really trust AMG. It's a useful site, but I disagree with their reviewers often enough about the stuff I am familiar with that I take the recommendations for stuff I don't know about with a big, big grain of salt. That said... I've never heard the Boswell Sisters. So I'm sticking my nose in just to bust on AMG? No. Gary Giddins, whose recommendations carry a lot more weight with me than AMG's, has a whole article on the Boswell Sisters in Weather Bird. It's worth buying (esp. since Amazon is still selling it for $14 hardcover), but since you may not want to do that, and your library may not have a copy, and since Amazon's "Search Inside" isn't an option for the book, I'll try to remember to bring th ebook to work so I can scan the article. I'll send it to buffistarawk in case anyone other than sumi & Hec want to read it.
I will say I'm not familiar with the label who did the Boswell Sister collections. If it was something like the Chronological series, I'd feel a bit more confident. Those are my favorite 30s and 40s jazz compilations.
Thanks Joe.
And buffistarawk? How do I get on that?
Sumi, I'm sending you an email w/ the info. I forgot to bring the book with me, but I read the article & it was very interesting. Not sure if it will be much use in selecting a compilation, but definitely worth reading. Think of it as bonus liner notes.
Speaking of liner notes, J&R was selling most Ramones CDs for $7 so I picked up Rocket to Russia. Very entertaining notes by Legs McNeil. I'll send those, too.
Speaking of b'rawk, is the unusual love songs swap dead in the water? I don't have my contribution with me, but I finally got around to converting it to an mp3 so I'll send it when I get home.
Review of Tegan & Sara's LA show: [link]
Awesome, GC! Thanks for the link. Good to see they're getting some recognition.
Sleater-Kinney on Fresh Air, right now. Glad to have the question "Slater (which is what I thought?) or Sleeter (which I've heard a buncha times)?" answered: Slater. If Corin & Carrie say it it must be so.
Anyone see the Sun Records documentary thing on PBS last night? I turned it off pretty quickly. It didn't seem interesting enough to sit through the pledge drives for.
