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I'm sure this is excellent and it is a must-buy, but the squeaky cog in me wonders why Feldman doesn't try to secure unheard music from Lacy's vast (and afaik, unplaced) tape archive for proper release.

Heard from some mutual friends/collaborators that the Minneapolis-based guitarist, improviser, songwriter, and left-field artist Michael Yonkers has died. I don't have a birthdate handy but he was born in 1947, making him 78-79. He performed and recorded with Michael & The Mumbles and the Michael Yonkers Band (garage rock, psych-rock), as a solo singer-songwriter/performer with 'experimental leanings,' and improvised music with Milo Fine/Blue Freedom's New Art Transformation. Many of his records and CDs were self-released starting in the early 1970s. I believe that his health kept him from public performance in recent years. Fascinating character; glad to have seen him perform solo a few times, though that was many years ago. RIP.

I love that they are releasing these.  More more more!!!