AllenLowe

to answer 7/4's question, all of the above; except Lloyd. Especially Ira Sullivan.

Charles Lloyd does not deserve it. In my opinion, of course.

you guys are peaking my interest. Will order this week.

you should return the LP to Chuck for a refund.

it's on the small side; 500 GB - just bought a bigger one; will wipe this one; works fine, with box and USB Cord $25 plus $6 shipping in the USA my paypal is alowe5@maine.rr.com

well, the century's not even 14 years old, and I don't like the responsibility, anyway, but who am I to argue with a critic? from the Blog Phil's Faves, by Phillip Overeem: "Allen Lowe: Mulatto Radio–Field Recordings 1-4, or: A Jew At Large in the Minstrel Diaspora – This is the most ambitious recording of 2014–if not the decade, or the century." more here: http://livingtolisten.wordpress.com/2014/06/20/phils-faves-a-mid-year-report/

sorry, my fault for extending this. Will talk another time.

My feeling about Bobby is that 1) he was a genuinely changed man in his post-assassination mode; and 2) a lot of the alleged thuggishness was fictional; he was the only guy to stand up to the Hoffa crowd, and he also, along with JFK, stood up to the CIA and forced them to stop planning the assassination of Castro (because JFK was against assassination as a mode of political action, and he was negotiating with Castro for recognition of Cuba). also, he was the first attorney general to move (very quietly, which is why he and JFK had a very lukewarm rep on Civil Rights) against Southern forces by mobilizaing the justice department to start law suits on behalf of rights violations in southern jurisdictions. so much of what's been written about the Kennedy brothers is post-assassination character assassination; even JFK's womanizing is largely unsubstantiated and comes from questionable (CIA) sources; he was battling that agency and they slandered him back and continue to do so. Try to get documentation, for example, on the so-called Exxner affair; complete bullshit. And the supposed payment of $500,000 from mobsters to JFK for his campaign; JFK's father was a multi-multi-miillionaire; would JFK risk taking money from such sources with so much personal cash at his own disposal? all b.s.

funny, the one time I met Flaherty he was totally non-communicative. Very self-directed, a little holier-than-thou, in an artistic sense. But that was in, maybe, the late '80s.

am I the only one who thinks that picture looks like a scene out of the new Harry Potter movie, in which the Wizard (Sonny) annoints the ageing supplicant?

I like the trio stuff on Blue note.

John, you liked Crothers? The last few times I've seen her she was a bit lethargic; I felt like I should apply a cattle prod. Glad she was up for this one.

sorry, wasn't intentionally punning, honest. Yes, let us know. and btw, I know you did not intend it as so but I found this somewhat amusing: "you do hear this shallow stuff about 'attention span' peddled in the media, but not by people who you'd pay any attention to."

a little different; years ago Bob Neloms came up to do a concert as part of a seminar I was doing in New Haven; I was giving the reporter his credits - worked with Gene Ammons, Charles Mingus, a few gigs with Dexter Gordon, and even Smokey Robinson; well, when the story came out, the reporter reported that Ammons, Dexter, Robinson, and Mingus would be appearing with Bob at this concert. Fortunately, the audience was fairly hip and nobody seemed to notice or complain. Too bad, would have been some concert....

now you've got me interested.

I'm with Colinmce on the evil axis of arts writing. They all suck, with a vengeance; feel free to give as many examples as necessary.

ok; seems like I can now access the whole thing; but just be aware that for the last 12 years I have consoled myself by remembering that Ives, too, worked in the insurance industry.

glad you posted these quotes; been meaning to read Denk, but don't subscribe; but what an utter fool he sounds like.

Frisell is sincere but, I think, completely misguided. the above sounds like the Dead, but Garcia did it better, in my opinion. what he misses - what a LOT of the Americana crowd misses - and I also include people like Neko Case in this - is the grit and sweat in that old music; theirs are the interpretations of those who have never really listened to hillbilly music from the 1920s, which is a whole other world. It's like somone doing a tribute to Louis Armstrong who has only listened to Chet Baker. they just, to my ears, scratch the surface. The solo that Frisell plays on that first piece is, truthfully, not as good as the one I played on my country modal/Tristano tune in 2007; which is meant to say less about my solo than his.

just, however, to point in the right direction, this is my answer to those who have made the blues into a non-entitiy: https://soundcloud.com/allenlowe-1/bull-connor-2

well, I think almost everyone does it - not exactly wrong, but too conservatively; it's like Marsalis thinking he is stretching the boundaries of jazz composition by throwing in a few dissonant passages - I liked a group I heard once called The Waco Brothers; and I like Chadbourne. But almost all the rest, though I don't hate them (son volt, wilco) I find too limited in scope. There is more quirkiness and personality in Hank Williams, Left Frizzell, Buddy Jones, Jimmy Davis, the Delmores, Frank Hutchisen, Roy Head, and particularly in Jerry Lee Lewis' country performances; not to mention a lot of the Sun 1950s guys from Cash on; might as well go back to the originals, which have way more edge. I also did some blues on my last CD which is meant to address the mediocrity of contemporary blues. Also did this on my 2007 cd; as a guitarist I think I was on to something but I just could not keep it going. I think Cliff Allen will attest to some of the things I tried. I used, btw, Erin McKeown on my 2007 CD (Jews in Hell); though, I will add, I like some of the things Zappa and Chadbourne did with the country genre, I think both tend to be too much at the edge of parody. I genuinely love country music. I will post a few clips when I am able, hopefully later this week.

it's sleazy how many are seling cdrs and photocpies these days; it's happened to me but now I know who's doing it and avoid them - tend to be the big sellers - what I do if I get one is copy it and return the original. you can buy a GOOD cdr blank for .25 each; and they use crappy CDRs and charge $15. On my blues thing I charge $3.50 each for the CDRs, and that's shipped; add packaging and nobody should charge more than maybe 6 or 7 bucks.

I actually haven't heard anyone do it exactly as I picture; for a few years now I have thought about doing so but have been delayed; it's on my project list, but the guitarist I normally use, and who may be the only one I know who can do it right, has disappeared. on a 2007 cd I put out I did one piece - on guitar - which started to get at it; but I've stopped playing guitar due to hand issue.

well, somebody's gotta do it, or at least say it; just like the swing era had come to the end of its creative rope, country music instrumentalism suffers from repetition, the same music gestures repeated ad nauseum. is it arrogant to say, ''the United States needs national health insurance" ? or, "we need an economy based on equitable distribution of wealth" ? those statements are just as broad and sweeping. And just like mine, they make perfect sense. alt country needs a whole new instrumental approach, not so I can enjoy it, but in order for it to re-plenish itself and not hang with its own rope.

to me Parsons is another disappointment; him and what's-her-name, drawing a blank; bland; and I guess I don't think of any of that as alt.country because, to my knowledge, the alt.country 'movement,'as specifically labeled, was much later. Parsons, like the Burritos, the Submarine Band, Poco, etc, was really what we called country rock, at least at the time. as for the instrumental problem; too consonant. Same phrases are really played today that were played 70 years ago; they need to listen to Sonny Sharrock, for one. I also did a piece on one of my earlier albums in which I tried to apply the lessons of Tristano to country guitar. It needs not just chromatics but a whole new sense of harmony.