J.A.W.

It's available from HMV Japan, but beware! Their shipping rates are sky high. Why don't you ask Hiroshi Tanno: hiroshi@earlyrecords.com if he can order it for you from HMV - his price will be a bit higher than HMV's, but his shipping rates are much lower.

Yes indeed. I agree that the Tommy McClennan was a crown jewel of that series. I play it quite often. But I would still reserve the supreme crown for the Robert Lee McCoy (Robert Nighthhawk). Before that disk, all reissues of that material were in absolutely terrible sound, with some tracks barely audible. That disk was like a dream come true for Robert Nighthawk lovers. For Blind Willie McTell fans, also be advised that JSP just released McTell's complete known recordings from 1927-1940 on 4 disks at a very low budget price (about $21). The McClennan and Robert Lee McCoy were indeed crown jewels, and deserved much wider attention than they apparently got. I assume the wonderful earlier Bluebird series was killed because of poor sales. Let's just hope this series will do better, even though the current reissue programme might not be as extensive as the earlier one promised to be. Anyway, I'm glad they released the Blind Willie McTell, which wasn't part of the earlier series.

CDUniverse is selling them for $13.29, BOB for $13.99 and the box set for $174.99 at the moment. Amazon UK is selling most Dylan SACDs for £9.99, which might be interesting for European board members.

Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Rock Me Mama CDUniverse

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This is the complete list: Various - Walk Right In* Various - The First Time I Met the Blues* Various - That's Chicago's South Side* Various - That's All Right* Leadbelly - Take This Hammer Various - Poor Man's Heaven Arthur "Big Boy" Crudup - Rock Me Mama Sonny Boy Williamson - Blue Bird Blues Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues *These are included in the 4CD-set.

When The Sun Goes Down - The Secret History of Rock 'n' Roll, Vol.9: Blind Willie McTell - Statesboro Blues - RCA This is one of the best discs in this wonderful RCA series. It features Blind Willie McTell's great songs and a few songs with others (which I don't like that much to be honest) from his Victor years (1927-1932) in beautiful sound. The shellac disc transfers were done by John R.T. Davies, the metal part transfers, audio restoration and CD mastering by Doug Pomeroy. Highly recommended for the McTell solo songs! CDUniverse Deep Discount CD

No need to apologize! You can post as many Van Morrison threads as you like, of course

Here's another Van Morrison Blue Note CD thread on this board.

I second that, it's a great album, one of Dorham's best IMO. I like the sombre mood very much, and, like you said, the playing is excellent.

I forwarded them all to spoof@ebay.com, without opening the links.

I keep getting spoof eBay e-mails, about three or four a week. Already got two today...

Happy birthday!

Bev, Check out this post by B3-er

...And here's the AMG review

Quite.

I still listen to them B)

Bluenoter, I couldn't agree with you more. Such things as the "Babe Thread" were an embarrassment to me at the old Blue Note board, and it remains as much here. I see no useful purpose to the thread, and it's not like you can't find naked or partially clothed women on the internet if that's what you want. You'd think by now people would understand the meaning of the terms "hostile environment" and such, but when forced with the idea of giving up their toys, some still just respond with the kneejerk cries of "PC" and refuse to budge. Well put, I fully agree.

Yep, about three hours ago.

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Haven't played this for a while (there's still an enormous pile of unplayed discs on the floor of my living room...), but I was very impressed when I first heard it. A great disc and, IMO, a much, much better album than Raining on the Moon, which I didn't like at all - sold that one right away.

For overseas orders, it's $6.99 for the first disc and $1.50 for each additional disc.

I just heard on the news that Johnny Cash has died. I don't have any details.

This is very sad news, and very bad for democracy and freedom. Let's hope they'll get the lunatic soon.

There's already a thread about these, including a link to Mosaic.