BruceH

Lightnin' Hopkins is one of the first bluesmen that I really got into, lo these many years ago. Just dive in.

I wonder what his brother Johnny would say.

A little late here, but... CONGRATULATIONS!!!

Time now for a reissue of Labour of Lust.

Just bought this. The fact that it's the Jesus of Cool song lineup is a bit of a drag. I knew it was, of course, but I'll always like Pure Pop as an album more than Jesus of Cool, though the latter is arguably the better title. But what's up with the packaging? You have to unfold it every which way like a piece of oragami to get at the damn CD, and then the disc is held in a cardboard sleeve rather than on a spindle. I hate that. Good sound though.

That's what makes the album so "cool" on a number of levels. The way Clark sort of lays back on much of it, his generosity to the band...there's something really special about it I think.

Yes, the cover of Introducing Wayne Shorter has super-sharp color photography of Wayne and tenor. That's the one! Probably my favorite of those covers. Vinyl or CD, someday it will be mine...oh yes! It will.

This makes me very nervous.

Yes, Court's stepdaughter Anne Taylor Fleming was an essayist for the Newshour, and wrote novels too. Have to admit, I'm more familiar with her name than with the name Hazel Court.

*sigh* They grow into godless killing machines so fast.

I've heard that Artie Shaw was hell on wheels to live with. He's lucky they didn't have blogs in his day.

I was going to say. I remember when I first heard of the New Madrid fault when I lived in St. Louis and how the brick construction of so many homes would be disastrous when that fault decides to slip because the vibrations essentially turn the bricks into liquid. Meantime, did anyone see the news about the new prediction for a CA earthquake at least as bad as Northridge? Over the next 30 years, the odds were placed at 99%. So for most of us, there is virtually a guarantee that there will be another disastrous or near-disastrous quake in CA in our lifetimes. Time to move to North Dakota. (Seattle is also subject to earthquakes.)

You and me both!!

They're being put out by "Analogue Productions" but on CD? Aren't CD's a digital format by definition? I'm also curious about Capuchin Swing, but it's a strange list. If you're gonna choose just ONE Hank, why not Soul Station or Workout? And no Sonny Clark album? What gives?

Second that. I sure love this music. Though I've got the Mosaic, I've considered getting the Koch re-issues of the Morgan/Shorter Vee-Jay albums just for the covers.

Born on tax day? What rotten luck!

Well it's about time.

We all might have to say goodbye...

Sorry to learn of this. My best to Coltrane, and hopes for a speedy and full recovery!

Indeed, Dial "S" always struck me as the closest he came to a "run-of-the-mill" album. (Though Mobley is fine on it.)

Yeah...but when I'm looking for one of their CDs in my collection...that black plastic clunky CD box is REAL easy to spot!!!!! So I've come to kind of like them (and the cheesy covers too!) I know what you mean! I think the big clunky black CD boxes were a marketing ploy; made them easy to spot in the stores.

I'd much prefer to hear a live version of the album than simply a different mix.

Wake me when "The Grid" becomes "The Mesh."

My brain hurts.

I find it absurd that he compared himself to Rosa Parks.