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that's so true.

JW's rock albums only lasted a few years before he got serious about the blues later when they started the Blue Sky label. I find those albums flawed too, but interesting because I'm such an old fan.

Yet I always think of him as a jazz guy influenced by classical music. I guess I'm just more interested in his solo albums.

The Mexican hat dance on acid melodies sound pretty happy to me.

two classics from my youth! gotta get that one.

Happy Birthday Ralph!

I thought so. As a kid I could hear that in the music anyways.

"Basically, it’s all Southern rock. Southern rock is what happens when crazy white boys try to play the blues, because they can’t do it. But what comes out . . . well, you gotta call it something." - Luther Dickinson. Thing is...I never really thought of JW or ZZ Top as Southern Rock. Maybe someone from Texas can let me know what they think.

Maybe that's what I was thinking of with the ii-V-IM7 suggestion. and maybe it's that constant NEW coming out of the music that thrills me.

profound.

Thanks. It's certainly different than what happened before. So then what's happening there that makes people think that it's so unlikeable as Jazz? It's different?

wiki: "Ornette Coleman (born March 9, 1930) is an American saxophonist, violinist, trumpeter and composer. He was one of the major innovators of the free jazz movement of the 1960s."

Yep. What it doesn't have - and I may be wrong about this - are those ii - V and ii - V - IM7 cadences that are all though the great American songbook standards that make up pre-Ornette jazz.

The first two Columbia albums (1st 'n' 2nd Winter) + Progressive Blues Exp., then the Blue Sky albums (his vanity label) are an excellent place to start. Seems to me like the Firebirds have a trashier sound than the Fender 12, but I'd have to go back and listen to everything to make sure. I think that was part his move to the headless Lazer guitars. Highway 61 Revisited later became his showcase slide tune (to this day even, I wish he'd come up with another one). JW is quite a blues historian, he has a huge collection of 78 records. A look at the song credits on his official releases tells us a lot more than casual observation. So does a look at his un-offocial discography, the pre-Columbia albums he doesnt own tells us even more.

First and Second Winter + Progressive Blues Experiment are my favorite JW albums, then the Blue Sky albums (both his solo albums and the Muddy Waters albums). He kinda lost me after that and then SRV started releasing albums. I never really liked SRV, the aftermath...the blues explosion in popularity really turned me off electric blues.

It was just misplaced for a while.

I like his playing. I know him from recordings with Abercrombie and Liebman.

Cool! I've been listening to Vol.4 & Master of Reality quite a bit lately.

A Guitar Hero Won’t Play the Game NY Times magazine article.

Maybe 3 inches and long gone by now. I had to work early Sat. morning and it was slippery because it rained a little before the temp dropped below 0. All cleaned up by afternoon.

Seems like a lot longer than 40 years...may be hundreds, perhaps.

I'm on call to do some driving, but I'm sure the roads will be plowed and I'm using a 4wd truck anyways. No biggie.

On the Corner Dave Liebman, saxophones ; John Abercrombie, guitare ; Andy Emler, claviers ;Badal Roy, tablas, percussions ; Linley Marthe, basse électrique ; Eric Echampard, batterie here

I see Jeff Beck won a Grammy for his live recording of A Day In The Life. Les Paul Tribute with Imelda May: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdcUvhq_3do

There's some microtonal music I've never heard and I was on a mission for years to check out anything microtonal.