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Damn, I remember seeing him with the Astros and wondering just why the hell the Astros would take Curt freakin' Blefary for him...then again, ther was a time when you could pretty much make up an all-star team of players the Astros traded away... Those Orioles teams of the late 60s-early 70s might well be my favorite teams of all time, for real...Frank & Brooks, Blair, Boog, Palmer,, McNally, Cuellar, Bellanger, Unibrow Etchebarren, Moe Drabowski, geez, what a great team they were. And Earl Weaver to top it all off! RIP, and much respect. http://baseball1976.blogspot.com/2009/12/1976-topps-285-mike-cuellar.html

Ropeadope, eh? Isn't that Charlie Hunter's label? Or am I thinking of something else?

Not from where I've seen it, either. In fact it seems quite limited in its scope. I remember owning and liking that project many years ago - but never quite thought it lived up to its legend. And, yup, part of a long and venereal ... ahem, venerable tradition. Dude, what could live up to a legend like that?!?!?! Seriously, that's shit that today is taken for granted, but in 1969 was, like, waaaaaaayyyyyyyy underground to the "mainstream" of America...but the "mainstream" of America almost always seems to discover all its "roots" from the perspective of several levels of branches up. Don't know that there's any way to avoid that, or that it should really be otherwise. I'm just sayin'...that thing was sold mostly in adult bookstores (and deep in the hood) back in 1969...a few years before Rudy Ray Moore (who was not shy about crediting the "folkloric" sources of much of his material, btw) started recording, so a big part of the legend is being "the first" of its kind. That, and the music is so damn good on it too. Maybe not "great" per se, but definitely damn good! Then again, Johnny Otis has always had a strong sense of his chosen culture's heritage & culture, no doubt in part because he chose to live that life instead of being born into it or coming to it as an object of curiosity/fascination/etc. He came, he saw, and he stayed.

The Anthology 2 version is the real Take 1 of the song, then referred to as "Mark 1".. About 4 minutes into this...The two Georges, Paul, & Ringo revisit the mix...

Well then, if were're ok to go back to the revious decade, and if we're defining "Americana" as America in all its forms as performed by all its peoples (something that the current "brand" does not really seem to do, at least not from where I've seen it...), one would be remiss if one did not note this album, which is actually a Johnny Otis project (note the label its on!) based on a form of American folklore that is every bit as real as any other: http://www.systemrecords.co.uk/johnny-otis-show-snatch-poontangs-cold-shotsnatch-poontangs-p-991525.html?currency=EUR

Re:Tomorrow Never Knows... "check around" and see if you can find the mono mix that got onto the first half-days album production before George Martin changed his mind and literally "stopped the presses" to replace it with the one that became the "standard" mono mix. That thing....is scary. http://www.columbia.edu/~brennan/beatles/var-1966.html here it is on YouTube, but believe me, you gotta hear it in lossless off a good source...

HEard it. Like it well enough..."local talent" in the good way, not unlike Dodo Greene, although not nearly as idiosyncratic...worth at least one or two good listens, that's for sure!

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Well, yeah, but then again, Lana spent a lot of time in the US..maybe not mother/daughter but maybe cousins or second cousins once removed or however that works... just wondering if there was a connection between the two at some leve, no biggie. Did find this about Laura on AMG: Working at Bank of America myself (since they bought Countrywide), I must say that I'm more than a little, uh...impressed that any musician could rise that high in the BOA Corporate Culture. Now, them are some real skills!

Stiall wondering if Laura & Lana Cantrell are related in some way. Anybody know?

Don't know that the "problem" was what he issued as much as how he came by some of it...

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb_1A5Dzukc

One thing to note is that the CD strips the LP of its post-production reverb. This creates quite a change in the horn section's timbral "weight".

I saw WR live 7-8 times over the course of their lifespan, and I saw Wayne "draw blood" more than once. That band live...even the bullshit wasn't really bullshit, if you know what I mean...masturbation, yeah, sometimes (mostly Jaco, imo), but never bullshit.

stupid song, but nice arranging!

Wow...we brought "your music" back to you, and with the "British Invasion" (or some of it, anyway) y'all brought "our music" back to us...kinda fucked up that it got lost (in the "general" sense anyway) in the first place, any of it, but stuff like that happens, right? I love it how the first thing so may people do to "progress" is lose stuff, then once they've progressed enough, they go back looking for it...crazy how that goes too. Then again, I worked this gig last night: http://www.rubyrevue.com/ All the entrepreneurs involved here were young-ish Dallas women, and they were (or seemed to be) very well informed about the history of "burlesque" in Dallas & are determined to re-invent it with a female power structure...they actually look at Jack Ruby as a Dallas cultural icon of sorts, w/o anything to do with the Lee Harvey Oswald shooting...so...wow...life gets interesting sometimes!

my "dead post syndrome" has stopped with the updating of my Java, but the whole not-marking-as-read detailed above is still present, and, also above, w/o any discernible pattern. far from the end of the world, but will be curious if any of us finds a fix one day. and please, don't go there!

How is it? I never checked out the whole Barry Miles thing.

That's interesting, given all the Scotch-Irish flavor in all of it...no "familiar ring to any of it? R&B I can understand being "different"...then again, maybe Scoth-Irish and "England" are two different things? Lord knows we've long had different parts of America that still haven't been properly introduced to each other yet, so I can easily see how that could happen

Not always...sometimes it's nothing but recognizing the total absurdity of a given situation and mocking one's impotence to make it anything either than absurd, Like any other form of expression, there's a pallate to it...

Not as many as did after...but by how many more is questionable. Still, a sign of the times that somebody even thought it was a good idea and then made it happen!