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Well, if you want to go full-on Anglo-Centric...recorded live on Mexico City!

Maybe a Mexican 45 of "Take Five".

So sorry to hear of the loss of your dad, Lon. I feel that pain still today. It gets better as time passes, it evolves, but the loss itself never leaves.

there were two more Candid albums by that same band. Ebony Rhapsody and African-American Blues.

Leslie Brow & The Footdroppers - C'mon Cindy, It's Clompin' Time Tonite!!!

How about Fletcher with Sun Ra, in Chicago?

There seems to have been a quantum leap in both energy and creativityfrom the Muse records to the live Candid live things..

Season 15, still on point. Kudos!

Cano, doncha' know. https://www.lonestarball.com/2022/5/2/23053694/new-york-mets-designate-robinson-cano-for-assignment

I had a summer gig playing The Men's Club for afternoon pool parties. The food was great, but the dancers were, with one exception, depressing. and the audience, the paying male customers, were pathetic. I've played gigs in joints that were fronts for fences, crack dealers, pimps, you name it. Biker bars. Ramshackle roadhouses literally in the middle of nowhere. Clubs inside houses deep in the hood. A gig's a gig. As long as you get paid... Played a gig in an Ethiopian restaurant that stopped us before the first set was over. Apparently they did not understand that a R&B band was going to play R&B. They paid, though, so I got my $30.00. Played a wedding at a Czech dance hall in central Texas with a band leader who knew a few polkas, but not enough to last the night, or even the first set. The father of the groom had to take to the stage to attempt to soothe the restless crowd by telling them that this was a "city band", the type that we don't often get to hear in these parts, the finest musicians around, this is a treat, etc. It worked for a bit, but finally we had to resort to that old standby - inviting people up to sit in and sing their favorite songs. Everybody sang polkas, and since they're all more or less the same in terms of changes, a splendid time was eventually had by all, and I got my $300.00, even if it was via check. It cleared with no problem. Loaded in through the backroom of a bar that was hosting a high stakes cash poker game with loaded guns on the table. Nobody looked at the anybody, although of course everybody was looking at everybody, if you know what I mean. I got paid my $50.00 and fortunately was not invited to sit at the table. Another place, I had to wait to get paid while the leader pulled a gun on the owner who claimed to be short on cash. There was cash on hand after all! So I got my $65.00. Many times, the life experience of the gig is more interesting than the music that gets played. I feel sorry for the people who only play the union gigs where it's just a clock-in/work/clock-out job, although, you know, you used to be able to be a respectable citizen doing that type of thing. Oh, AFM Trust Fund gigs...omg, some of the places they get a band into...the worst one was a "hospital" for really severe alcoholics who had been brain-damaged beyond repair, in the deeply rural area outside of Fort Worth. Wasn't on any map, one of those truly hidden joints surrounded by high weeds. The few people who came into listen (in the courtyard!!!!!) were zombies, so I took it upon myself to MC the gig. Did you know that you can get by with saying damn near any words in any sequence as long as you don't include profanity's, or make reference to alcohol, and say "thank you" a lot? AND still get $100.00 for an hour's work, straight from the Union?

Ordered. Very interested to hear where he's at these days.

Ok, cheap mini-speakers. It is classical guitar.

Label?

Samdy Barrington - Samdy Sings!

Jack Marshall is playing amplified/electric guitar on some Webern Lieder, on disc two. Did Webern write it for that type of instrument, or was it originally written for standard classical guitar?

Working on it. The logic is working it's way. I read where Craft used all "Hollywood" musicians for these recordings. In some way that I:m probably just imagining, there seems to be a flow to the compositions that is largely not what I've experienced elsewhere. I think I can easy do a disc a day with this one, it's certainly inviting in that way, put it on and keep it on.

Oh ..so who could answer that one, then?

Why did she sing Ives in German?

When did he change to "Ronnie"? And what is he even up to these days?

How is Marni Nixon's German? I don't know enough to tell.

Actually, I like Jones' clarinet playing best of the three axes he plays here. When they play that Pops thing, you can tell that he's played this stuff on past gigs as a real thing, no "context" involved.

Not just unnecessary deaths, but unnecessary "long covid"....

I like it just fine too, but in so many ways the band in Detroit was not settled in the way this one was.