JSngry

Here's a funny story, maybe. One night, a bunch of us were sitting around talking about three pop songs of the '60s that we grew up on. At the time all of the working gigs for pop bands were all doing current stuff. There was a lot of it, and a lot of it was fun to play, especially the funk/R&B stuff. Nobody was playing "oldies" as a matter of course. So I said, you know what would be great? Put together a repertory band to do all these great Beach Boys inspectors and and Mamas and papas songs and all this stuff. And then do concerts of it, maybe even club dates! And then a decade later, we're all playing in the wedding bands only without full instrumentation and full background vocals. And to this day, wedding bands fuck up the good stuff, when they play it at all. So, the moral of the story, maybe, is that if the artists don't get to it first, the business people will, and then...playing catch-up is a non-starter.

Well, let's fix that then! https://youtu.be/YIdrZxaP-gE or is this not the one you're talking about?

No, are they a Texas band? Internet says Philly? Definitely like the concept, though! Not quite The Wondermints, but who is!

Not accurate; https://youtu.be/HdRTfqGy9TE The full opera recorded as early as 1951. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porgy_and_Bess_discography A curious music student would have gone to the listening library to see what the deal was...and I still wonder, to be honest. I also find the whole thing to be troublesome, for several reasons. But the Gershwin business apparatus knew where the money was going to be. They pivoted accordingly, and imo, appropriately. George Gershwin is by far and away my least favorite GAS songwriter, and this opera of his was...unfortunate. I'll leave it at that.

Like most of life on general. But to this point, I defy anybody to tell me that they enjoy the opera as a whole more than they do the pop songs that got extracted from it.

The parts are greater than the whole, imo.

Oyster cracker, yeah...but the staunch Texan OG-ers use saltines, which to me is just as bad. It's cinnamon that is used in Cincinnati chili. When we lived in Tampa, there was a place that did that as their thing, probably one of the chains that jcam_44 referenced. It was pretty good once the shock of the whole thing wore off...and that took a while, to be honest! Then again, I'm pretty much omnivorous, not a purist at all. But I do know (or try to know) the differences between the different steps of evolutions, and resent anybody freelancing with the facts without acknowledging it. What I like (love, actually) about New Mexico is that they call it what it is - Green Chile Stew. Those who claim that it has magical properties when properly prepared are not exaggerating! Here's two ways to do it, in two equally entertaining videos: Even a corporate version will be good if done with proper awareness!

https://slate.com/human-interest/2015/01/chili-history-there-are-no-beans-in-san-antonios-specialty.html Just sayin'...some people take this shit very seriously. And New Mexico has something else to say about it as well. Red or green? Green for me, please. Bottom line 'chili' refers to chile peppers. And "Chile con carne" (no frijoles in sight, please note) is the big bang of "chili". Start from there or don't start at all!. Evolution without awareness is just tribal superstition. So, if there's a history of where the OG chili came from...oh wait, it's a white guy who gave us that history, do he stopped with what he found and that was that. But it's a pretty safe bet that the women who were making this stuff could have included beans had they so desired, and/or if customer demand had been there

Those are fighting words in some quarters

In my limited experience, Cincinnati chili is not just about the spaghetti, but also the seasoning. I've had it where they used nutmeg or allspice or something pumpkin pieish...a surprise first taste, to put it mildly ..

Beans instead of meat, yeah, all day. But beans and meat together...like I said, a lively debate, in certain quarters.

Chili has an expansive palate from which to paint. Both of these recipes read as incredibly delicious, but in Texas, chili is not something to put on spaghetti. Seriously not. And Chilli Mac is something you do with elbow macaroni. This spaghetti stuff seems to be a Mid-Western thing. Rice, maybe, but spagetti? Not here. As to the matter of beans...hmmm....in my chilli world, if there are to be there at all, they're a side dish, not an ingredient. It can be a lovely debate, that one can. I would gladly partake of both of those recipes, if I could find somebody else to make them!

"A really fantastic little record " they say...got your Dusty Decoder Ring on, kids?

Dutch Schultz Dyke & The Blazers Tulip Joshi

Preacher Rollo Bubba Gump LaMont Johnson

Doyle Alexander Mundy Hepburn

Prestige was dealing with the America label there for that quick minute

Hadn't ECM shifted to WB for distribution by the time Nice Guys came out?

ECM was a really hot label at the time, especially in certain demographics. A lot of those people had "heard about" the band, and this was, to use today's terminology, a "permission structure" for them to actually check them out. And to be fair about it, ECM had the reach to get their records into damn near any record store that had a jazz section.

I first heard it in the school's listening library in 1974, an OG Emarcy, and the damn thing had already been played so many times that the surface noise left room enough for reasonable people to disagree whether or not there was an audience or not.

No telling how deep one was with the other. Being a great musician and being mobbed up are hardly mutually exclusive realities...

Ok, if there's honesty about the coke, then I will entertain a read of the book. I forget the exact amount, but it was allegedly at or over a gram a day, every day. Not all THAT much for a pro, but over a lifetime...I can only envy his constitution! Probably the most "interesting" part of it for me will be the Morris Levy stuff. One of the all-time uber-thugs of the music business, at least that I've learned about. When Charles Mingus made his claim that "gangsters run jazz", it was certainly Levy to whom he was referring.

Do they dunk the tea on Tito's allegedly superhuman capacity for daily coke use up until the end of his life?

Three st DG, actually. Five altogether. Seems to be a niche label, wouldn't look for a broad Muse reissue program.. https://www.dustygroove.com/label/131015 https://soulbrother.com/?s=carlos+garnett&searchsubmit=Search&post_type=product