JSngry

Not sturdy enough for a kid to sit on at Thanksgiving, if that's what you mean... But I feel I got good value, yeah.

https://youtu.be/fdCUypps2lc

Yep. All I can afford. Nut seems like a damn well-spent 20. Blank Forms does good work, at least with the Joseph Jarman and Thulani Davis. Those were 15, and this is but 20!

Sam Ash Jimmy Butts Zig Ziglar

I got the Blank Forms book, and it is pretty damn thick. Lots of stuff in there!

You can always check with the local AFM. 50/50 shot at best that they still have records, but nothing ventured, etc. This Klein guy either knows more or less than he's letting on. It's a good "story" but in order to take it seriously as history, there's...mechanics involved You don't go from getting a Grant Needs Dope Money call to And Now It's A Classic without there being some tangible specifics happening in between.

Mr. Klein surely paid cash, and unless Grant was buying dope for the band, he probably paid the other two on the spot. So who did he pay, besides Grant? It was either a scab session or else there would be a Union contract on file. Considering the circumstances, a scab session seems very likely. So... Kinda surprised that somebody would be so open about paying for a scab session with dope money. Most people at least try to create a semblance of a cover! Or maybe the dope was already there and nobody got paid. That shit happens too. In that case, paying anybody would be the cover!

So Grant is getting paid to buy dope and the band trusts him to pay them first?

Ok, so who did he pay?

Jimmy Dean Jim Henson Piero Umiliani

Is the writing on that picture on the wall discernible with any kind of digital tool?

If you're trading a record date for dope money, who pays the band? How, cash? No union papers?

What is #3?

Footprints...

I mean that history in a commodity, and that what is not use to the commoditizers can be made to vanish over time. To think that Braxton thinks of times past as such an expansive, surrounding, enveloping, reality and does not apply it to both his present and his future (which will be his history)...that seems most improbable to me.

Isn't that Bert Kaempfert?

Pigboy Crabshaw The Prodigal Son Harold Ousley

i am already hunting...finding DG CDs is going to be tough, they're on Discogs from Euro-sellers, which normally is certainly ok, but international pandemic shipping is....uh....forgive me for not jumping right in on that. My copy of the above was a $4 special, replete with fatal skipping/sticking issues, so, ok, just spent $20 for a NM samething Decca. only gave half a blink or less on that. There's a nice collection of Fricsay Bartok RIAS CDs, but there's a lot of broadcasts instead of DGs. I'll make my way to both, but right now, I want to re-experience this almost hallucinatory Side 1 "as is" minus the fatal errors of my copy.

whoa....

Cowboys, horses, the long game of honesty (and the reality of the trap when you play the short game), the redemptive power of honest hard work, a horse that lives in an apartment that has an uncovered turntable that has a Coltrane record on it (Side Two of Ballads, apparently), Coltrane used as a tool for a ruptured father-son relationship, gentrification as a villain that is a cruel destructor of basic humanity, human-horse bonds that survive all of that, and once again - cowboys and horses. And in an urban setting, because, you know a city like Philly relied on horses long before it didn't and old stables and shit still exist in town. What's not to like about that? Hell if I know. I loved it.

Tess Harper Paul Newman Marcia Fudge

If I had a parallel life to listen to all of it, I would. That's a no-brainer. Just think about it - if, in 100 years, only 1 per cent of his recorded output survives, he'll still have a higher visibility profile than Bill Barron does today. This is not a man who records frivolously or promiscuously. This is a man who understands how historical narratives evolve and get repurposed, and he's being proactive as fuck on defending his from that. I hope his lives forever and makes twice as many records as he already has. And I hope I have enough of this life open to listen to some of them.

Oprah Winfrey Dave Winfield Kansas Fields

Nope, not yours. Glad I don't have to give it back.