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The odd thing is... I'm not a Radiohead fan... barely know their work actually... and yet I may kick in a few bucks just to hear this and support the model.

You mean now or back in the 17th century?

Her family was pretty clueless, weren't they?

One of the things that makes the film so intersting imo.

Damn. It don't do no good to discuss a song's lyrics without posting the damn lyrics... It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet" And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge" "Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas "Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please" "There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow" And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night? "I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right" "I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge" "And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge" And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?" "I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite" "That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today" "Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way" "He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge" "And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge" A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge Yeah, I see no relationship with Emmet Til either.

What do you mean by "lost?" Were these in your Saved For Later list or had you downloaded them before but deleted them?

And following that, the "I-Changed-My-Mind-Again-This-is-the-For-Real-Final-Cut" version due out in 2012.

May not be a technically correct definition - as Dan has noted, it's original meaning is no longer relevant - but I'll take it.

Don't know if it's the same "workprint version" or not, but my wife, back in the day, saw an advance screening of a "rough cut" that she says was filled with temp music and missing scene cards and was quite a bit different from the released version. I'm very curious to know if this will be the same thing.

Sure! We "needed" to hear yet another of Wynton's version(s) of what he thinks music back then sounded like (and we will likely "need" an upcoming 2-CD set of Wynton Marsalis Plays Music He Allegedly Wrote Which Inspired the Ken Burns Documentary, "Ken Burns' WWII"). We "needed" to be told by that trailblazing documentarian (in the same way that Wynton is a "trailblazing jazz artist") Ken Burns about WWII, something we've yet to fully comprehend or understand in our post-modern world. We also "need," but I don't know if this is going to happen, Stanley Crouch to tell us his opinions of WWII in the context of how it inspired these two great "artists" to "create" their "documentary," as well as the "music" used in this "documentary," and how those soldiers gave their lives so that their service could be immortalized in an epic gesture of self-aggrandizement by the two leading experts in that field, for which we should all get on our knees and say "Thanks." Great arguments, Al - if any of them were actually true. Having seen/heard only the first two episodes, I'm frankly confused over the criticism of Marsalis' music - or more accurately choice of music. I haven't heard much Marsalis per se, mostly period pop and jazz (the little country mentioned above) and some elegaic classical themes. To diss the doc for one's hatred of Marsalis is simply wrong imo. As for the knock on Burns himself, well I'm confused by that. So because, collectively, "we've yet to fully comprehend or understand [WWII] in our post-modern world," Burns (or anyone else, Al? Do you include all documentarians and scholars in this statement?) that the subject matter itself is off-limits? Please explain, as I'm sure I simply don't understand you correctly. As for Crouch, that's simply your anti-Marsalis bias showing - and I think criticizing the entire doc because of a personal dislike for Marsalis is terribly wrong and does a great diservice to Burns' work (no matter what one might think of the actual merits of the project). And "self-aggrandizement?" C'mon, it's obvious you haven't seen the show.

I had trouble with it at first, but when I finally figured out how to configure it properly it now works fine. I mostly objected to them taking away the choice of which version to use.

Bop-Be for sentimental reasons, but really all of them are very good.

Newbury Comics usually has these (on Ebay) for around $40 plus a bunch for shipping.

That would be my exact schedule, Adam, were my wife not out of town and me stuck at home with the kids! Still hoping to catch Oliver Lake tomorrow night though.

A more recent pic of me and my daughters.

Anyone know anything about Oliver Lake's Organ Trio? Might catch them this weekend at the Bakery.

Hmm. Where'd my pics go? Yeah, Chris, that's one that I have. Pretty neat!

CD or LP? I have at least one of the LPs somewhere but would have to look...

I wasn't kidding when I said it was my favorite Lee Morgan album.

Yeah, just a blip on the radar as far as such inanities go, but still... http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-sw...ines-california

You suck, Al! Leeway is my favorite Morgan album.

Back when they were doing the "jazz" series I got a call from one of his assistants asking if we could negotiate a deal for some of my "copyrighted" material. I said ok. She responded with something like "well, most folks are offering material for free so if you don't say yes your material is OUT! Heh. Not surprising. While Burns has a budget, most docs are made on the cheap. I would think that, with jazz at least, most owners would offer up their work to be seen/heard by a potential audience of millions.

Darth Vader plays the blues.... http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseacti...ideoID=18560309

Nate - I did receive the disc the other day and already gave it a spin. Some interesting stuff here. Thanks!

Yeah, picked up the Air Adventurer and the Black Adventurer a couple of weeks ago. But I have several of the oririginal ones from the 60s and 70s as well. Nicely done and cheap at $10 each. And you don't have to spin them at 45 rpm and flip them every ten minutes either.