Dan Gould

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New Houston Person = definite add to my Christmas wish list.

I just realized that for the Red Sox to continue to lead the majors in world championships this millennium, KC has got to come through in the WS. GO ROYALS!!!

Couldn't care less about the group or the recording but I will give them this - they've created the ultimate BFT track. How long before someone uses this??

I guess this one belongs in a category all it's own: . Not really R&B, and filled to the brim with jazz guys. Me likey though.

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Ace, of course, for blues/R&B archival stuff. I'm particularly enjoying their recent Bayou blues/R&B comps. Some people say the obscurities they sprinkle in with the money stuff should remain obscure but I often disagree. There are forgotten gems in them thar hills, as far as I'm concerned.

Pissed as hell at them right now. Ordered something through Amazon Marketplace three weeks ago on my birthday. Total DHL clusterfark - according to the tracking records, it sat in Tampa, in limbo between DHL and the USPS for almost a week. Then on September 29 it apparently reached the state of Washington, with the notification that delivery "may be delayed". No tracking update since then. I waited until the end of the expected delivery period, which was yesterday, to contact Import CDs and ask for a refund. They refused. They are "confident" that it will be delivered "very soon" and may be they'll consider a refund if I give it another week. They forced me to contact Amazon directly. Rather than opening an "A to Z" claim, which can take two weeks, I had Amazon contact them and encourage them to issue a refund. We'll see if that does the trick, but never again will I order from them. It may not be their fault that DHL is incompetent but after this period of time its their responsibility as the seller to step up and say they're sorry and give me my money back, and do it without delay.

I could be wrong but the way the AL playoffs have gone I fear/suspect that mostly we're setting up for an NL world champion. But I have a clear favorite, the Royals, for the same reasons Jim lists. Plus it will probably inspire Joe Poz to write about 10,000 words just during the ALCS and they will all be entertaining and insightful.

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Ed really captures what I've been thinking about both Durium, and what happens when life - or more appropriately the end of a life - touches this community.

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That was fantastic. Thanks a lot.

So who to root for/against in this Red Sox/Yankee absent-playoffs? Seems there are plenty of ex-Red Sox to follow but I'd never root for the Cards and Lackey was a douchebag on the way out so forget him. I'll always favor Jon Lester wherever he ends up but it seems to me that KC is the team to support as long as they're in it, since it's been so long since they played important games in September, let alone critical games in October. I think in the NL I have to go with "anyone but L.A." but God help me if its a Dodger-Cards NLCS. Until then, it's Pittsburgh, as the underdogs getting another chance, and San Fran if Peavey is pitching. Who you got?

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Thanks Tom and Ubu!

What Paul said.

Thanks everybody. A pretty nice day, and an even bigger haul of music than what I listed out here: And the fun won't stop yet, I took today off and will be transferring my vinyl haul to CDR and heading to Coldstone Creamery to use my birthday coupon tonight.

Can't recommend it enough. You'll get a very close personal look at Harris the man as well as the musician. Very hard reading the chapter about his death - Janie was with him when he collapsed. You must have seen that its also chockful of photos and reprints of reviews/clippings etc. It's a really great book.

So today I never made it to Record Rack, for just under $73 I walked out of RadioActive records with (in order of mounting excitement) Scott Hamilton/Warren Vache, Skyscrapers (Concord) John Bunch, John's Other Bunch (Famous Door) - with Scott and Warren in the front line, should make a nice two-fer CDR Presenting Harold Ashby (Progressive) Buddy Tate - Harry Edison, Our Bag (Riff) - a 1975 live date in Holland Plas Johnson, Bop Me Daddy (Tampa) Mickey Tucker, Sojourn (Xanadu) - with Bill Hardman, Junior Cook and Ronnie Cuber front line Arnett Cobb is Back (Progressive) Johnny Griffin, You Leave Me Breathless (Black Lion) - with Kenny Drew at Montmartre, I was sure I had this but was surprised when I only found other Montmartre recordings in the binder Billy Mitchell Live, Now's The Time (Catalyst) - seems like this one may be pretty darn rare, a 1975 show at a club on Long Island, seems pretty cool to snag And in addition to being a pretty nice take, I had the smarts not to go for an Affinity repackaging of the Frank Strozier-Booker Little Vee Jay record, nor Junior Mance, Truckin' and Trackin (Beehive) I'm just not so sure on the two records I left behind: Jackie Mclean, Tune Up (Steeplechase, from the Left Bank with Lamont Johnson on piano - I got less interested in Jackie Mac as the 60s went on but I have to admit what I heard at the listening station wasn't bad) Memphis Slim, Born With the Blues - a new vinyl reissue, what caught my eye was that Lowell Fulson plays guitar on this. Still $20 seemed high to me. Any thoughts about the two I left behind? It's not even my birthday yet and I think I've done gooood. Thanks Mom (and Universal Property & Casualty for the $25 gift card)!

That's very cool news. The schedule is pretty impressive so far: Larry Coryell September 19 & 20; Cyrus Chestnut September 27 Fred Hirsch October 17; Jason Marsalis October 30; Lew Tabackin November 1 Don Friedman January 2; Freddie Cole January 8 & 9; Houston Person January 10 The one show I am committed to is the Person appearance but I am giving serious thought to Tabackin and if we hadn't seen Chestnut recently we'd be all over that one too.

Cool! We'll have to arrange a meet and greet before/after so we can actually say we've met in the real world.

Thanks MG but per Amazon, Concord issued an expanded version in 2011 with six more tracks. And there are new copies under $6 through the Marketplace. Way less than what I paid for the LP.

Birthday is next weekend and I was visiting Mom in Naples, FL and asked that in lieu of a gift she fund a vinyl safari to the only two record stores that looked decent: Record Trader and Echo Vintage Books and Vinyl, both in Fort Myers. Came away with: Montreux Blues Festival (Excello) - Lightnin' Slim, Whispering Smith, Jimmy Dawkins are on almost all of the tracks Guitar In My Hands Volume 2 (Moonshine) - all Texas bluesmen, I am guessing I have the Gatemouth tracks but the others should be new Goin to Chicago (Testament) - JB Hutto, Sam Lay, Floyd Jones - EddieTaylor, Billy Boy Arnold - I fear I may have these tracks elsewhere but what the hey. Ray Charles Live In Concert (ABC) - probably should have considered the likelihood that its available on CD but another what the heck purchase Oscar Peterson - Gerald Wiggins - Sessions, Live Best of all I still have $75 left for my south Florida vinyl safari next weekend at Record Rack and RadioActive records.