Dan Gould

Hardly the same ... they condensed the original to just the C and D sides so eliminating tracks from the 1977 recording. The irony of this issue is that it would get pushed out in the Various section and could easily be mistaken for tracks recorded during the era and therefore of less interest, if your collection is large enough. But this was living masters recording compositions organized thematically, and while they were very much in their prime. I am hopeful that I am going to enjoy this one alot. And may I say while I like the CD cover best overall, the musicians at the piano bench with photos in their respective pockets gets a thumbs up from me too. I would have been fine if they used that on the CD issue.

I didn't but don't buy Citgo on general principle.

Since last hurricane season we've added a loan processor who lives in Tampa so a little concerned business-wise this time around too. I need to top off gas for the generator and Sue and I have to improvise a top door for one stall for the horses but that can only happen when they are in for the duration so hopefully not struggling with plywood tomorrow afternoon. Time will tell and otherwise we're well-situated for food for all living beings on the property, now that Sue got the horse feed she couldn't find yesterday. Looks like deteriorating conditions by Tuesday afternoon and then overnight and most of Wednesday will suck. And blow.

Yet when CDs were still popular and reissue programs still happening ... only CD set seems to be in the UK. Is it as good as I hope, @Chuck Nessa, if you know?

I already have this en route https://www.discogs.com/release/10189476-Various-I-Remember-Bebop-The-Complete-Recording-Sessions but curious who might be familiar with it as apparently a UK release only but by Sony? Concept is certainly intriguing and I imagine the track times are short to force these legends to play to the length of a 78, more or less? Thanks in advance.

Ironic that this thread got revived this week when Terry Funk died at 70-something and a really talented guy named Wyndham Rotunda passed at just 36 ... and I think it was a year or so ago that Ric Flair had one final match, long after his retirement. As far as AEW goes, I am glad there is a well-funded promotion to compete with WWE but the roster has too many interchangeable cruiserweights doing flippy/spinny shit and guys whose conception of a wrestling character is just ridiculous, like Orange Cassidy. It's also a kind of old-age home for former WWE stars as well as WWE talent that got raw deals from Vince but its those guys that make the product watchable, like Daniel Bryan and the former "Dean Ambrose". And now that I've outted myself as a wrestling "fan" let me say I can't watch any of the shows from either promotion straight thru, but I will flip the station in and out on Mondays/Wednesdays.

Thanks to Brad and Stompin' for bringing this article up ... I don't recall reading it back in July (and I think I'd remember hearing that people questioned whether Sonny's body was the one buried). Definitely hoping the author writes that book about Clark.

Color me leaning toward "no," as already noted there are a lot of CDs of an era that pre-dates what I enjoy and I am not sure that there are possibly a lot of tunes from that era (the one I do collect) that would be new.

Is this some new report you saw, because I see nothing about 2025 on the interwebs and I just searched again. Shut down for the rest of the season, pitching-wise, yes. And if surgery is decided then 2025 is accurate (and its disconcerting to realize that second UCL surgeries don't have a great track record in terms of recovery or at least length of recovery). The unicorn might just be a slugger in the future.

Also available at no cost to US Residents is Valery Ponomarev, Beyond The Obvious (Reservoir) Don Braden on tenor, and no piano makes for a slightly different group sound. (Funny story: I got two copies because I had one, put it into a discard pile, and then a couple of months later bought another, very cheap copy. I listened to this copy and said "this is pretty darn good" and then told myself, "Numbnuts, you already had this and didn't like it." Hopefully whoever responds, gets the version that appeals to them. Because I listened to the first one again and wasn't so impressed.)

Unfortunate. I have that first CD and remember enjoying it quite a bit.

Thank you so much for saying so! I am going to be uploading more tunes on youtube in the coming weeks - I haven't really done updates on the website for the music samples. If you haven't, you should subscribe to my channel. You can find me by searching Percy France - I am most but not all of the music uploads there.

Yes, how a bluesman sings, and how someone else does. Seriously that was garbage.

Yeah the difference between legit blues and what did you say, fizzied up recreation? PEE - F-ing YOU. Glad I never voluntarily heard Cream play legit blues until now.

OK so here's one, handy/dandy with lyrics on the screen: Sorry, not feeling the inflection thing at all. What I do feel is the power of a great singer to put over a great song. Just as a great actor may put over a particular speech in a play or movie. But the words/meaning/emphasis/anything ... it's the same. This kind of reinforces why I don't really like to read about music - I'd rather just listen.

I'll just say "examples, please" to try to get a handle on what you are saying. To me, vocal inflections are akin to good acting vs bad acting. Or, if you will, the choices that actors make during a performance. We're also getting beyond recorded evidence unless you believe that performers inflected the same every single time. So ... examples?

If the established inability of the Red Sox to ever rise past 7 games over .500 weren't enough I just jumped ahead to September's schedule. They got six total against bad teams (KC and the White Sox) And the rest against the Orioles, Rays, Rangers, Blue Jays and Yankees. Their best finish is in front of the Yankees, if that team never wakes up. .

That's the kind of secrecy that actually gives me hope that something might be afoot and that not only will you eventually be able to discuss but that we might also be able to see and discuss ourselves.

So it sounds like there are two different archives you are accessing?

Glad you've enjoyed him so much. I always thought Douglas Lawrence described him best, in the piece he gave me for the website: "He deserved much more recognition than he ever got. No one deserves to be heard more than Percy France. Especially in today's world of playing notes just to play notes. Percy never played a note he didn't mean. He never played a solo he didn't mean. He was always for real."

If there was ever time the Yankees need Luis Severino to regain his form it is surely tonight. Given recent results it might take a miracle.

On what would have been his 95th birthday, new youtube uploads from the Gaskin Papers plus a photo recently received from the Smithsonian of Percy at a surprise b-day party in 1989. Phil Schaap's copious head of hair can also be seen. Leonard Gaskin Papers, Archives Center, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution

As a Cub fan by birth and Sox fan by choice, hatred of both NY franchises comes very naturally. The Mets fall from $350 million dollar payroll is just a beautiful thing and the possibility of both teams missing the playoffs would be a great thing to see. That Yankee collapse at Miami is the kind of thing that can send a team into a spiral, and playing Atlanta can do it regardless.

Could the Yankees limp into their weekend "nobody cares but the fanbases" showdown with the Sox under .500 courtesy of the Braves? I don't know but hope springs eternal! (This is where I really miss the green smiley with the eat-shit grin that didn't return with the last upgrade)

I think the key question is how many were ordered up front to qualify as fast. If it were a thousand up front I'd agree.