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I get that. But a bit like dance music now. There's so much and it is so disorderly. I am always quite historiography focused in my approach to music and I like to know where things stand, so the sections of bubbling chaos are an adjustment. Another issue with RnB is it is high stakes. The gold is really shiny but the shit stinketh. A bit like comps of old timey fiddle music. Not always a rewarding trawl.

Sam Price And The Rock Band – Rib Joint Part of the Savoy Roots series. Incredible stuff.

Streamability of these Savoy comps is weird. Some are up on the Spots and some aren't. But there's gold there. I find early RnB bewildering. There's such a profusion of different singles.

I like substack a lot and subscribe to many. There is some good quality writing on there, among an awful lot of overconfident and under informed political crap. Substack Notes is pretty weak. I liked Twitter when it started and was fun, but I don't really think the app was anything but a negative over the last 9 or so years. Just screaming, and performing, and endless bad faith takes. And endless political takes, all stupider than the last political take. That was before the wave of right wing trolls, murder videos and bots made it completely appalling. But fundamentally, for me what killed Twitter was the shittiness of politics in microblog form, left, right and centre, so the idea of switching to an alternative which is just as negative but for which entrants are pre-sorted along allegiance to partisan political lines does not appeal at all. Instagram is fine. I just look at album covers and try to ignore the stupid videos that I am not interested in. At least it doesn't send the blood pressure soaring. Having said that I hate the politics, one thing that I am interested in is whether Bluesky, as a "liberal Twitter", falls into the same problem that Truth Social, the "right wing Twitter", fell into. Half of political micro blogging is reposting insane views from insane members of the opposite camp so that your followers can ridicule it. Supposedly Truth Social faltered partly because, once posters become siloed by politics, there were no insane members of the opposite camp with which to engage. Having said that I hate the politics, one thing that I am interested in is whether Bluesky, as a "liberal Twitter", falls into the same problem that Truth Social, the "right wing Twitter", fell into. Half of political micro blogging is reposting insane views from insane members of the opposite camp so that your followers can ridicule it. Supposedly Truth Social faltered partly because, once posters become siloed by politics, there were no insane members of the opposite camp with which to engage. Edit: To be clear, I would not dream of going on Truth Social so this is very much hearsay.

Some great stuff here! Thanks. Also, Fluffy Hunter is a great name. Fluffy being short for Loronia, apparently.

I am extremely happy not to be on twitter anymore and I don't see a reason to change that.

No but I'll check it out.

Very interesting. I see that he also recorded for Black and Blue.

Oh yeah! Great one.

For some reason I'm in the mood. Please recommend me some great compilations (single artist or various) of R&B singles. Jazzy, bluesy, pre-rocky, whatever. Widely defined is fine, although the collections themselves need not be. Ideally streamable.

Blue Mitchell – Stratosonic Nuances A good series. I am very partial to European Episode with Konitz on it. I never really enjoyed Apfelbaum. I can't quite put my finger on it.

Anthony Braxton - 14 Compositions (Traditional) 1996

Very excited for this, and already subscribed.

I hadn't actually heard it before. I assumed it would be a straight Tijuana Brass rip off but it has its own sound completely.

Baja Marimba Band – Baja Marimba Band

Anne Briggs - Anne Briggs

William Hooker - Is Eternal Life One of those records that I picked up much too early in my listening career, presumably because it was on some sort of list (Thurston Moore's?). Still a great record and one of my favourites.

Anthony Braxton - For Alto

Eddie Daniels – Street Wind

Albert Ayler - Vibrations

Anthony Braxton - Seven Compositions 1978

Larry Young - Lawrence of Newark The great rediscovery of the first internet age.

Lester Bowie / Phillip Wilson - Duet

Dave Weckl – Heads Up A bunch of players that I don't necessarily care about and a very dated sound, but it is still a good record. Everything about it just pops. What's this one like?

Don Cherry - Mu 1 The six year old is in his Don Cherry phase, it turns out. I tried to make him articulate why he likes it but he basically said he liked 'Brown Rice' so now he likes all Don Cherry, which I guess is how the 6 year old mind works.