Brownian Motion

Mad Dogs Englishmen Sol

John Cheever Over Achiever Under Achiever

Bobcat Goldthwait Anne Goldthwaite Acoustic Alchemy

Bill Keith Bill Monroe Bob Keith

Tennessee Stud Studs Turkel Angela Merkel

G. Gordon Liddy Liddy Dole Pineapple Pete

DON'T WORRY. THE CEMETERIES ARE FULL OF INDISPENSABLE PEOPLE.

Fred Astaire Ginger Baker Simple Simon

Gummo Zeppo Karl

Absolutely. No single artist, not even Elvis himself, spanned such extremes as did Michael Jackson. Jackson's highs were brilliant. His lows were abysmal. Listening to "Off the Wall" right now, myself. To me, this album represents one of the great missed opportunities in music history (great as it is): One of the tracks, "I Can't Help It," was written by Stevie Wonder. Can you imagine what a Stevie written and produced Michael Jackson album would have sounded like? Another one of the great missed opportunities also involves Michael: The song "Bad" was originally conceived as a duet for Michael and Prince. They wound up not doing it (Prince claims because they couldn't agree who would sing the line, "Your butt is mine...") and I think it's tragic that they didn't. A Michael Jackson and Prince collaboration...the mind reels. Tragic? WTF? Oh well, they never collaborated. Big fucking deal. Tragic is what that POS did to little boys. Thanks for bringing that up again and again We know he was a major mess I've mentioned it twice and the second time was only due to a truly appalling misuse of the word "tragic". "Tragic" is what his father did to him. "Tragic" is what he did to little boys (and what his father did to him in no way excuses it). "Tragic" isn't a missed chance to record with someone. Thank you, Doctor Dictionary.

I can't comment on your album or on the musicians you've named, but Bluegrass is certainly worthy of a thread in a jazz board, since bluegrass and jazz share some characteristics. The most important thing I know about the music is that in the 1970s, after years of changing only incrementally, bluegrass developed an avante garde (Tony Trischka, David Grisman, Tony Rice, Bela Fleck, Mark O'Connor, and others). The second most important thing I know is that Django Reinhardt and the Hot Club of France had a substantial impact on many bluegrass musicians, and that these musicians, unlike the slavish devotees of Reinhardt who identify themselves as "gypsy jazz" musicians, used Reinhardt and Grappely as a starting point, not an ending point.

Jules Feiffer Jules & Jim Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/science/25flute.html?hp

Jabbo Smith Charlie Johnson Small's Paradise

The Pied Piper of Hamlin Hamlin Garland Garland Wilson

Virginia Dare Sir Walter Raleigh Manteo

A Rotten Apple A Pea Brain A Bean Pole

Mister Cub Mister Softee Mister Goodbar

Duke Ellington Mae West

Jack the Bear Willie the Lion Smith The Toothpick

Beatrix Potter Sirius Black Canis Major

The Day Trippers The Day of the Triffids The Night of the Living Dead

Old Rough and Ready Helen Reddy Hell On Wheels

Federal drug regulators warned consumers to stop using Zicam, a popular homeopathic cold remedy, because it could damage or destroy their sense of smell. http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/health/p...17nasal.html?em

Holly Hunter Holly Hobbie Holly Golightly