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No one knows for sure that that Bix's death was caused by poisoned alcohol - or if the govenment poisened it. Perhaps - perhaps not. We do know that, according to the article: "I have been able to obtain the unpublished medical records pertaining to his care. They reveal that he had been a chronic alcoholic for the preceding nine years". That sounds to me like someone who was so addicted to alcohol that he would drink anything. Who knows what he drank that night? No one does.

Someone else saying that addicts aren't responsible for what they do and that others are responsible because they provide them with whatever they're addicted to? If you use something that harms or kills you, you are ultimately responsible. No one else is.

Little Rootie Tootie Tootie Heath Toots and the Maytals

Paul, wanted to ask you what you thought of this album. I got a quick listen to it up in NYC and it struck me as rather tame and conventional, which was a huge disappointment. However, I did not have much time to spend with it (even though it is only one-sided). Your thoughts? I like it. It's short - only two cuts on one side - and not as "out" as much of Lowe's playing, but there's good interplay between he and Phillip Wilson, and it presents a side of Lowe that I enjoy hearing.

I volunteer at our local library and occasionally there are boxes of LPs included in the book sales. I'd given up looking through them because I'd never found anything that I had any interest in. Last Friday, I was there and, for some reason, decided to give the LPs a quick look. I came across a copy of Ives' Concord Sonata, performed by Aloys Kontarsky on the Time label. It appeared to be in very good condition, so I took it home for 50 cents. The LP turned out to be in mint condition. The paper sleeve inside the jacket has pictures of various Time releases, many of which are percussion extravaganzas, the sort of thing that some people bought in the late 50s - early 60s to show off their stereo rigs. There were a number of these in the boxes at the library sale. I figure that someone was into those percussion records, bought the Ives because it was on the Time label, played it maybe once and found out that it wasn't a percussion demonstration record, and set it aside. Anyway, I was happy to find it, and it turns out to be a performance that, at least on first listen, I enjoy.

Nappy Brown Naopoleon Lajoie Joy of Cooking

Joe the Bartender Crazy Guggenheim Mr. Dunahey

Surfer Dude Dick Dale Trigger

Bechet Select - disc 1

Sophia Coppola Lana Turner Tea Party members

Thank you.

Eminem Charlie Brown Leiber and Stoller

Happy Birthday 2014!

I'd read this before. Sad news.

Bo Diddley Bo Jackson Bo Derek

Steve Lacy: Saxophone Special (Emanem)

Roy Orbison Oscar Robertson Oedipus

Memphis Jamboree 1927 - 1936 (Yazoo)

James Worthy Kareem Magic

Rex Stout: A Right To Die I read a slew of Rex Stout's Nero Wolfe novels when I was younger. I saw this one at the library, decided to renew an old friendship, and had an enjoyable time..

Doug Flutie Mickey Bass The Sopranos

Jim Crow The Partridge Family The Baltimore Orioles

Maureen O'Hara Peter O'Toole Sadaharu Oh