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Clarinet Summit: In Concert at the Public Theatre (India Navigation)

Happy Birthday 2013!

I think that most of us can identify with that one.

Joy of Cooking Happy Felton Steve Gladd

Maybe Webb Pierce on Here I Am Drunk Again?

I've never regretted selling or trading anything. There's always other music to listen to.

Happy Nirthday! Wherever UB.

The Topic Title speaks for itself. Here are mine: Fat Domino: "Blueberry Hill" Chuck Berry: "Johnny B. Goode" The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan Ray Charles Story Vols. 1&2 Robert Johnson: King of the Delta Blues Singers The Best of Muddy Waters Hank Williams - a Best Of compilation Mississippi John Hurt: Today! Son House singing "Death Letter Blues" on the Newport Folk Festival 1965 compilation Jimmy Yancey: Chicago Piano Volume 1 Swan Silvertones: Love Lifted Me Bach: Cello Suites Mozart: Clarinet Concerto Jascha Hornstein conducting Mahler's Das Lied von der Erde Artur Schnabel playing Beethoven's Piano Sonatas and a few more to make it an even twenty: The Best of Little Walter Reverend Robert Wilkins (Piedmont) Elmore James on an old Kent album Bobby "Blue" Bland" "Stormy Monday" Otis Rush: "All Your Love (I Miss Loving)" I hope others will add their choices.

I have more than enough Blue Note recordings in my collection. I hope that others enjoy these new reissues.

Happy Birthday!

Wherever you be right now, go out and strike up a conversation with someone who looks interesting. If you can't do that, do some people watching and make up stories in your head about some of the people you see. Then maybe write some of those stories down in some form. Or find a comfortable peaceful place where you can think about and write down your dreams about what you'd like to do, where you might like to settle down and live, what kind of a person you'd like to become. Then think about how you can make some of those dreams into realities.

Not that I plan to listen to it, but I'll never be able to hear "Taxman" in the same way as I once did. Songwriters can often have a good sense of where other writers got their stuff from.

Spot Dick Jane (guess I'm really dating myself with this post.)

Hey, at this point in my life, the Beatles and the Beach Boys are not in the same universe I'm in.

Not that it matters, 47 years after the fact, but I think his comments were pretty much on the mark.

Yes - Poignant and sad. Thanks for sharing this.

Gardner McKay Brett Gardner Lady Brett Ashley

Normally, I would say if the book is about Bird, they should play Bird as accompaniment. But since Crouch's book seems to be as much (or more) about the times and milieu as it is about Bird, I agree with you.

Alonzo Mourning Eve Arden Night Train Lane

1969 Monk with an inexperienced rhythm section? I think I'll hold off until I know more.

Prez Prado Lester Young Kid Thomas

Julius LaRosa Ethel Mertz Vic Wertz

Sandy Koufax Sandy Amoros Sandy Becker (not a Brooklyn Dodger, but another native New Yorker and a NY TV personality)

Bluestown was a Boston based label (believe it or not) run by a guy nicknamed Skippy White who had a record store there - it may still be in business, for all I know. Guitar Nubbit was another artist on the Bluestown label. His records are worth hearing too. Wolf Records issued a CD, Bluestown Story Volume 1, which contains all of Alabama Watson's and Guitar Nubbit's released sides plus some unreleased material. I don't see it listed on Amazon, so perhaps it's almost as rare as the 45's. Trix was a label run by Pete Lowry, who did a lot of field recordings and who lived in my neck of the woods. Pete has since moved to Australia. edit: According to Ron Bartolucci's liner notes to the Wolf CD, Alabama Watson was a customer in Skippy White's record store, mentioned that he played and sang blues, and ended up recording. Also, according to the same liner notes, Guitar Nubbit (Alvin Hankerson) was a barber who had a shop close to Skippy White's. He used to play guitar in his shop and ended up recording. The McKinley James 45 (I have a copy somewhere in my garage) was recorded in 1966 in Macon in your home state, Jeff.

Thelonious Sphere Monk Friar Tuck Sister Sadie