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Great record - perhaps my favorite Jaki Byard Just listened to: Texas Rhythm & Blues (Ace UK) - Connie Mack Booker, Quinn Kimble, Clarence "Bon Ton" Garlow, and burning guitar by Cal Green all over side one.

Sonny Rollins w. Cherry, Grimes, Higgins - 2/20/63 (RCA/France)

Thinking about this thread made me realize that I probably haven't listened to anything in my collection more than twice over the past year. It also made me think back to when I was twenty and didn't own a lot of records. I listened to what I did have over and over, and knew my collection pretty well. That wasn't such a bad thing.

The Best of Jimmy McCracklin with Lafayette Thomas (Chess/P-Vine - Japan)

Already mentioned: Chuck, Leiber and Stoller, Smokey, Goffin/King. How about Doc Pomus and Mort Shuman? And Hank Williams has been gone for over 50 years, but not much more than that. More recently: Dan Hicks, John Sebastian, Jesse Winchester, and Jake Jacobs are personal favorites. Merle Haggard is still at it. Apologies if anyone has mentioned them and I missed it.

Haven't been on Board much lately, so apologies for being VERY late. Belated happy birthday wishes to a much valued Board member.

Paul Auster: Hand to Mouth

Brew Moore, Allen Eager, Stan Getz, Al Cohn, Serge Chaloff: Brothers and Other Mothers (Savoy)

I hope that your first DWI will be your last. Good to read that you're trying to take care of yourself.

(Very) late vote for pumpkin. Sweet potatoes are just too damn sweet for my palate - be they in a pie or elsewhere.

You won't regret it I'm positive that you've heard of Roswell Rudd, and he's featured on this recording.

Cookin' with the Miles Davis Quintet (Analogue Productions 45)

Agreed. Same goes for Nuba- Andrew Cyrille/Jimmy Lyons/ Jeanne Lee, IMO. Edited - mentioned one that was included.

If saying who you are was a criterion for posting, this board would have damn few members. ← Not unless you're prone to personally attack people as Clem tends to do. So long as his real identity is shadowed as it is, he can continue the immature attacks. ← True in theory. In reality, this seems to be mainly about Allen and Clem. Clem knows how to push Allen's buttons, and Allen takes the bait every time. It's his decision whether he responds to Clem, and he chooses to.

Rex Stewart & Johnny Hodges sessions of 3/7/41 (RCA/France) - amazing amount of great music recorded that day. Johnny Hodges: Blues A-Plenty (Verve/Classic)

If saying who you are was a criterion for posting, this board would have damn few members.

"IMHO" - Why are people so upset over an opinion? He's got his, you've got yours. In a week, no one will remember.

In the 1980's, Emarcy/Japan did a 2 CD reissue of Ben Webster's Emarcy recordings. It was also released in the U.S. at that time. I suspect that it's long out of print - 'bout time for Verve, Mosaic, or somebody to do a reissue of the reissue.

W.P. Kinsella: The Secret of the Northern Lights - Silas Ermineskin stories

I've never heard Confessin' the Blues, but in general I don't like BB's Bluesway recordings anywhere near as much as the sides he recorded for RPM/Modern/Kent - now reissued on Ace/UK. One exception is Blues Is King - (you've mentioned that you already have that one, Dan) - which to my ears is his best live album - better than the revered Live at the Regal.

Just arrived: Beavis and Butt-Head: The Mike Judge Collection Volume 1 - Includes some of their music video commentaries, so it kind of fits in the What Music thing. Integrale Django Reinhardt Vol. 20 (Fremeaux)

I cut my own hair for about 25 years. Now I have it cut by a female stylist. When my wife and I first met, we found out that we both had our hair cut at the same place and by the same woman - though we never ran into each other there. She still cuts our hair.

I doubt that in 1957 anyone (including Trane) could have predicted where Trane's music would be ten years later. Why should anyone try to predict where it might have gone had he lived past 1967?

Memphis Swamp Jam (Blue Thumb) - side D. Very fine late Furry Lewis and cuts by "R.L.Watson & Josiah Jones", who turned out to be John Fahey and (I believe) Mike Stewart or Bill Barth - don't have the Arhoolie reissue where the true identities of the players are revealed.

This makes me mention Al Francis. ← Yeah - I thought about Al Francis when I posted. He's at least one up on Earl, though.