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I like this group, too, the Foghorn String Band. They play "both" kinds of music: AM and FM (American music and French music!) http://foghornstringband.com/2010/11/16/foghorn-trio-tours-alaska/foghorntrio-3428-3/ I caught them backing up Jesse Lege and Joel Savoy doing Cajun music! Red Stick Ramblers. More swing country, less Cajun than you would think. My Suitcase is Always Packed. http://www.redstickramblers.com/music.html (The leader, Linzay Young, even played a prominent role in the boucherie that Tony Bourdain visited on the Travel Network food show, No Reservations!)

Oh God, the family around the dinner table! That was hilarious!

South Carolina Broadcasters are three people playing guitars, fiddle, and banjo. Great old time singing! (Great name, reminding me of Da Costa Walz' Southern Broadcasters) This is how they do the Delmore Brothers' Take Away This Lonesome Day. I had to play it over and over again! http://scbroadcaster.bandcamp.com/track/take-away-this-lonesome-day This one is a duet of David Sheppard and Ivy Lindley Sheppard.

I liked both Jerry Lewis and Eddie Murphy in The Nutty Professor. Trading Places was another good Murphy movie.

Glad to see that Ian Desmond, DC shortstop, was named as a reserve to the NL All Star team. Very deserving.

I am still partial to 1960s slapstick like Flim-Flam Man and It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. Just about anything with Peter Sellers. More recent movies I thought were funny include Groundhog Day and The Life Aquatic of Steve Zissou. The Crimson Permanent Assurance short.

Jimmy Reed? Big influence in Louisiana. Paul "Little Buck" Sinegal with Clifton Chenier's band and later C.J. Chenier.

Yes, thanks, I meant noise reduction.

No. 959 came in this week! Glad to see that quite a few of the Fletcher Henderson titles do not match my Hendersons from Joe Bussard 78s. Somebody said sound reduction can be overdone, which is true, but my Joe B stuff is pretty mossy at times. I appreciate the remastering on the Henderson tunes I have heard before.

Things you could say about your political opponent that sounded scandalous but really weren't (outdated) "His sister is a well-known thespian."

Marie is only six years old Information please Help them put me through to her In Memphis Tennessee http://npmusic.org/Robert_Bertrand_Joel_Sonnier_Memphis.mp3 Jo-El Sonnier with Robert Bertrand's band.

Too bad Webster didn't go even further and try to straighten out our o vowel and words with "ough" pronounced so many different ways! Though it be rough to go through a cough, I thought ...

He's having a fine season! Hope we don't have to face him many times this year.

Never mind! I figured out where to plug the cable I was using with the old computer into the new one.

"By year’s end a paper version of the Times-Pic will be available only on Wednesdays, Fridays and Sundays. No more Monday recaps of Saints games in print. And let’s imagine the frantic raids on recycling bins next crawfish season in the metro area. Can you even have a crawfish boil and not cover the table with newspaper?" http://www.theind.com/re/10610-the-digitally-divided

You might enjoy Maddox's take on the word "epic." http://thebestpageintheuniverse.net/c.cgi?u=epic

La Misère à Mon Beau-Pére (My Father-in-law's Misery). Bingo! (Sidney Brown & His French Accordion, on the 10th anniversary of my Cajun French music website!) http://npmusic.org/05Sidney_Brown_and_his_French_Accordion_La_Misere_de_Mon_Beau_Pere.mp3

Love the iPOD. Wish it were easier to go through my menu when it's plugged into the car radio. Can't wheel around quickly. Gotta click a million times to go through my alphabetized playlist arranged by artist or album. I am not as distracted as someone text messaging, but it can't be good. Sweet set up, Mr. Marcello!

Recently got a new computer and don't know how to handle this. I used to connect an RCA cable from my stereo to my computer and digitize lp records, 45s, cassette tapes, etc. The cable ended with a red and a white prong that I inserted into a Radio Shack attachment that I inserted into my computer. It went from 2 prongs to one and I plugged that in. But now when I try to plug the cable in to my new computer (I tried several such possible spots), nothing happens. I don't know if the new computer is going to accommodate this. Do I need to switch to an RCA cable that can be plugged into one of the USB ports on my new computer? Does it matter which USB port I plug it into? (This might be a simple Radio Shack question, so don't laugh at me for not knowing!)

Prolly (yes, that's very prollable) I am just glad it's ok to pronounce February without the r after the b, or Connecticut without the c after the e!

It comes from the recorders in response to their market at large imo. This goes almost double for Cajun French music. Some musicians I know of have even asked to hide their identities out of a sense of cultural shame. I don't think the regional recorders of the music had much pride in preserving this information. Probably not an uncommon phenomenon around the world.

Balfa Brothers Play Traditional Cajun Music (their first 2 Swallow lps plus some singles that never made it to the lp era much less CD): http://www.amazon.com/Traditional-Cajun-Music-Balfa-Brothers/dp/B005UXV5TM/ref=sr_1_cc_1?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1337630514&sr=1-1-catcorr Floyd's Early Cajun Singles: http://www.amazon.com/Floyds-Early-Cajun-Singles/dp/B00002M7YE/ref=cm_cr-mr-title Nathan Abshire, Pine Grove Blues and Good Times Killing Me http://www.amazon.com/Pine-Grove-Blues-Times-Killing/dp/B000026EX4/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337630383&sr=8-1 A few others in the area of Cajun French music.

RIP. That Fantastic Expedition lp is an all-time favorite. Much more "progressive" than his stuff with The Darlings. Remember The Darlings on the Andy Griffith Show? the Dillards were in those episodes. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVzPkSzb6jI

2-1 score in Cincinnati's ballpark is kind of rare! Good series win over the Redlegs, who are a pretty tough team. (Fingers crossed for no rain outs or rotation disruptions over the next few days, because I am going to a day game on Tuesday in the Columbian District with Strasburg scheduled to pitch against the Padres.)

I want to be clearer about the sense in which I meant the Monk comment above. Of course we can talk about music. We do it all the time on this board and elsewhere! One of my heroes is Dick Spottswood, who jokingly calls his radio show the Obsolete Music Hour. No offense, Dick (or clander), but I just think that calling any genre of music either obsolete or relevant is as off point as dancing about architecture. Obsolete and relevant do not apply, imo.