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Great duet with Richard Manuel on Whispering Pines! I remember Marcus Van Story of the Sun Rhythm section telling us in the kitchen at the Twist and Shout club in Bethesda Maryland that everyone knew him as luh VONN in Arkansas, but the Hawks could not pronounce his name so it morphed into LEE vonn.

Houston will be in the AL West beginning next season in order to even out the divisions. Currently there are only LA of Anaheim, Oakland, Seattle, and Texas. It's the only division like it. It will be fairer to the other divisions if there is more competition for the top spot. I felt that Milwaukee should have been the one reassigned to the AL since they started there.

After their current four game series with Washington is over, I sort of wish the Astros would stun MLB and go on a rampage! If they made it to the post-season or even won it all it would serve Selig right for moving them to the AL West next season.

I think it's fitting that baseball honors Jackie Robinson this way. Seems like I know next to nothing about the first blacks in the NFL and NBA.

OT. I remember thinking Whiter Shade of Pale by Procol Harum was a belly-rubbing "swamp pop" song a la Rod Bernard, Johnnie Allen, T.K. Hulin, Warren Storm, Tommy McClain, Charles Mann, and G.G. Shinn! Guess I was not paying attention to those creepy lyrics. Haven't kept up with the "prog rock" my friends introduced to me, but I still hear the countrypolitan music I used to hear on the radio in my pre-teen and teen years. The dancehall Cajun music of the 60s-70s has really not been equalled, surpassed, or improved upon by the bands of Renaissance era of the 70s and beyond, imo.

This is the most footage I have seen of IoW! Thanks for the link.

Sounds like the bartender put money in the jukebox, then he matched that amount just to keep it going.

NL East Braves NL Central Cardinals AL West Giants WCs Phillies, Dodgers (long shot) AL East Yankees AL Central Indians (long long long shot) AL West Angels WCs Rays, Tigers

The season began in Japan with two games last week between the Athletics and the Mariners. They were official games and they split.

Have a happy one!

Thanks Moms! Enjoyed that. http://npmusic.org/StoryofBonnieandClyde.mp3 The Story of Bonnie and Clyde http://npmusic.org/StoryofBonnieandClyde.mp3 http://npmusic.org/WantedMan.mp3 Wanted Man (nice Dylan tune in the tradition of John Wesley Harding) http://npmusic.org/WantedMan.mp3 (links weren't showing up for me in Firefox 10.0.2)

I've got some of those late Flatt and Scruggs Columbia lps, like the one with Dylan songs, the Story of Bonnie and Clyde (Tom T Hall songs), etc., but the deserted island one for me is Final Fling, One Last Time (Just for Kicks). Best version of Dylan's Wanted Man, a song he wrote for Johnny Cash at the time of the Nashville Skyline album. http://earlscruggs.com/colcd6476.html

If I listened to my iPod stand alone, with earphones, I would probably want several, by genre. I could wheel to the playlist I want. But I listen to it plugged into my car's media hub, where I have to press a forward button through each entry in a set of playlists from A-Z until I get to what I want to hear. It can take a while to reach the playlists in the middle of the alphabet! I can start at A and go forward or at Z and go backward, but getting to K and L takes a while. It's not like wheeling to the right playlist. I could probably shuffle playlists but I don't. Should I order by album instead of playlist? I have a feeling I am not looking at this right.

"Though, once again, the jazz world is fond of saying that its music is America's sole original artistic contribution, they leave out, at their own historic peril, country and hillbilly music, ragtime and show music, minstrelsy and Tin Pan Alley, not to mention gospel, rhythm and blues and rock and roll." It's a minor point but I would also include Cajun, Creole, and zydeco music. They could never have occurred anywhere but here in the melting pot. I do not think they are subsets of country or hillbilly music the way bluegrass is. Same goes for Tex-Mex or Hawaiian. Maybe hip hop (rap) is the most culturally specific music around that you listen to today, but there are others. Unless I misunderstand what you meant by culturally specific. What DO you mean by culturally specific? Carry on!

The Edge of Night and Secret Storm fan here. And Kolchak, Night Stalker.

Clarence Williams on Columbia (Frog DGF14) Really enjoying Clarence Williams' Jazz Kings, Gravier Street Blues and Candy Lips!

Washington sent Bryce Harper to AAA to start the season and plans to try him out at centerfield. He will probably be in MLB by mid-summer. http://www.washingtonpost.com/sports/nationals/nationals-send-bryce-harper-back-to-the-minor-leagues-where-hell-play-center-field/2012/03/18/gIQA747XLS_story.html

I disagree. It is not important to me or transparent at all to know that entries were written by IP address numbers and user names like nedsexy, petuniablossom, etc. compared to knowing that EP was written with the brand name of a publisher with a pedigree. The same goes for a host of other traditional reference book publishers. It seems to me that we are throwing that out for the sake of crowd sourcing, showing little regard or appreciation for the publishing and vetting process. I say that as someone who has contributed to Wikipedia entries myself. Witnessing the process first hand makes me largely distrust it.

The study in Nature had only to do with Science entries in Brittanica and Wikipedia. There are many non-obscure topics that are not in the area of science. It could be that the scientific community is contributing to Wikipedia articles, but that is not the same as saying Wikipedia is as accurate overall as EB or as well written and documented.

I don't often use encyclopedias, but if it's $70 for an annual subscription to EB online, that's worth it. It's a shame if that price is going to be too steep for families who opt for Wikipedia instead. But that's how it is when money is tight.

Happy Birthday! Good luck with your baseball season.

I usually just click the View New Content and go from there. I rarely open a forum directly. Seldom seen: Announcements organissimo -- The band discussion Forums Discussion Album of the Week Blindfold Test Classical Discussion Live Shows & Festivals Musicians' Forum New Releases Offering & Looking For Hammond Zone

Going backward (but not recent at all), these are identifiable -- Herbie Nichols, Monk, Ellington, Oliver, Morton

For those of us who like pictures of record labels, check out these at Hillbilly Researcher! http://hillbilly-researcher.blogspot.com/ Lots of small labels I never heard of!

Got it in the mail today and I'm listening right now. Nice remastering! Some fine Eddie Lang with Texas Alexander and Clarence Williams & His Novelty Four. Big fan of Butterbeans and Susie here!