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Don't spend or save your money responsibly! Charge your family bills to the public domain with a million years of copyright protection! Seriously, congratulations!

Roy Tucker returns uneasily from World War II and injury to the Brooklyn Dodgers. I loved this book when I was maybe 12.

A friend of mine recommended an album of Duke Ellington stuff played by Sun Ra. Is there really such an album or was my friend mixed up? What is the name? Do you recommend it?

Rockies pitcher Nicasio was knocked out by a Nationals batter's lined shot to the head in the first inning of last night's game. I hope he is going to be ok. Such a dangerous position being close to the batter!

I do this with the old blues players! People such as Charley Patton, Son House, Blind Blake, Blind Boy Fuller, Sonny Boy Williamson I, Blind Willie Johnson, Robert Johnson, Skip James, Furry Lewis, Miss. John Hurt, Bukka White, etc. and even later greats like Lightnin' Hopkins, Lightnin' Slim, Jimmy Reed. I think I played When the War Was On (Blind Willie Johnson) about 10 times in a row last time I heard it. Enjoyed it so much! There'll be old time country songs you want to hear the same way. Weems String Band's Greenback Dollar and Davy. A country string band with cello in it, not bowed bass.

Above are all good suggestions! Burnett and Rutherford (fiddle and banjo) Wade Mainer with the Morris Brothers Dock Boggs (banjo player and singer) Carolina Tarheels (Clarence Ashley, banjo player and singer) Blind Alfred Reed (fiddle accompaniment to powerful songs about poverty) Weems String Band (Joe Bussard's favorite!) and if you squint your eyes a bit and look farther down the road, you might be able to fit these French ones from Louisiana in there too: Amédé Ardoin (just about the root of Cajun and black Creole Louisiana music; legendary musician died young; complete recordings released on one set this year on Tompkins Square with improved sound) Dennis McGee (amazing fiddler and vocalist playing many kinds of forgotten European dances) Joseph Falcon and Cleoma Breaux (accordion and guitar, husband and wife team, who also threw in American tunes like Lulu's Back in Town, Going Down the Road Feeling Bad, Raise Your Windows High etc.) Soileau and Lafleur, and Soileau and Robin (accordion, fiddle duets with some blues) Blind Uncle Gaspard and Delma Lachney (guitar-fiddle duo, sort of "ballady" with a lot of storylines) I am going to get the Charlie Poole set soon myself! (Hey Allen!)

Enjoy it!

I saw one of the shows on the tour that was recorded for this cd Amazing show! Something of a mix up on the cover, though. Allison Krauss played the show I attended, but she could not appear on the cd due to her contract with another company. Great with MONroe, as he used to pronounce it! Wish I had heard him with Don Gibson.

Looks like it furthered the plot. Exposition Skavoovie! Check out the Hi Fi at 0:30.

Indeed I cried!

Nationals losing 5, 6 straight. Hope we don't go the way of the Mariners! Feel bad for their fans.... Our manager Jim Riggleman now works for the Giants.

Didn't Benny Goodman have to relearn how to play? Henry Red Allen could play a range of musical styles.

It beats selling beer in the seats! Looks like a back-breaking job!

Illinois Jacquet, when he grew into Midwest Jacquet.

Not really a terminology question, I guess, but why is it verboten to link to music downloads or even God forbid speak the name of sites that provide links, but it's perfectly fine to link to YouTube videos that are every bit as much under copyright as songs? Never quite understood this. Sometimes the very person who is an absolutist about music mp3s unhesitatingly links to YouTube video clips of copyrighted material.

Jelly Roll Morton, Hesitation Blues, Complete Library of Congress recordings, from 1938, the Jungle Inn in Washington D.C.

I hope the Nationals don't commit 5 errors in today's game with the Braves! That was ugly last night. Opposing teams bat around .285 against Livan Hernandez. I don't see how he's a number one starter other than the fact that he eats up innings and can bunt and field well.

Good tip! Thanks.

Brownie McGhee to Sonny Terry on Down by the Riverside: "How do you feel about it, buddy?" Brownie McGhee to Sonny Terry on Walk On: "Let's walk together now!"

Orson Bean mentioned Dylan and folk rock, so I doubt this clip could have been before 65. In 64 Dylan wasn't electrified yet, I thought. At least not at Newport.

The Washington Nationals are slightly ahead of where I expected them to be. Werth, LaRoche, and Ankiel are the biggest disappointments in the field, Burnett in the bullpen. But Espinosa, Morse, and Nix are exceeding expectations. Just hope we haven't burned out our bullpen too much. This week will be a much needed break. I think we will end up about 4 games below .500.

Cajun great from the 60s-70s Doris Matte, J'aimerais danser avec toi. He could really sing in that Belton Richard style. Sounds like the melody Dewey Balfa copped for his song J'ai pleurer.

Memphis Slim did some work on harpsichord. Ain't Nothing but a Texas Boogie on a Harpsichord, from the album Southside Reunion. Buddy Guy and A.C. Reed are on this one.

I thought his documentary on World War II was well done. Will never surpass World at War, but it had a different focus altogether. It was seriously off the mark by not including country music, especially in its coverage of Mobile, and the fact that charging Japanese waves shouted to hell with Roy Acuff.

Don't put much stock in the All Star team selections, but glad to see Tyler Clippard of the Nationals on board, which is not common for set up relievers. Danny Espinosa'a BA is not the best but he is the sluggingest second baseman in the NL (majors?) this year and probably the Gold Glove winner and really should be on the All Stars, IMO.