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Here is the label for Easy Rider Blues Soileau and Robin, Easy Rider Blues Great performance on CD 9!

Happy Birthday!

http://www.redhotjazz.com/noone.html That might help.

A good pitching performance tonight against the Rockies for Livan Hernandez might put Washington atop the pitching triple crown standings: Livan Hernandez for era, Tyler Clippard for wins, and Matt Capps for saves. Much improved over last year! Clippard's on a pace to match Elroy Face (18-1 in '59)!

I don't think this article quite comes across the way it was intended. If Art Pepper HAD caused someone's death or injury in an episode of drug-induced negligence, we would not be congratulating his wife for keeping his intellectual property wealth off the table in a lawsuit by the victim's family. I bet, for the average reader, long copyright terms mean money for nothing for the heirs of the owners of companies that bought out earlier defunct companies that ripped off artists. Let artists provide for their families with real wealth handed down, and let the heirs create on their own.

Got my Volume 1 in the mail Saturday! Great job with the sound! Thanks for preserving this music. So much of it was news to me, so I don't know where to start. I've got quite a bit of Butterbeans and Susie from Joe Bussard, and some Hersal Thomas too, so I will have to go back and listen more closely to the kind of humor you wrote about. I really liked the Bennie Moten piece on CD3. My copy from Joe B. was so mossy. This is going to be a great set to hear!

This must be the first series the Nationals have won over the Marlins in a while. They've had our number the last few years. Well, most teams have.

Good points on catchphrases. 12 Things We Should Toss (Wash Post, 5/9/2010) Internet Memes - Joe Randazzo, editor of the Onion "At some recent point, bacon became a meme. Bacon. The cured pork product that has been a staple food for hundreds of years was suddenly a fashion accessory for Internet style-mongers. There were odes and T-shirts and cartoons. People taped bacon to their cats and took photos. It was so ubiquitous that I started to hate bacon. No one should ever have to hate bacon. What used to be an amusing by-product of Internet use has mutated into something horrible: an insatiable parasite that impairs its host's judgment, rendering it totally useless. Instead of acting as an organic cultural touchstone, the modern meme -- from LOL... to Lolcats -- now sucks the joy out of our interconnectedness. It destroys uniqueness. Once an "enjoyable thing" becomes a "meme," we stop enjoying the thing for its own sake, but consume and regurgitate our enjoyment of it as a symbol of hipness, as if to say: "I am aware of this thing's popularity --- therefore I too exist!" ______ Also, why meme? We already had a word for that. Catchphrase. Another one. Fad. Here are 2 I hate. Much. And Hmmm? "Biting the hand that feeds you much? Hmmmm?"

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Back in the day, I too sucked up all the cajun I could lay my hands on - good, bad, really bad. So I understand about that. But nothing stays the same, especially in terms of South Louisiana music, which as much as any other genre/region is pretty much founded on beg/borrow/steal. Steel guitar/pedal steel was not part of the original cajun equation, but there's no question it's presence has enhanced countless post-WWII sides. And then there's Belton Richard playing accordian on Johnnie Allan's Promised Land - the best Chuck Berry cover ever! Or Johnny Sonnier doing The Devil Went Down To New Iberia. Not to stray too far from MG's topic, but have you heard Joel Sonnier do Chuck Berry's song Memphis? It was with Robert Bertrand and the Lake Charles Playboys. Great! I think many of the older guys were actually closer to the rock and roll spirit than the younger guys. Sung in English, you can even hear Joel's accent when he sings "Hep me information, more dan dis I cannot axe." Great use of steel guitar and fiddle on a rocking number. Memphis. I certainly don't have anything against steel guitar in Cajun music. That's probably the stuff I love the best. No, I mean the out of whack, busy bass guitar that you even hear sometimes in greats like Aldus Roger. He has two lps on La Louisianne that have either a simple bass or an electric guitar doing barre chords. They're great. A third lp has a too-slick swing bass in it and it's just about unlistenable, even for an icon like Aldus. If you like steel guitar, here are some YouTube videos of Arcange 'Coon' Touchet of the original Badeaux and the Louisiana Aces:

Somebody needed to tell Matt Diaz of the Braves not to take so many called third strikes last night! (Same for Adam Dunn of the Nationals, I know!) A near no-hitter for Scott Olson and the Nationals still could have lost that game! Well, at least some of last year's dread in the late innings seems to be going away.

That sounds familiar, Dan. There's some sort of dread over in Nationals Land about what will happen to him in 2012.

I don't understand contracts too much, but I believe that the reason Strassburg will not be up before June is in order to secure sole rights to his contract for a longer period of time. If the Nationals brought him up any sooner, then he would become a free agent sooner. It's discussed that way on Nationals Journal, the Washington Post's online discussion group. Anyway, the kid is like 21 years old and has no record of pitching past the 5th inning in the minors, so he probably also needs some minor league work. The one I want to see sooner rather than later is Drew Storen, a reliever. The bullpen could turn into our strength rather than the disaster it's been since 2006, but especially last year.

I would say that in the area of Cajun music I can distinguish between what's good and what's mediocre. I have a friend who collects it all, and he seems just as excited acquiring stuff that's mediocre as he does the stuff that's good. I just shake my head. How about this, MG? Could you point out to the people making the mediocre stuff what they are doing wrong? I know there are some Cajun musicians who think they are improving the music by adding a walking bass or by syncopating in rock style or playing fast when really, they're just messing it up altogether. Addition by subtraction sometimes. The simpler can be better.

Braves-Nationals game tonight is see-sawing through 5 innings. I don't know how many times there have been ties and lead changes. Lots of hitting for a 4-4 game.

Happy Birthday! And many more.

Don't worry. Your Braves can quickly gain ground by sweeping my team Washington when they meet! I have a feeling since we have done so well against the Phils, Mets, Rockies, and Dodgers, we will have a hard time with the Braves, Cardinals, Brewers, and Giants!

Easy Rider Blues, Soileau and Robin (for Leo Soileau and Moise Robin), per Tony Russell's book.

Thanks for your reply. What settings are you using for that old music? 128 kbps, 96?

I think I am going to try this with Goldwave. So far I have only used it to digitize records and tapes, but it looks like it can be used to merge sound files of different types in a sequence. Does anyone have experience with that function of Goldwave? It looks like I need to record voice files and save them, then arrange them in a sequence with song files upon which I make comments. Then save everything as mp4 or m4a files so that the 'cast can be played back in Itunes or Quicktime. Could anyone offer me some tech guidance with that? thanks!

Could someone recommend an easy podcasting program that a Windows XP user like me could use to start up a new podcast? Thanks!

6th save for our man Capps (the Washingnut Expose), and an 8-inning pitching performance by Stammen. Lowest fan turnout since returning to town. The Post would rather talk about off-off-off-season pro football.

Another win for the Internats! Hope we can get Ryan Zimmerman back on the field in good shape.

Nice come from behind win for the Washington Internationals (Internats) over Phillies, 7-5. Our closer, Capps, is 4 for 4 in save opportunities, but he gives us heartburn every time he's out there.

They ought to award that lady from Mobile in Ken Burns' documentary, The War. She made war a three syllable word! Come to think of it, there should have been some country music in that documentary too. If they had included Orange, Texas instead of Mobile as an example of a southern shipbuilding boom town with all the prejudices of Mobile, they could have had Texas Swing and Cajun!