Neal Pomea

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!

Congratulations! I know you put a lot of work in it, and it will certainly contribute to our knowledge.

He once sold chicken starter mash on the Mother's Best radio shows. Now he's won a Pullet Surprise. Well deserved. Previous winners from the jazz world.

Nice win for Washington over Philadelphia yesterday, when the game see-sawed back and forth. Now, if we could only change our name to Internationals, we could be the Internats (instead of Nats). I am convinced that the multitudes embracing the word Nats, which sounds like Gnats, are jinxing us to hell.

Prohibition Blues, The Missourians

Happy birthday to you!

Yes, I agree about Patty Loveless. Her version of Busted is great! In fact, much closer to the spirit of the tune and lyrics than Ray Charles' overproduced version, imo. For Norman Blake, Blind Dog has the songs I enjoy most.

Two Bill Kirchen albums to recommend: Tombstone Every Mile, and Have Love Will Travel. I am sure his others are also good. I was lucky to hear him many, many times when he was headquartered a few years in Maryland.

baseball hat All my life it's been a baseball cap, not a baseball hat, but I am assured rudely on Reddit and elsewhere that a cap is a kind of hat (I knew that) and I am given a link to the Wikipedia article on hats. Has a generation lost the meaning of the word cap?

Has anyone mentioned The Gourds? Tift Merritt?

"But to me it is not the music itself that is evolving or developing at all. That's a metaphor with limitations." What I mean is that the metaphor of evolution or development tends to have the connotation that the later is better than the earlier, and that is an unfortunate connotation.

But to me it is not the music itself that is evolving or developing at all. That's a metaphor with limitations. It's the people playing it who are now different from the older players. They just want to do something new to fit their contemporary context or experience the thrill of discovery/recovery. Yes, I use the word recovery as well as discovery, and I mean to give it praise. I may have misunderstood earlier remarks about a subsequent generation stumbling upon what an earlier generation originally discovered, but I don't see why this needs to be described as more of a technical thing rather than art or tapping into the great unknown itself. Then again, I may have misunderstood. I subscribe to Ralph Rinzler's quote, "As is always the case, the art of a vital people speaks eloquently for those who create and recreate it." (emphasis mine). Recreation/recovery is as much a part of what is done in traditional music as creation is and deserves credit rather than dismissal, imo. Carry on.

From the Cajun and Creole side of life, forget the recent Grammy nominees and recipients for the newly established Zydeco/Cajun category, and try these: (on Valcour records) Joel Savoy/Linzay Young (self-titled) Feu Follet (Cow Island Hop) Cedric Watson (on Arhoolie and LionsGate) Pine Leaf Boys (on Swallow) Lost Bayou Ramblers and Mello Joy Boys

Could this be moved to the Audio forum? I looked for this topic and couldn't find it. I even searched every forum on the term ipod in this native interface and on Google and it must have been too old to turn up in the search. I have a new ipod Nano generation 5. Loaded a library of music and wanted it to display artist, album, and song name in my car but it seemed to go straight to a bunch of songs (from cd burns) that listed only Track 1, Track 2. Etc. Now I am working on creating Playlists by Artist Name to see if that kind of indexing will work better in my car. I had to open Itunes and hit Control I to access and edit some indexing information on a bunch of songs. Question about deleting songs from an ipod. I don't want to sync my whole library, just selected playlists. Should I remove songs from the library before syncing playlists? Sorry if this is obvious, but I don't find very much to be obvious about it, including using the term sync instead of save.

Isn't this the same one called Quiet Kenny?

If Boomers are the Me Generation, does that make Millennials the iGeneration? Hard to believe that what holds a generation together are tattoos, piercings, and a disdain for newspapers.

Hey! I sent a bunch of good suggestions and even copies of Cajun stuff. Why didn't any of it make it into this collection? Anyway, congratulations on this massive project.