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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.

Sounds like the majors know how to say Simon says. Threat of suing for copyright infringement catches the attention. On a tangent, Onion has this article on Google and privacy.Google Responds to Privacy Concerns (about Google Buzz)

What genre of music is YouTube blocking? I see many videos of copyrighted songs, even lots of YouTube links posted here, where you would think that's frowned upon. What is your son listening to? It's a rare take down, in my experience.

Thanks for posting! Columbus "Boy" Frugé lived into the 1980s. He is heard here playing accordion on two recordings from 1981. They are from 45 rpm records on a label called Buffalo. Johnny Richard was a drummer and James Thibodeaux a rhythm guitarist. Arnaudville Two Step Valse de LeBouef Saute crapaud! Ta queue va brûler! Mais prends courage, Elle va repousser. Va y donc, crapaud! L'hiver après prendre! Saute crapaud! Ta queue va brûler! Mets (mais?) chère Pauline Une tasse de café. Oh crapaud, Qui q'as fait ton gilet? C'est Rose Martin, La fille à maman.

I still don't see much balanced press coverage of this. Maybe the big story is this: How much does Google care about our privacy? Google would definitely NOT want that to be the story. They want it to be about Google as the non-judgmental host or conduit of information, but they will lose big time if the public begins to suspect that Google does not respect their privacy. To the person on the street, I bet it won't matter if viewers should have flagged the video instead of commented on it. Google's defense will sound like 'You should have said Simon says!' I bet most people on the street won't care if the list of most entertaining videos was generated by a 'bot or some hot shot. The issue will still be privacy. Anyway, it looks like the story may have run its course. For me, the bigger case is whether Google's settlement with the American Association of Publishers will allow it a preemptive monopoly of the market with Google Books.

From the Washington Post article on this story: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/24/AR2010022401170.html?hpid=sec-business "The prosecutor's case emphasized that the video had been viewed 5,500 times over the two months it was online, when it climbed to the top of Google Italy's "most entertaining" video list and had more than 80 comments, including users urging its removal. Google argued that it was unaware of the offensive material and acted swiftly to remove it after being notified by authorities, taking the video down within two hours." Sounds to me like Google was negligent. How could they have been unaware of their own "most entertaining" video list? And who are the "authorities" that finally got Google to delete its indexing? What about the users urging its removal? I am not satisfied with the press I have seen reporting on this. It's all so one-sided in favor of an absolute immunity for Google and supposed freedom of the Internet.

Can you explain what you mean by lacking in intensity, and why this kind of playing should be intense? I would say that Robbie Basho's music is quite intense, especially the music on his compilation, Guitar Soli. The Japanese sounding stuff is intense, such as Golden Shamrock.

Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin with Canray Fontenot - La Musique Creole The best portion of that cd was recorded by Dick Spottswood in Falls Church, Virginia in 1966 when Ardoin and Fontenot were returning to Louisiana from performing at the Newport Folk Festival. Probably the best black Creole music recorded since the 1930s. Accordion, fiddle, and triangle.

It's pretty much over for me. My favorites are ski jumping (by far) and luge, and they're pretty much done. I thought the first few days were exciting! Remember Wide World of Sports' opening, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat? To illustrate the agony of defeat, for years it had a clip of a ski jumper falling off the ski jump in Oberstdorf, Germany. I have been to that ski jump and it amazed me! Been a big fan of ski jumping ever since. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yvkT2uMnIY (see around 0:12-0:17)