Neal Pomea

Pioneers of the Blues Revival, 2014, by Steven Cushing. Interviews with Pete Whelan, Sam Charters, Dick Waterman, Phil Spiro, Bob Koester, Dick Spottswood, Dave Evans, Gayle Wardlow, Chris Strachwitz etc. Really good chapters with Spiro, Spottswood, and Evans, in particular.

I heard they can make more challenges per game in the playoffs than in the regular season. I believe they can now have 2 challenges overruled before losing the chance for another one.

It's also the case that some teams have a national following outside their region and are just more popular. Think of the 2004 playoffs between the Yankees and Red Sox. Held interest way beyond the northeast. Then think of the historic 2005 World Series with Chicago White Sox (out to break their own curse) and Houston in its first and only World Series appearance. There was not much national interest at all. TV ratings were way down! They couldn't make a compelling narrative out of it, which I thought was amazing! Chicago Cubs hold more national interest than the White Sox. You can't really compare national interest in the Cubs with interest in the Astros, no matter the population or size of the regional market. When I was listening to the Toronto-Rangers game Friday the announcer said Toronto is the 4th largest city in North America. Mexico City, NY, LA, then Toronto. I had no idea! I also heard that Houston has surpassed Chicago for the 5th spot. Chicago is the Sixth City now.

Thanks Brad. I bet you are right, but somebody at MLB has some 'splainin' to do. Sounds like "You weren't out, therefore you are SAFE!" How would this have worked if Utley had simply stopped running halfway between 1st and 2nd, then Tejada missed touching 2nd base but Utley was called out, then the Dodgers appealed, then the umpires in NY reviewed it and agreed he was not out. Would Utley have been awarded 2nd base? Is so, that makes NO SENSE to me and I am sure to many other baseball fans. You have to run out the play and tag the base in order to be safe. That is rule number one in baseball. Since Utley never even tried to tag 2nd base. I can't see him being awarded the base. And all that is outside the discussion of whether or not it was a dirty slide. It's baseball 101. Nice win in Houston!!! Dallas "House of David" Keuchel!!

Utley never touched second base. How could he be safe? Tejada never put out Utley, but Utley also never got to second safely either. To me the play never came to a conclusion. The thing to do was to call Utley out for interference.

Harold Reynolds mentioned that the artificial turf may have been a factor. When he was with Seattle he used to do special exercises to avoid injury, especially to the back. Long time ago National Lampoon called it Astro-Concrete or Astro-Broken Glass!

Now you're chunking in there! (I repeat myself whenever someone mentions Loel Passe) Away with inter-league play so long as they don't even play by the same rules.

It's letting me burn a CD to iTunes and make a playlist that I can put on my iPod, but I can't play back any of my music stored in iTunes, It keeps saying it could not find the original file. Is this the same problem? Where are the files now? (Windows 7)

Some people said he was a bad ball hitter. His reply? "They all looked good to me!"

What a beautiful friend! Sorry he's gone.

Happy 60th! That'll be me in November.

Hope it's a good one!

The lady blues singer on the Boardwalk series was anachronistic. Had a more modern style than the old blues/jazz singers of the 20s, lot of melisma.. Was Queen Latifah that way too? I haven't seen the show but I just can't picture her belting it out as straight and no nonsense as Bessie or Ma Rainey.

He led a Texas Playboys group that performed 4th of July one year long ago at the Festival of American Folklife on the mall. He and the band played at my friend's club, Tornado Alley in Wheaton, Maryland for a very memorable performance. You knew it was going to be special because the area musicians showed up, no matter which genre: country, blues, rockabilly, etc. Herb Remington on steel, Leon Rauch on vocals. Can't remember the other Playboys. At the end of the night he and a group of Playboys headed out the door for a drink down the street, all dressed in their cowboy hats and red t-ties. Must have been a sight for the drunks who just happened to be on the sidewalk that night!

Baltimore city schools are open today. They could have opened this game to the public.

Happy Birthday!

It's probably just an urban legend, but my impression was that Scientology was more or less started as a bet between Hubbard and Heinlein that Hubbard could actually start a religion based vaguely on the lines of what is portrayed in Stranger in a Strange Land. Obviously the engram stuff got added later. I heard it was a bet between Hubbard and Harland Ellison, but I don't remember details. Scientology was founded in 1952. Stranger In a Strange Land was published in 1961. Harlan Ellison turned 18 in 1952 and was a student at Ohio State University, in his home state Ohio. Ellison said he was in high school when he met Hubbard. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O9AGVARpqdk

It's probably just an urban legend, but my impression was that Scientology was more or less started as a bet between Hubbard and Heinlein that Hubbard could actually start a religion based vaguely on the lines of what is portrayed in Stranger in a Strange Land. Obviously the engram stuff got added later. I heard it was a bet between Hubbard and Harland Ellison, but I don't remember details.

He also recorded two albums on Sonet: The Cajuns Volumes 1 & 2. Volume 1 has some dynamic music by The Balfa Brothers with Nathan Abshire.

He did an important Cajun recording live from Fred's Lounge in Mamou when the band had Revon Reed announcing, Sady Courville, Roy Fuselier, and Preston Manuel. This is Mamou Cajun Radio, Sonet lp 802, 1979

Is he on any of these McKinney Cotton Picker songs I have from Joe Bussard? 1. Milenburg Joys 2. Nobody's Sweetheart 3. Shim Me sha Wabble 4. Put it There 5. Stop Kidding 6. Zonky 7. Do Something 8. It's a Precious Thing Called Love 9. Hallabaloo 10. Selling That Stuff 11. Miss Hannah 12. I'd Love It 13. Baby Won't You Please Come Home 14. Peggy 15. If I Could Be With You 16. I Want a Little Girl 17. Do You Believe in Love 18. Never Swat a Fly

Chuck Guillory, Pauvre Hobo (Poor Hobo) http://www.npmusic.org/ChuckGuillory_Poor_Hobo.mp3 "Chuck Guillory, who alternates working as a merchant seaman and roughneck (oil-field worker), is thought of as the best fiddler in the region. He used to lead his own French string band (fiddle, guitar, steel guitar, piano, and drums) which played hill-billy and Cajun music in dance halls and nightclubs. His style is basically country-and-western, much like the fiddling on Nashville's Grand Ole Opry." notes from Harry Oster's field recording, late 1950s, Folksongs of the Louisiana Acadians. I love this French music standard and have many versions of it, but THIS is probably the most joyous one ever! Mike Doucet of Beausoleil provides the energetic mandolin solo, and brother David the guitar solo. Second fiddler Gervis Stanford on spirited shouts, Preston Manuel on vocal pretty close to the original lyrics by the Breaux Brothers. http://www.arhoolie.com/cajun-and-zydeco/chuck-guillory-grand-texas.html

What the hell does "improvisation over content" mean? Nothing very complicated. Whenever I ask what in the world King Oliver or Jelly Roll Morton have in common with free jazz, for example, and how in the world they can both be called jazz when their content is so different, their sound, their mood, etc., I am told on this board that what they share is not so much the content of their music as the spirit of improvisation which is the very heart of jazz. I don't think people are listening for improvisation but for sounds and moods that communicate with them. They may communicate with many people on this board, but not with a large percentage of music consumers in America, which was what I thought the article was about. A lot of genres weren't even included in the statistics.

I think when it comes to "jazz" most people just aren't going to appreciate improvisation over content. That's like venerating method acting over drama or a story. Don't know what Allen means by post-modern but it sounds like I've been post-historical for years! Presently appreciating music of the past and not appreciating contemporary music so much, without it meaning I am living in the past! Like Ali Farka Touré saying his Timbuktu is not at the end of the world, it's at the center!