Neal Pomea

Timothy Geithner/Woody Guthrie: Twins Separated at Birth?

Thanks! 1920-1940 is my favorite jazz decade!

If it's ok to include Cajun and Creole music, "honorable mentions" go to the following (primary time period included): Cajun Adam Hebert (1960s) Adam Landrenau (1960s) Austin Pitre (late 1940s-1960s) Belton Richard (1960s-1980s) Cleoma Breaux (1920s-30s) Clifford Breaux (1930s) Courtney Granger (2000s) Dewey Balfa (1950s-1990s) D.L. Menard (1960s work with Badeaux and the LA Aces) Eddie LeJeune (1980s) Gervais Quebedeaux (1970s work with Ambrose Thibodeaux) Happy Fats (1930s-60s) Harry Choates (1940s) Iry LeJeune (late 1940s-early 1950s) Jay Stutes (with Cleveland Crochet, 1950s, 60s) Joseph Falcon (1920s-30s) Lawrence Walker (1930s, but especially 1950s-60s) Lee Man Prejean (1960s-70s) Lennis Sonnier (with Hackberry Ramblers, 1930s, 1960s) Leo Soileau (1920s-30s) Marie Solange Falcon (1940s-50s) Moise Robin (1920s-30s) Nathan Abshire (1940s-1970s) Octa Clark (1960s-80s) Philip Alleman (with Aldus Roger, 1960s) Preston Manuel (1970s) Robert Bertrand (1950s-60s) Robert Jardell (1970s-present) Rodney Balfa (1960s-70s) Rodney LeJeune (1960s) Roy Fusilier (1960s-70s) Shirley Bergeron (1950s-60s) Vinesse LeJeune (with Sidney Brown, 1950s-60s) Vorance Barzas (with Maurice Barzas' Mamou Playboys, 1950s-1980s) Wallace "Cheese" Read (1950s-70s) for Creole music Amedé Ardoin (1920s-30s) Alphonse "Bois Sec" Ardoin, Canray Fontenot (1960s-80s) Lawrence "Black" Ardoin (1980s) Cedric Watson (2000s)

Blues Singer and Guitarist Preserved Virginia Traditions Glad I saw him not too too long ago on the national mall for the Smithsonian Folklife festival. Great interpreter of Skip James but mostly the Piedmont blues.

Of course!

Too bad my friend could never get him to play the Twist and Shout in Bethesda, MD when that was around. Snooks was too devout to travel or work on the Sabbath.

Dunn is a good signing for Washington. Now they can trade Nick Johnson, though I would rather have him at first and Dunn in left. Willy Mo Pena is probably out of the picture.

Thanks, jazztrain, for the information on Organ Grinder!

I don't find this "fad" odd at all. Nearly all the rare music I have gotten from Joe Bussard over the years has come on cassette dubs from his 78s. And that's a lot of jazz from the 1920s-30s. Why not? It's a great medium. It's bizarre to me to compare cassettes to 8-track tapes. Cassettes had a much longer career and currency than 8-track tapes, and they still are smaller and easier to carry than cds. It'll be a sad day when I buy my next car and it doesn't come with a cassette player, just a plug in for an iPod.

Thanks for the story! I was lucky to hear Claude Williams participate in a tour sponsored by the National Council for the Traditional Arts. Arhoolie put out a CD of one of the concerts, which also included Kenny Baker, Michael Doucet, Natalie McMaster, and Brendan Mulvihill. This was at Georgetown U. and it must have been 1995 as the notes indicate. Good review on the Arhoolie site! I remember him doing a wonderful "Going to Kansas City." ETA: here is the link: http://www.arhoolie.com/titles/434.shtml

Dixie Ramblers, "La Musique Encore Encore," Cajun French version of "The Music Goes Round and Round," the song done by Wingy Manone, Louis Prima and others, on Rare and Authentic Cajun (1928-1939), 4 cd set, JSP. Nice remasters by Chris King.

Congratulations on your preservation efforts, but in a lot of cases it disappears.

Interesting remarks about Joe Bussard. I think his collection will stay in private hands. He doesn't think archives and libraries make things accessible enough. In his own way, he has made a lot accessible. What you wrote about "cultural genocide" (or disappearance) is true for Cajun and Creole culture. Those who monopolize and hoard cultural treasures for which there has long been no market -- well, what's moral about that?

The collector's item is the music, not the original lp. What did you want? The music or the artifact? In this case it's the triumph of the idea over the physical. I read that kind of language about ideas being trumped by the physical on this board when the discussion was perpetual copyright.

Good luck to you, and to anyone in a similar situation! I hope you can keep in touch with your friends from the job!

Were test pressings of 78s on shellac done for the same reason? So that if a collector had a test pressing on 78, he could assume it is one of only ~3 or 4 copies?

What label was this version of Organ Grinder on, the one with Ikey Robinson on guitar? It's not listed at Red Hot Jazz. I love that song!

You could become a "friend of the library" for just about any academic library in the Washington Research Consortium (Georgetown, George Washington, American, Catholic, etc.) or University System of Maryland (University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland University College, Bowie State University, etc.). Some of these, including College Park, are open to the general public because they are federal depository libraries that house the print publications of the federal government.

"Will anyone be listening to our music in 50 years time?" What would they be doing, dancing to it instead?

Hope you had a good one and have an ever better New Year!

Christ was born on Christmas morn -- Cotton Top Mountain Sanctified Singers with Frankie Half-Pint Jaxon and Punch Miller.

Quoi simmo? 'Issimo Bundys

Organisraelite Organisyouwithme?

Glad the Nationals didn't sign him. I thought that would have been the wrong move.

John Fahey and his Orchestra: Om Shanthi Norris, from After the Ball