Neal Pomea

I hope she will be able to talk out of both mouths and say different things at the same time! Destined for a life in politics...

For Cajun music visit my Web site at http://www.npmusic.org/artists.html See the areas on 1920s-30s and Joseph Falcon For the Cajun string band music of the 1930s go to Arhoolie for Cajun Breakdown at http://www.arhoolie.com/titles/7014.shtml

Down in the Basement: Joe Bussard's Treasure Trove of Vintage 78s 1926-1937 The Stuff that Dreams are Made Of American Primitive Vol. 1 and Vol. 2 (on Revenant) all good releases from the past few years.

Digitizing more shellac from Joe Bussard Preston Jackson & His Uptown Band Jeanette James & Her Synco Jazzers Celestin’s Original Tuxedo Jazz Orch. Joe Manone’s Harmony Kings Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Band Neal Montgomery & His Orch. Fowler’s Favorites Jones & Collins’ Astoria Hot Eight Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders Joe Bussard 78s Hot Jazz of the 1920s Side 2 J-1 1. Preston Jackson & His Uptown Band: It’s Tight Jim 2. Jeanette James & Her Synco Jazzers: The Bumps 3. Celestin’s Original Tuxedo Jazz Orch.: Dear Almanzoer 4. Papa’s Got the Jim-Jims 5. It’s Jam Up 6. Joe Manone’s Harmony Kings: Cat’s Head 7. Jimmy Bertrand’s Washboard Band: Little Bits 8. Neal Montgomery & His Orch.: Atlanta Low Down 9. Auburn Avenue Stomp 10. Fowler’s Favorites: Hot Strut 11. Percolatin’ Blues 12. Jones & Collins’ Astoria Hot Eight: Astoria Strut 13. Duet Stomp 14 Paul Howard’s Quality Serenaders: Stuff Stomp 15. The Ramble 4-3-08

Digitizing more shellac from Joe Bussard: Arthur Sims’ Creole Roof Orch. The Missourians Thomas Morris & His 7 Hot Babies Thomas Morris Past Jazz Masters Perry Bradford’s Jazz Phools Joe Bussard 78s Hot Jazz of the 1920s Side 1 J-1 1. Arthur Sims’ Creole Roof Orch.: How Do You Like It Blues 2. Soapstick Blues 3. The Missourians: Missouri Moan 4. Market Street Stomp 5. I’ve Got Someone 6. Vine Street Drag 7. Prohibition Blues 8. Thomas Morris and His 7 Hot Babies: Those Blues 9. Thomas Morris Past Jazz Masters: Beaucoup de Jazz 10. Thomas Morris and His 7 Hot Babies: Charleston Stampede 11. The Mess 12. Lazy Drag 13. Perry Bradford’s Jazz Phools: Day Break Blues 14 Fade Away Blues 15. Rock, Jenny, Rock 4-3-08

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You can get a good idea of the early days of Zydeco from the program playing Saturday from 7-10. Doesn't have anything to do with country music, but the music being played is very good! I am hearing vintage Clifton Chenier right now.

This link does a good job explaining it: http://www.lsue.edu/acadgate/music/history.htm It would have been more appropriate to include Cajun music, which is like the country music of the French speaking Cajuns, than Zydeco, which began as a mix of Creole and blues, rhythm and blues and rock and roll but now is mixed with hip hop and soul. Including Zydeco in the program is about like including electric blues music like Muddy Waters and Bobby Blue Bland. This Web site that I authored represents Cajun music from the 20s to the 60s basically: http://npmusic.org (Didn't mean to shanghai the thread! The radio program looks interesting!)

Someone at that radio station doesn't know what Zydeco music is or doesn't know the difference between Zydeco, Creole, and Cajun.

Digitizing 78s on shellac from Boyd Senter Trio recorded 1928 with Eddie Lang and Jack Russell: The Grind Out, Hot Lips (not on the Red Hot Jazz Archive) Also Charlie Johnson's Original Paradise Orchestra

Digitizing these 78s from Joe Bussard: Zach Whyte's Chocolate Beau Brummels: Good Feelin' Blues Wailin' Blues Mandy Hum All Your Troubles Away It's Tight Like That West End Blues Paul Howard's Quality Serenaders: Charlie's Idea Over Night Blues Moonlight Blues The Ramble Quality Shout Stuff Stomp Miff Mole and his Molers: Birmingham Bertha Moanin' Low Shim-Me-Sha-Wabble Hurricane Davenport Blues Crazy Rhythm You Too Advantage of Me Imagination Feelin' No Pain Love and Learn I Can't Break the Habit of You Original Dixieland One Step Honolulu Blues Boyd Senter and His Senterpeders: Mobile Blues New St. Louis Blues

I am digitizing shellac from Joe Bussard's selection of Bennie Moten's KC Orchestra. They sure sound good, 30 or so Victor titles mostly! Must not have been played much back in the day!

I thought this was funny. Sorry Oklahomans. Substitute another state if you like. http://www.wintrest.com/if-celebs-moved-to-oklahoma/

70 years after the death of the performer who holds copyright or 95 years for a company who had an artist transfer copyright to them are extremely long terms. SOON these terms will be reversed, I believe, more along the lines of 9 years. Yes. If you cannot make the money you hope to earn in 9 years, why don't you run for governor or senator? Socialism for business! 9 years was the original copyright term in the U.S. If it was adjusted for life expectancy, why does it go 70 years after death? The monopoly held by people who cannot seem to find a way to make money on older music? It is just incredible!! They must not have ANY idea what the music means to culture. For them it seems to be only for making money. Bury it if you cannot profit from it. Monopolize it for several generations. Compulsory license? You must be kidding. Why do you deserve any payment at all anymore for having recorded something a long time ago and kept it out of print? Maybe some kind of copyright for your lifespan, but why in the world 70 more years or 95, whatever? That is unconsciounable. You record some music and it's as rare as land? Stupid. These terms of 70 years after one's death for an artist who holds monopoly or 95 years from the date of creation for companies that hold copyright are WAY WAY off. You will see. With the younger people, they will insist that a "generation" is a span of 2 or 3 years, and 70 years might as well be as long ago as mule-driven agriculture.

The little i they put in front of so many things today seems appropriately little. Today you'd better be an iReporter iIMing, or iPhoning, far ahead on the iInternet.

The great thing about this, unless you are a musician or a human being with an interest in history or someone with the slightest objection that maybe there is some way other than copyright monopoly from here to kingdom come to who knows who to provide in some way for our beloved artists, is that you sign away your art and copyright holders will make it unnecessary for musicians to heaven forbid manage your finances and save for your descendants the way everybody else has to. Like the feudal days of yore, the property is owned by generous lords in the music companies and all the musicians and listeners need is provided by their lords in the form of royalties to musicians and permission to the public to listen! Snappy economic arrangement, wouldn't you say?

Wouldn't his Wikipedia entry be longer if he were important? No, I see what you mean but "cultural references" are more and more a subject of negotiation from one generation to the next. I think it's likely that what's useless to the younger generations will more quickly be deemed arcane knowledge. Jimmy Wales, founder of Wikipedia, once said that if it can't be found in Google, then it doesn't matter enough to be in the Wiki! Along those lines, it's as if there's this mindset: if you can't find the music in emusic, Rhapsody, iTunes, or Walmart, then it must not have been worth keeping. I see this already with niche genres.

This is speculation but young people don't appear to me to be hostile to knowledge. If anything, they seem to think they are more knowledgeable about today's world than their hopelessly outdated and technologically unsophisticated parents. They live in a "secret" world of their own, even more than teenagers of previous generations did, with things they know (pop and Internet culture, inside humor, slang, video games, exposure to musical genres, etc.) that are almost unknown to older people. And it would probably be miserable for a young person today to be without all this generation-specific knowledge. Maybe there's something to the idea that there's only so much attention you can pay and gray matter you can use. If you are expending so much attention on keeping up with your generation, how much less can you give to attending our common history and heritage? Maybe previous generations had to spend less time on keeping up with generation-specific knowledge so they could devote more attention to the world at large. Just my 2 cents.

You are being ironic. If all I needed to do to make something a law were to post some kind of sign on something, I would be the emperor of ice cream.

It's a political question, who gets a slice of the pie? What about the makers of devices that contribute to possible infringement? I mean the makers of programs and devices that can burn cds from one's legally obtained copy? They have an economic interest in the right to sell those devices, even if in the process the consumer breaks the law and some artists works are being copied willy nilly. So to me it comes down to whose interests are being protected. From my vantage point the biggest loser is the public domain. It's hardly even mentioned here, as if the only thing that should be in the public domain is something so old nobody wants it or can make money from it. There's an almost Puritanical attitude arguing that if you want to enjoy something, you had better damn well pay somebody for it, even when it is not morally clear that anyone deserves payment anymore.

No, but we ARE aware that it may be infringement to make even a single copy even for private use. Libraries have exceptions in the U.S., not individuals as far as I know. The Sony v Betamax case argued that consumers could timeshift their viewing of TV broadcasts by using a VCR, but that is different. Making a copy that you can hear on your computer, in your car, then on your IPOD -- those are different facts that have not been tested definitively in court. I believe we are afraid to throw it to our courts. Again my 2 cents on why this is not decided.

You would probably have to sell the file with the very computer it is on. If you made another copy it is technically infringement, even if you deleted the original you got from ITunes and only one remains. It's the copying that may be an infringement. The owner doesn't care that you destroyed your copy. That's my take on it.

Fine. We are out of touch and you are in touch. At least he didn't say "All your base are belong to us, LOLcats, and you are retarded. And by the way, you are retarded." Is that the language you want from journalists? Next up 2 girls 1 cup?

The next thing you know some people will think it's ok to call those who disagree "retarded!!!" Oh wait a minute! Good luck with the language and culture wars.

I have a pet peeve about shortening words then pronouncing the vowels differently than in the original: Trad v traditional Prog v progressive Comping v accompanying That kind of thing. Of course the shortened versions would sound worse with the vowels of the originals, but instead of changing the vowel just ban the short versions, IMO.