Neal Pomea

Interesting situation. Though other companies over the years have sought the Buck Foundation's permission, I really wonder just what kind of rights the Foundation even really has. If the catalog was acquired in 1970, there was no federal copyright for sound recordings at that time, just a patchwork of state laws against selling pirated counterfeit copies, mostly. In other words, the Buck Foundation may have for years been asserting a right they didn't even really have. I know of record companies that have tried that and gotten away with it lots of times -- asserting copyright they did not even really have. (There ought to be a law against THAT. That's tampering with the public domain, to put it politely!) Just because you get away with asserting a right does not necessarily mean you have it, even with the best of intentions and non-profit status. Most likely, though, White and Revenant just didn't do their homework on this or made bad assumptions. That'd be a shame.

If it's available for smartphone, I could listen to nothing wherever I please.

Thanks. Yes, I am restoring it right now. It wants me to reload the music, which I am doing right now. Hoping that will clear up the problem. ETA: That seems to have worked! My 160 GP classic is working in the car again! First time I have had to restore it.

That's generally fixable, ya' know: http://www.online-tech-tips.com/computer-tips/how-to-reset-or-unfreeze-an-ipod-nano-ipod-touch-ipod-classic-or-ipod-shuffle/ I should have said what freezes up is the car system. I know how to unfreeze the Ipod. But whenever I plug the 160 into the car system, the car system freezes up. Works fine with the 16GB Nano.

I find it much easier in my car system (Subaru Legacy) to scroll through my playlists on a 16 GB Ipod Nano than the 160 GB Classic I had. My Classic froze up recently and I haven't replaced it.

OT Our vocabulary for hats has become so diminished that people refer to baseball hats and truckers hats! Don't know even know what a cap is anymore! Where I grew up in Louisiana, even farmers wore fedoras. In the field.

RIP. Man had a hammer, a bell, and a song to sing! Glad I got to see him at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival in the early 80s. And yes, he had us do some singalongs! Enjoying YouTube videos of his Rainbow Quest TV show.

This is the recording that followed his disastrous tour of Stanstraightistan.

Bunny Wailer, Dance Rock http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJE6jM1BZ-Q

More like I jumped fence for a genre (a generation?). I really enjoyed Jamaican dancehall rappers like Brigadier Jerry, Prince Jazzbo, Big Youth, Yellowman etc. in the early 80s, then just gave up on it when it went to the U.S. and became rap. To me it's as if the last 35 years of pop music has been largely dominated by a form that's as novelty and quickly gotten over as talking blues. Imagine the talking blues form dominating pop music for 35 years. I will be corrected here to be sure, but that is how it is for me.

Take a Message to Mary!

I wish you a happy and fortunate new year!

Nice one i'm listening to right now!

I somehow missed The Believer, but it looks like I might have the rest. I don't know who could do without these Prestige recordings.

The White Christmas version I would like to hear at Macy's is the one by John Fahey! Man could syncopate Death!

Not at all, skeith! I understood the humor (humour).

The 7th of December, 1941. A date that will live in infamy.

Big Youth, Cool Breeze

Christmas with John Fahey Vol. II The cd version had to leave off Christmas Fantasy [Part I] in the interest of time. Too bad. It's not really Christmas stuff at all but lots of Brazilian music he was learning in 1975 from Baden Powell and Bola Sete!

Have a good one!

Have a good one!

Another mighty time! Thanks a lot!