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Jan 31 03:39 UTC 2001

A kick for this item after two years.  I wanted to make some notes to myself
about this evening's Progressive Torch & Twang show, the alt.country radio
program on Michigan State's student radio station.  Three songs in 
succession caught my interest.  The first was a track from the new 
Bad Livers album.  Happyboy and I had been chatting about this somewhere 
in the conference, and based on the reviews I'd seen I hadn't been planning
on buying it.  But I liked this track, very intense and banjo-based, so
the Bad Livers disc moves into the "buy" queue.
 
Next up was Reckless Kelly, whoever he is, with a silly live cover
version of Led Zep's "Whole Lotta Love."  And finally, Wilco and Syd Straw,
a cover of a Jimmie Rogers song about tuberculosis, from
the "Red Hot and Country" compilation album of a few years back.
I don't know if that's still available.  Carla would like to hear it
for the presence of Syd Straw.