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mcnally
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response 86 of 124:
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Feb 12 13:41 UTC 2003 |
It's not that we're pseudonyms of Ken. It's more that we're all
different manifestations of the same ur-Music-Fan.
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otaking
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response 87 of 124:
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Feb 16 17:16 UTC 2003 |
In my case, I just took advantage of the Harmony House sale and bought way
too much for awhile. Now that I have a job where I can listen to Cds for
hours, I try to catch up to all the old ones I've accumulated.
Like Ken, I've barely bought any CDs so far this year. I think I picked up
2 soundtracks last month.
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dbratman
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response 88 of 124:
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Feb 17 07:06 UTC 2003 |
I never encountered the variety of ur-music fan who accumulates records
but doesn't listen to them until I met Ken. This was his distinctive
trait in ALPS, the music apa to which we belonged.
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otaking
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response 89 of 124:
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Mar 1 21:02 UTC 2003 |
Re: myself in #87: Since that last posting, I bought 10 more CDs, thanks to
the $1 sale at Borders.
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mcnally
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response 90 of 124:
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Mar 1 23:16 UTC 2003 |
$1 sale?
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krj
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response 91 of 124:
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Mar 5 04:07 UTC 2003 |
I fondled a few CDs at Borders tonight, though I put them all back;
I still have yet to buy a new CD this year.
One disk in a playstation probably would have grabbed my wallet, if
it hadn't been out of stock. I really liked the guitar sound on the
new James McMurtry album "Saint Mary of the Woods."
I've gone hot and cold with McMurtry in the past. I absolutely loved
"Where'd You Hide The Body," which I think was his third album.
But the followup "Too Long In The Wasteland" left me cold, and so
did one of his earlier albums, so I haven't thought about him much
recently.
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tpryan
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response 92 of 124:
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Mar 7 22:36 UTC 2003 |
Thanks for putting them back.
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otaking
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response 93 of 124:
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Mar 8 17:57 UTC 2003 |
Re #90: Unfortunately, I caught the sale at the very end.
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krj
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response 94 of 124:
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Mar 9 07:23 UTC 2003 |
OK, I finally broke down and bought some new CDs:
Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, GLOBAL A GO-GO (inspired by the
March "FRoots Radio" show, which I have been playing
obsessively)
Neko Case, BLACKLISTED (in-store play at Encore)
I have one mail order on the way for Terry Woods' new album (for
St. Patrick's Day) and Croft No. 5 (another of the Scottish folk-techno
pack), and one mail order pending for Luigi Cinque and the Tarantula
Hypertext Orchestra, and the Progmatics.
Sigh.
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krj
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response 95 of 124:
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Mar 13 05:44 UTC 2003 |
Ooops, I forgot to give a heads-up to warn anyone who might care that
Elvis Costello was the guest host on Letterman's show on Wednesday
night. (Letterman is out with an attack of shingles.) Costello
did a great job, probably the best of the guest hosts I've seen
in the last half-dozen shows.
I haven't listened to Costello much for 20 years -- I adored his first
three albums but was disillusioned by his subsequent incarnations as a
country singer and a sensitive crooner. But Schoolkids was playing
some relatively recent Costello item in the store last weekend and
I sort of liked it -- but now I don't remember what it was.
(Looking at allmusic.com: maybe it was "King of America"?)
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dbratman
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response 96 of 124:
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Mar 14 07:22 UTC 2003 |
Speaking of singers' reincarnations, here's an interview with Claudia
Schmidt in which she expresses her dismay at venues who say "Hey, oh, I
don't know, we hear you're a jazz singer now." As a dyed folkie who at
most only tolerated her occasional jazz bent, I'm of the opinion that
she has no-one to blame but herself for this impression, but so it goes.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?
file=/gate/archive/2003/03/13/derk.DTL&type=printable
Also available, at least at the moment, at the simpler address:
http://www.sfgate.com/columnists/derk/
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mcnally
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response 97 of 124:
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Mar 14 20:17 UTC 2003 |
Both of Costello's 1986 releases, "King of America" and "Blood and
Chocolate" are excellent albums..
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jaklumen
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response 98 of 124:
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Mar 15 05:24 UTC 2003 |
folkies who can't stand jazz? hmm, the nerve.. =P
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dbratman
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response 99 of 124:
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Mar 15 07:25 UTC 2003 |
It would be inaccurate to say I can't stand jazz. I merely dislike
it. However, I am a folkie who absolutely detests country. I realize
they're adjoining territories of music. But for me there's a clear
line between them, and I rebel as soon as it's crossed.
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anderyn
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response 100 of 124:
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Mar 15 22:24 UTC 2003 |
How do you feel about the alt.country thing? (Buddy and Julie Miller, um, Dave
Carter and Tracy Grammer_)? I really find that I like that part of country
music, and I *hate* country music, grew up having to listen to it.
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jaklumen
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response 101 of 124:
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Mar 16 10:45 UTC 2003 |
I'm puzzled that western has now been shuffled back into folk. My
understanding was that country, originally, was an old division of
folk-- the Appalachian tradition, right? Western was the trail songs
of the cattlemen, to my understanding. What is now called "country"
was a merging of the old country genre with western-- I don't think it
was that long ago that some were still calling it country & western.
But I guess it's just as well that moniker was dropped, as it has
traded a lot of licks with rock n roll, the genre spawned from rhythm
and blues and race music.
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tpryan
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response 102 of 124:
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Mar 16 15:05 UTC 2003 |
Part of what seems to separate C&W from folk is the
'glam' Country artists. The Rhinestones, frilled shirts,
beads, instruments with intricate inlays, fake hair, high
hair, highly decorated cowboy hats, etc.
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happyboy
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response 103 of 124:
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Mar 16 19:02 UTC 2003 |
alt.country is a bullshit label.
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jaklumen
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response 104 of 124:
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Mar 17 01:40 UTC 2003 |
hmm, that 'glam' image seems to have changed, then, because it's
supposedly hip and bubblegummy now. The guys still honky-tonk, I
think, but the women seem to work very hard to look very fashionable
and romantic.
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dbratman
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response 105 of 124:
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Mar 17 07:42 UTC 2003 |
Twila, I've never heard of these "alt.country" folk you mention. But
my reaction is simple: if it twangs, I hate it.
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anderyn
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response 106 of 124:
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Mar 17 12:54 UTC 2003 |
This isn't exactly twang-y. What it is takes some of the folk roots of country
and builds upon them, but in a way that doesn't hit my *aiee, it's country!*
button. Interestingly enough, both Carter&Grammer and the Millers are very
religious in imagery, which I like a lot (the Millers, at least Julie, are
Christian, and Dave Carter was very interested in Buddhism, although his Texan
fundamentalist roots show in some of the lyrics), and they're unabashed in
sharing that.
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krj
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response 107 of 124:
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Jul 7 06:12 UTC 2003 |
Lesson for next year's Top of the Park: Google-search every band that you
have not heard of after the schedule appears...
For Wednesday's show, I made a point to catch Muruga's Global Village
Ceremonial Band, but I blew off the opening band, Fubar. I arrived in
time to catch the last two songs by Fubar and I was really impressed
by what a good rock band they were.
Tonight I went googling for references to them. Fubar's leader is
George Bedard's bass player, and the woman vocalist is Sophia Hanifi,
who I thought was so wonderful in the short-lived band Map of the World
all those years ago. (I saw Map of the World open for 10,000 Maniacs
at Rick's in East Lansing maybe 1985? Sophia and Khalid Hanafi's band
did a much better show.) Yargh. Had I but known....
Sophia did tell me the band plays occasionally at the Del Rio.
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other
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response 108 of 124:
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Jul 7 11:26 UTC 2003 |
George Bedard's bass player: Randy Tessier
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krj
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response 109 of 124:
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Dec 6 06:27 UTC 2003 |
If I hear any more wonderful music right now I shall quite certainly
explode.
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gelinas
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response 110 of 124:
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Dec 6 18:39 UTC 2003 |
:)
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