response 1 of 124:

Aug 31 17:12 UTC 2001

On Wednesday we were in Hoboken, just across the river from the 
skyscrapers of Manhattan.  We were visiting Karen, a friend of Leslie's
from her summer singing program in the Czech Republic.  
 
As we walked across Washington Street, Karen pointed out Maxwell's, 
which she said was the famous rock club where lots of bands had gotten
started.  She said in a previous apartment, on the same block as Maxwell's,
she could hear the bass playing on some nights.
 
I must be getting old; I'd dimly heard of Maxwell's but the only Hoboken
band I can think of is Yo La Tengo.

response 3 of 124:

Sep 1 07:20 UTC 2001

  The Feelies were another Hoboken, NJ, band.  I know there are others that
  I could think of if I put my mind to it..

response 5 of 124:

Sep 15 22:08 UTC 2001

Yes; we walked through Frank Sinatra Park, in fact.  Though I understand
that he didn't come back to his old home town much.
 
Prairie Home Companion note: according to the webpage at 
http://www.prairiehome.org, the Sept. 22 and Sept. 29 broadcasts will
be "vintage" shows from 1985.  I haven't seen PHC dig so deeply into 
its archives for rebroadcasts in years.

response 7 of 124:

Sep 16 00:14 UTC 2001

Could be, but there are a *lot* of PHC shows with Chet Atkins, he usually 
appeared a couple of times a year.

response 9 of 124:

Nov 6 21:56 UTC 2001

Folksinger Janis Ian wrote a con report about her worldcon trip,
which was her first SF convention:
 
http://www.janisian.com/news-oct2001wc.html

(reposted from SF conference.)

response 11 of 124:

Nov 14 23:30 UTC 2001

So today, being nostalgic, I was playing Camper Van Beethoven's 
"Our Beloved Revolutionary Sweetheart" and the Oyster Band's "Holy Bandits."
Any more suggestions for rock bands with violins?

response 13 of 124:

Nov 15 01:15 UTC 2001

  Yes, the fiddling on "Astronauts & Heretix" is nice.  I like Michael
  Doucet's (of Beausoleil) performance on "I Love You Goodbye"

response 15 of 124:

Nov 15 14:47 UTC 2001

*pukes*

response 17 of 124:

Nov 28 18:55 UTC 2001

Chicago Shopping II:  I put my overall impressions of the two big CD 
stores in the Loop in item:4.   
 
Tower had a lot of tempting things in the world music section, 
but I had to put back many of them, such as some solo CDs by former
Kornog guitarist Soig Siberil and flutist Jean-Michel Veillon.
(Actually the Veillon album with guitar accompaniment looked most
tempting, I might have to get that on some future trip if it's 
still there.)  Also passed up at Tower was an album by a Spanish
pop-flamenco group called Ea, "Aguita."  Mickey, you know anything 
about them? 
 
I settled for the most recent CD by Cape Breton Gaelic singer Mary 
Jane Lamond, who's a favorite of mine; this album has not been 
widely available in the States because Wicklow Records, the major-label
world music imprint, was shut down as part of the dismantling of 
BMG's classical music operation.  And, a cd by a young Breton band 
called Karma; the name sounds a little too new-agey, but the music 
was pretty good.  We played the disc in the car on the drive home
and now this morning I can't find it, argh.
 
At Crow's Nest I limited myself to "Wake of the Dead," the new 
Danny Carnahan project which I just learned about this past week.
Carnahan and other California Celtic players do Celtic-folk settings 
of classic Grateful Dead songs.  
 
Note to self: in the French bin at Crow's Nest was a possibly-interesting
looking band calle Tekameli with an album titled "Ida Y Vuelta."
Occitan, maybe?  Look at their website http://www.tekameli.com.
Curiously, the disc was released on Epic...   

Passed up at Crow's Nest: volumes 2 & 3 of Ashley Hutchings' series
of trunk recordings "The Guv'nor;" and the Ian Dury tribute album
with various artists recreating the "New Boots and Panties"  album.

response 19 of 124:

Nov 29 02:39 UTC 2001

Danny Carnahan? Eeeek! New Danny Carnahan? Twila goes "oooooooh". Must
restrain self.... (Twila has just seen that Garnet Rogers has a new CD out,
Firefly, but has no other data on it.)