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Either one will be fine. LouieB

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Been wanting this for a long time. LouieB

I saw a bunch of the Chicago blues folks when I first got to Chicago and throughout the 70s and 80s. Most are now gone. In addition to these two: Muddy Waters Sunnyland Slim Hound Dog Taylor Koko Taylor Jimmy Rogers Mama Yancy Willie Dixon JB Hutto Blind Jim Brewer Big Walter Horton Bo Diddley Robert Lockwood Jr. Lots of folks I can no longer remember and some I didn't know. Maxwell Street used to be very fun. Unfortunately NOT Howlin Wolf I don't know who is still alive. Buddy Guy is, but not sure about Jimmy Johnson, Sam Lay, Otis Rush. Eddie Clearwater is still alive. LouieB

Union Blues by Hendrik Hertzberg March 7, 2011 “Fifteen million Americans bring you Edward P. Morgan and the news.” From 1955 to 1967, that line, heard on the ABC radio network every weeknight at 7 P.M., heralded the nation’s best news broadcast. Those fifteen million Americans were the members of the A.F.L.-C.I.O., a federation that included nearly every union in the land. Organized labor was powerful and, for the most part, respected. Its economic and political muscle had played an indispensable role in insuring that the benefits of postwar prosperity were widely shared, transforming muc

What does it mean though? LouieB

Sadly this will probably help sales of the book. I haven't read this either, now I am more curious. LouieB

Some of the merch goes quickly, other items keep kicking around for over a year...(pun intended.) LouieB

I'll totally admit to the fact that what I said yesterday was totally dumb. I regret saying it because the nuance was clearly lost. Everyone is calling for the end of K-12 tenure, but I never see anyone call for the end of tenure in higher education. That is somehow sacred. And sure professors work like crazy, we all know this. The real dividing line is between those who think workers should have a right to job security, collective bargaining, decent wages, good benefits, a future, a retirement, and a reasonable level of respect and dignity. The fact is that public sector workers are now t

Laurie's Planet of Sound it going to have red 45s by VeeDee. That sounds cool to me (and new.) How early are people lining up...?? LouieB

Obviously I don't believe college professors deserve less job security than anyone else. Nor do I believe they have an easier job (though they do sometimes have TAs and RAs, which K-12 teachers don't.) I just find it interesting that tenure for college teachers isn't mentioned, but tenure for k-12 seems to be in the bullseye. Fire those teachers!!! Really?? All workers deserve and should expect job security and due process. Amazingly it seems to be something lots of folks want those who have it, to give up. I just don'tunderstand that. LouieB

Right....university professors are super hard working folks and k-12 teachers are slugs......you are right and as usual I am wrong. But of course the K-12 teachers (like Beltman) have these super easy jobs with lots of perks that university teachers don't have and way more job security. Right!!! LouieB

In all this talk about K-12 teachers giving up their tenure; no one seems to saying public university profs need to get up THEIR tenure and most of them have about the softest jobs on earth. Meanwhile you average K-12 teachers works his or her ass off for months on end with little support and lots of bullshit (including testing the kids out of existence.) Its amazing how much flak K-12 teachers get. You would think they are the only public employees there are. How about asking the armed services to take pay cuts including officers?? Oh yea, they are protecting our liberties, I forgot.

James Franco needs to be immediately signed to do the biopic of the Tim/Jeff Buckley story.... LouieB

The NY Times had an intersting article on Indiana this Sunday. LouieB

Of course....Light in the Attic is a pretty cool reissue group that is sort of new. I spoke to those guys for awhile at Pitchfork last year and got the last first pressing of a vinyl copy of some early Kris Kristopherson they had just released. Nice guys and putting out some interesting stuff. Not sure why anyone would want to pay for reissued Bee Gees albums when most of them are still out there in the resale market. But then again maybe they are for those who don't have used record stores around. Good call on Ace. I have a few things by them. As usual the Brits really dig American

It is. They are really keeping the pressure up. (OMG public employees being paid by the public, what will they think of next?) LouieB

And because someone else suggested additional reissue labels, I will probably spend more money. This is dangerous and deep water to wade in. When I visit these sites and look through their catalogues I always find stuff I know nothing about and would like to investigate. Like everyone else I get emails from different companies and this last week two popped up and I ordered Allison's Sacred Harp Singers 1927-28 from County Records. The sound on it is pretty amazing really. (I don't know why but when I listen to this stuff I think of Sufjan Stevens...this material is harmonically complex in

For sure. I just can't imagine how many copies of some of the albums that Sundazed or 4men sell can keep their catalogues that large, but I guess it is good that they do. LouieB

See here. We can discuss this in the privacy of a new thread. LouieB

I was going to wait a bit on this one, but someone already st chimed in on the record store day thread so I guess I should not wait. Unfortunately if I do this on the fly I will forget a bunch of stuff, but let's get started. Reissues come from both the major labels and specialty labels. They also have tendency to come and go, although some have a fairly long history. Clearly there are some that everyone knows, such as Rhino, Sundazed, and 4MenwithBeards. These three labels primarily license albums and their cover art from larger or sometimes smaller labels and reissue them. Sometimes

Teachers are a great target. Everyone has had one, everyone knows one, and everyone has an opinion on what a good or bad one is. And how uppity that the teachers got smart and organized unions a few years back. How dare they!! Don't they know their place? Particularly since most teachers are women. And those other government employees, well lots of them are lazy minorities. What right to they have to be protected?? Like most class warfare, this has plenty to do with who is being represented and organized, rather than competence. (And of course ikol still has not acknowledged that doc

Of course there are no incompetent administrators, we all know that. and of course what every anti-tenure poster here refuses to acknowledge is just what you have mentioned. Unions don't protect incompetent people from being fired, they are subject to due process, which is what all of us should expect from our jobs, union or not. So that is a major straw-person. I also am union, work for a state agency and have seen plenty of people fired over the years. Unions never stopped anyone from being fired. They have stopped people from being unfairly (or illegally) be fired and often folks ha

followed by... (interestingly panned by Pitchfork...) LouieB

Tell him to point his browser this way...I have some 78s that my parents had and some of them are totally torn up due to being played and played. I am thinking about starting a thread on re-issue labels. There is so much great old music out there that comes nicely packaged. Others could also come up with some of their faves. Now back to record store day...45 days or so?? LouieB