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I didn't even know they were coming to town. Saw them at Metro about a year ago and thought they were kind of dull actually. LouieB

Check out my non-threaded thread...you might find it interesting, including the links. Yea, me too basically. These threads always turn into a list of every person remotely like what we are talking about including a few oddballs thrown in (Elizabeth Cotton wasn't much of a singer). I just think it is funny that once people get started all the most obscure artists get mentioned. (No one seems to have mentioned all the great jazz singers such as Ella Fitzgerald or Sarah Vaugh, but then again they aren't singersongwriters either..) LouieB

Yea, well sure, but that is mostly because people rarely listen to female vocalists anymore. The odd jazz, blues, R&B singer gets thrown on these lists, but there are plenty more who get no mention at all. (Note that not a single soul replied to my post on Sophie Tucker...not that I really expected one actually..) LouieB

That was kind of my reaction too. When it came to tapes, the record companies didn't give a shit about sequencing at all. In fact 8 tracks were the worst with songs sometimes broken between "sides" (there were four for those of you too young to remember) so that songs were completely mixed up. I can't imagine that those programming cassettes gave it any thought at all. LouieB

I have no idea who Shonna Tucker is. No mention anywhere for one of the great originals - Laura Nyro?? (Oh yea she did get one mention..) LouieB

John and Joey certainly have played with Neko before, helping launch her career as part of her band (at least in the studio) on her first couple albums (or so...someone can correct me.) Kelly Hogan has many credits to her name, aside from the Jody Grind also. Sadly she no longer lives in Chicago, but she was a fixture with every band that played the Hideout for many years. It is really nice to know she now has a more than steady (and one that must more than pay the bills) with Neko. What no love for the great Tom Ray? LouieB

Let's hope she makes tons of money and disappears forever...or not. I would be just as happy to see her run against Obama in 2012. I mean we gotta keep things interesting. LouieB

I just read this review a couple days ago. It left me wondering less about Gladwell than his editor(s) who clearly blew the spelling of the algebraic term. How can this happen? I know Gladwell (who I had the pleasure of seeing speak a few years back) is merely a writer of clever articles, but doesn't someone fact check him before his books go to press? From a friend who is a vegetarian..(not me)...happy tofurkey day!! Yikes..!! LouieB

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Then I guess it really is time for me to read this. LouieB

I am guessing this is back in print. I saw Al a few years back. He had a brain tumor which left his eyesight impared. He can still get the tunes out, after he warms up a bit. LouieB

After talking to a friend last night I realize I have not seen this movie; what I saw was a similar movie called King Korn (or Corn), which is about the local food movement in California and the factory farming industry. There are literally millions of "green" jobs that could be developed as a result of the local food movement, which will take some real live capital to get going. It is one thing to want local commodities, it is another to go to scale on this, which is the problem. Unless some folks with money get behind the raising, marketing, selling, and processing (the weakest link in

Unless you bought a copy very early on, you may already own the remaster. It has been around for many years. If not do buy it as pointed out, some of the tunes have now been corrected (not all were wrong) and all tunes are titled correctly (this was also not true on the LP.) Meanwhile I can't imagine trying to figure out what I bought this year; I can barely rememeber what I bought last week. LouieB

Super Session is where I started with solo Kooper, but then again I was there when it came out. It actually encouraged me to buy other albums by all the artists represented including Kooper. I have most of his solo LPs, having started with I Stand Alone, which is one of the best of the lot. Live Adventures of Kooper and Bloomfield is good as well, if some what dated. With each solo disk Kooper had less to say, so NY City is okay (and somewhat sexist in my opinion). If you want tapes of somewhat scratchy LPs I got em all. I don't own the Shuggie Otis disk, but I have heard it. It is really

Happy Birthday!!! LouieB

How would that NOT be country? Dobro, mandolin, bsss, accoustice guitar and piano, with simple drums IS country music(unless country is that crap on country radio right now!!). (Whatever traditional bluegrass music is, since bluegrass is basically slightly amped up traditional string band music anyway, which are the roots of country music.) It sounds good to me. LouieB

This article was brilliant. Cut and pasted from the NY Times yesterday. I think it says everything that can be said about how screwed up the debate over healt care reform has become. LouieB November 15, 2009 Op-Ed Contributor My Near Death Panel Experience By EARL BLUMENAUER Washington I DIDN’T mean to kill Grandma. I didn’t even mean to create death panels. But now that I and my fellow lawmakers in the House have passed a health care bill, I’m finally free to explain what I learned as the author of the now-famous end-of-life provisions. My experiences during the bizarre controversi

Well said. I was about to say the same thing. If people didn't take this shit seriously it would be fine; it is theater, but once it appears to be news, well, then it is different. LouieB

Wilco didn't organize this, Ed Burch, Jay's long time collaborator did. It was a very fun evening for the the couple or so hours I was there. Lots of different folks got up to sing and many interesting stories were told. Hopefully someone will give a complete report. It was certainly under attended in my opinion. But that didn't matter. LouieB

Isn't this like every halfway decent live album ever done? LouieB

I met Thurston Moore once and stood next too him and looked through record bins...does that count??? LouieB

Just don't get a hankering for a Coke (or any other high fructose corn syrup drink) or it blows all your good intentions out the window. At some point I stop feeling guilty about some of these issues. At the point that it sucks to support the food establishment which has increased obesity rates and factory farms which mistreat animals, it has also given us the ability to feed far more people higher quality food in some cases over the broader spectrum of the population. I try and buy locally when possible and wish the system was more friendly to smaller farms. But at this point even compan

I know this album has limit appeal to most people, but I just have to say that I listened to it a couple times yesterday and now I can't get some of the tunes out of my head. If nothing else check out some of the clips online. It may get you humming along to such tunes as Reuben Rag, Phoebe Jane, Everyone Shimmies Now and the not so subtle That Lovin Soul Kiss. LouieB

I think I saw this. Is this the one that talks about the local food movement in California and then branches out to talk about the food industry? LouieB

bumpity bump... LouieB