LouieB

With Wilco out of the country, and the music biz in something of a funk, I will ventue into territory few are interested in here, old, really old, music. For several years, Archeophone Recordsout of Champaign, IL has been re-issuing accoustic recordings from the dawn of recording history. While it won't garner quite the hip cache that the Numero Group has, they are doing a great service to those who want to hear the really old stuff. Recently they out did themselves by putting out a CD of the first 24 records Sophie Tucker put out. Along with the CD is a really cool book (it is all inco

Greed....that's all. Actually of late the CD has come down as we have seen in the Best Buy thread. But I agree, CDs should cost far less (but of course new LPs should not be $25 either, but at the moment they can get that...) LouieB

W(TA) is a perfectly fine album. Just not earth shattering. LouieB

Actually, in the case of country music, no!! One thing I learned from the CMA awards was that they give awards to stations in four types of markets and to radio personalities in different types of markets. More than one performer thanked "country radio" (maybe more than god actually...which rap artists seem to do on awards shows at an alarming rate...) which also meant something. Country radio is out there flogging mainstream product like crazy. As for Wilco getting on country radio; how the fuck did Hootie or Kid Rock or any of these other guys get on? Promotion and maybe some payola?

I heard this also last night. Is this good? I guess so!! LouieB

I had this thought today too, but you verbalized it first. This is a brilliant idea actually. I know you can do all this pretty easily at home so why go out to do it, but it is still a brilliant idea. If you could go to a store, hear some of the hit singles of the day and download them immediately for not too much money, wow..... Okay maybe it is stupid and brilliant all at the same time. LouieB

I am sure he could figure it out if he wanted to. I suspect so could Jeff and Nels for that matter. How about Kid Rock?? Yikes. LouieB T

I am actually a pretty good cook...and an Eagle Scout... LouieB

We couldn't support ourselves I don't think (hell I can barely support myself now!!) with a record store. I agree that Tower and Best Buy ran the more local big stores out of business (I know they did in Chicago}. Rose records had an entire floor of classical records, a floor of rock, folk sections, jazz, vocal, blues other assorted stuff and tons of cut outs. It was amazing and it was locally owned. Heck even Rolling Stone (and later Rock Records) had large sections of these things. And Rose had staff who knew the stock, etc. For all the blandness of places like Coconuts, etc. they real

The the way with REM. (but I was so long out of college.) LouieB

By the way...what a little tart Taylor Swift is...and Carrie Underwood..yikes... While a Wilco country album could be dark, parts of it could be light as well. LouieB

Oh yea....of course they do. That would be great on the Grand Old Opry. I listen to country radio occasionally when I am either on the road or get bored with whatever other shit is playing on the radio here in Chicago (and having been reminded we do have a country station here...) It is correct that alot of what is currently passing for country music is rebranded 70s and 80s pop. Clearly the old man of country is George Strait, probably one of the last artists to still be somewhat country in country music. The only real link with country is steel guitar and fiddle and songs that are actua

I spent entirely too much time last night watching the CMA awards and decrying the pathetic state of contemporary country music (although admittedly seeing these folks perform was sort of a hoot and Hootie as well..!!!), and I really think it is time for Wilco to stick to all those critics who continue to refer to them as an alt.country act. Fuck it Jeff, roll out some spiffy country/southern soul licks and go for some radio play. It couldn't be any worse and has to be better than the crap being churned out at the moment. And the good thing is that country radio actually plays "country music

You will LOVE the rest of the set. Well it is all about Trane I suppose. Now that many folks hear have bought this Prestige material, the later material (including the stellar Atlantic material) is really where the action is. You can play albums like Love Supreme and all the rest of this over and over and never get bored, but those of us who have been playing them for years know this. I have Village Vanguard material over several LPs, but not sure I have all of it. I am particularly fond of Greensleeves from one of the Vanguard dates. Also something you can hear dozens of times

Maybe Silvers is the wave of the future. We really won't know until the future. But you gotta figure that CDs are now 30 years old and alot of people have CD players both at home and in their cars and need stuff to play on them. And maybe a store like Silvers will collect the out of print CDs that will eventually become the collector's items of tomorrow. Mark my words... Yea, and it is weird to think the Towers are gone. I will never forget going into the one here and thinking, damn, this place has everything.... and then they took over Rose records which was the huge full service store h

If folks are interested in Coltrane's Impulse studio sides, there is a website selling it fairly inexpensively (but not as cheap as the Prestige.) True Blue seems like a pretty good place and they are currently selling it for $20 off. If you only have this Prestige material, save a few bucks and get these too. LouieB

Are there any large, full service record stores left in Atlanta? If people can chime in on this I would be curious. They can be non-chain, but I mean ones that are large (not just small storefronts) that include all sorts of music including classical, blues, country, pop, rock, folk, etc., rather than those doing the ebay thing and catering to the vinyl crowd. LouieB

It is interesting you mention record stores in general. There are still record stores, at least in the cities, but there aren't any longer the larger full service ones, mostly just indies. But you are correct that every small town used to have some sort of record store. You could go to practically any small town and find a place that had something to offer and a place to find out what was happening in that town. Record stores were the place you could find out about music in the area, buy some old LPs or CDs at good prices and maybe find some paraphanailia too..(not that I ever did.) Thes

Does it have the same material as this release? If so it is just okay. I have not seen this other release. LouieB

Thanks for reading that shit I wrote... I agree with you also. There was a time (a long long time ago) when you could preview records at the stores and you could hear the music (sometimes) on the radio. Some record stores in the recent past did try and give customers the ability to listen to what was on the records. (How much things have changes?? When I was in college in the middle of shit creek Ohio on a small campus the college bookstore sold LPs, including cut-outs. You could go in and get not only new releases but all kinds of cool stuff.) But you do hit on an important point. A

Congress is not made up of Dennis Kuciniches. It is made up of folks who take contributions from health insurance companies. No one should be surprised by any of this, not even Dennis. We live in a schizo country. One the one hand we have people saying we are going socialist on the other we have those who say it is capitalist plot. It can't be both. LouieB

This is very cool. I plan to be there as well. LouieB

Yea me too. LouieB

I have been saying for years that someday this will happen. Just keep holding your breath. LouieB

There is a supply and demand issue here. This has been brought up before, but it is important. There used to be "record stores" (and I am not talking about LPs vs CDs vs cassettes, etc, which are all records..) where they had a large selection of music including rock, folk, jazz, classical, vocal, international, etc. etc. You walked in, checked out what was happening in each department and bought what you liked and wanted. Those stores really don't exist any more (with a few exceptions) and have been replaced by either the indie store (small and usually greared to a particular audience) o