Chez

Because I love my wife and my wife loves cheesy country music -- especially of the variety featured on prime time soap operas, tonight I am going to see members of the cast of the show Nashville. I will not be wearing an orange button-up or an orange button-down. I will be wearing a fake mustache, wig and sunglasses so as not to be recognized and will be checking the scores of the Blackhawks and White Sox games at every opportunity.

Don't sleep on "Anyday," also co-written by Whitlock. What a great album.

I just read that (not surprisingly) the Orioles were flooded with media requests for this game. No fans, but 92 members of the media will be in attendance.

^^^ Good call on "All Her Favorite Fruit." One of my favorite CVB songs.

For an old guy, I've been on the rail a lot -- to the point that I usually joke with the other, younger railbirds that "I'm not a Narc, honest." Wilco several times, Pavement, Morphine, Guided By Voices, Cracker, Steve Earle, Alejandro Escovedo, Jason Isbell (twice), Drive-By Truckers several times, Patterson Hood, Bob Mould (I have permanent hearing loss from that show), Grant Lee Buffalo, Matthew Sweet, Richard Thompson (several times) . . . I know I'm forgetting many. I've never had front row tickets -- only at GA shows.

The Sportswriter by Richard Ford

The Mountain Goats

^^^ Thanks.

^^^ I'm embarrassed to admit that I don't own any solo Brian Eno. I've got Another Green World and Here Come the Warm Jets on my "buy list." Does that sound right?