I'm delighted that Jesse Winchester is doing another album...must have some
good songs done by now!
As many of you know, Stony Plain has the rights to the Bearsville
catalogue, and all seven albums from that fetile period remain in the
catalogue. And, hey, if Sugar Hill has Jerry Douglas
Tiffany Suiters, in what must be one of the silliest posts I've EVER read
on this list, responded to my long post about the roots of BMI, and the
reasons for its very existence, with the following dumb, DUMB, D-U-M-B
line, her whole message prior to reprinting my long post all over again:
Since I once worked for damn near a quarter of a century with Canada's
performing right society, I've been following the discussion with interest.
Astonishingly, no one has raised the issue of why on earth there are TWO
organizations in the US (three, if you count SESAC).
The duplication
In a recent post, I suggested that the commercial failure of Rufus
Wainwright's excellent record was due, in part, because "Rufus pushes the
"gay thing" to excess, and I'm convinced it's this that has managed to turn
off the straight audience
completely. Had I been consulted, I'd have
I don't know whether this is the place and time to get into this, but I
noted Carl's Globe and Mail piece on Rufus Wainwright, who I first met when
he was 14 or 15. I also noted, either on this list or somewhere else, that
total sales on his album in the US had now crawled up to 35,000.
Jeez, is there ANYONE with one of those SXSW wristbands? I'm driving down
from the frozen north (road trip! Yay!!) starting on Sunday, and one of
our party doesn't have one, and would love to get one.
It's Friday evening now - and an e-mail before I go would be
lovely. Then we could
Just a quick note to say that Ian Tyson's new album, Lost Herd, is now out
in Canada (on the estimable Stony Plain label, for which I flack and toot
horns).
Ol' Eon is back for the first collection of new material since
Eighteen Inches of Rain in 1994 (apart from the best-of collection
I've been noting Joe Gracey's sterling defence of the Mac (I've got one
too), but I wonder if it's the fault of this machine (an LC 520) that I
when I get the Digest all Mike Hays' and Buddy Rocket's posts come twice -
one in English and one in complete, utter, and total gibberish.
The
Wrote Carl Z
Richard Thompson has argued that both the writing and recording of SOTL
preceded the events that led to the breakup of the marriage, FWIW. On
the other hand, the tour to promote the record happened while they were
breaking up and apparently was pretty tense.
Oh indeed it was; I
Carl Abraham Zimring sent us his playlist the other day..,
Third up was Luann Kowalek, singing Friends.
Hardly twang, folk, but a VERY interesting singer-songwriter out of
Edmonton, and one well worth unearthing. I've heard her year after year at
the Edmonton F*** Festival, and she has gotten
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