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**Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:08 pm**

who r u? - The Who

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:14 pm**

Walshy, download some radio podcasts. There's some great stuff on Radio 4 and World Service.

Oh wait, first find a 9-year old boy who can explain how this is done.

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:49 pm**

Podcasts?

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 2:58 pm**

MissWalshy wrote:Podcasts?

Yep, podcasts. :wink:

There's some good stuff around. And it's free. Try starting off at http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/help/podcasting.shtml.

Gram Parsons: We'll Sweep Out The Ashes In The Morning

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 3:17 pm**

Bob Dylan - Last Thoughts on Woody Guthrie

not really a song, but close enough
http://www.bobdylan.com/songs/guthrie.html

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 4:42 pm**

Doctor Clayton: "Cheatin' & Lyin' Blues" / "Watch Out Baby"

"Doctor Clayton" was a blues singer who evidently fell through the cracks - he died in the 40s just as Chicago Blues was being born. So even though I've been studying the blues for decades, I just now heard about him. Judging by this one beat up 78 I just got, he was pretty good. The stuff is piano-based, as most old-timey blues was, and I'm guessing that the fantastic piano here is by Sunnyland Slim, since he used to record as "Doctor Clayton's Buddy".

"Cheatin & Lyin' Blues" is the same song that Robert Nighthawk plays in "And This Is Free" and on the "Live On Maxwell Street" CD, except it doesn't start with Nighthawk's great line "I'm goin' down to Eli's/To get my pistol out of pawn".

Both songs talk about murdering his baby. I think he shoots her on side A and bludgeons her to death on side B. But she had it coming - she took the money they had for supper and went out and got high. She spent all his stamps on whiskey. And last night at 4 am, she was doin' the boogie, too.

I also got the Golden Gate Quartet's "Stalin Wasn't Stallin' " b/w "Dip Your Fingers In The Water". Both are amazing acapella gospel songs, one secular (about Hitler & Stalin) and the other sacred. Fantastic stuff.

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:22 pm**

I'm listening to Talk Sport - it's great.. they're quizzing..

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 5:45 pm**

Artist: Patti Smith
Song: Birdland

How did I go ~30 years not really listening to or appreciating Patti Smith? She's amazing.

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:10 pm**

DzM wrote:Artist: Patti Smith
Song: Birdland

How did I go ~30 years not really listening to or appreciating Patti Smith? She's amazing.

She did an interview with a UK paper recently where she revealed how closely her Mum followed her career. At one time, she suggested Patti should do a "medley" of her biggest songs. She had it mapped out - Gloria into Horses into Rock n Roll Nigger. "Mom," Patti complained, "they are the three most complex and involved pieces I do. They can't be done in a medley!" All the same, added the dutiful daughter "If I knew she was in the audience I sometimes did her "medley" anyway".

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:11 pm**

EVERYTHING's COMING UP DUSTY - Miss Springfield from Cork

the whole album is brilliant!

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:16 pm**

philipchevron wrote:All the same, added the dutiful daughter "If I knew she was in the audience I sometimes did her "medley" anyway".

Even bad-ass performance artist/punker/rock-n-roller/beatnik/poet/Soho Hipsters try to make their mums happy.

"This one's for you, ma!"

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 7:19 pm**

"Top o' the World, Maw! Top o' the World!" - James Cagney

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 8:55 pm**

MissWalshy wrote:They wouldn't be far wrong..

I'm listening to Harper Valley PTA

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 10:17 pm**

hahhahahahahhahahaha

DzM that has to go in a gold thread for best post ever

**Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:14 pm**

Not Too Soon- Throwing Muses

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