What Album Have You Just Bought?

[TheIrishRover]

I bought a three-CD box-set of Tom Jones. It came in a metal case and all!

If they had a sense of humor it would have come packaged with women's support garments.

Aye, although the book it came with does mention incidents of the stage being covered in women's underwear after performances.

[KathleenwithaK]

Songs and Ballads of the Anthricite Miners from the Archive of Folk Culture from The Library of Congress..I will explain later for those into folk

[firehazard]

Songs and Ballads of the Anthricite Miners from the Archive of Folk Culture from The Library of Congress..I will explain later for those into folk

Ooh yes, please do, Kathleen.

Today's purchases:
The Hold Steady: Boys and Girls in America
Gruff Rhys: Candylion
Eagles of Death Metal: Death by Sexy

By the way, TheIrishRover and DzM, a friend of mine is a Tom Jones lookalike. You wouldn't believe some of the things he comes home with at the end of the night.

[dave 81]

Lost in translation Firehazard.....are "things" human or material?

[Cdn Steve]

Songs and Ballads of the Anthricite Miners from the Archive of Folk Culture from The Library of Congress..I will explain later for those into folk

Kathleen - sounds fascinating...

My grandfathers' father and brothers worked the coal mines of County Durham in the late 1800's, and I'm interested in the music and history of the area.
The Whisky Priests have a few songs celebrating the coal miners of Northern England - but their music is hard to find on this side of the pond (the left side) Anybody familiar with them?

[KathleenwithaK]

Songs and Ballads of the Anthricite Miners from the Archive of Folk Culture from The Library of Congress..I will explain later for those into folk

Ooh yes, please do, Kathleen.

Well since you asked (and for you too Steve) My great grandfather (a proud irish American) was a penniless orphan who rose to become the President of the United Mine Workers at the age of 29. The UMW was the strongest Union in the United States at the time and when they called a striked in 1902 Teddy Roosevelt asked him to resolve it. He did so, securing a minimum wage for miners for the first time ever, as well as the 8 hour work day. He also successfully integrated the miners, mostly Irish, Welsh and Slavic who had previously been ferociously divided. Unions really meant something back then.

There are two songs about him on this compilation which was recorded "on location" in the hard-coal region of Pennsylvania by the Library of Congress' as their first post-World War II expedition to preserve the work of these folklorists. Moving stuff from people who lived very, very hard lives.

[Low D]

Well since you asked (and for you too Steve) My great grandfather (a proud irish American) was a penniless orphan who rose to become the President of the United Mine Workers at the age of 29. The UMW was the strongest Union in the United States at the time and when they called a striked in 1902 Teddy Roosevelt asked him to resolve it.

what was your great-grandfather's name, pray tell?

[DzM]

Well since you asked (and for you too Steve) My great grandfather (a proud irish American) was a penniless orphan who rose to become the President of the United Mine Workers at the age of 29. The UMW was the strongest Union in the United States at the time and when they called a striked in 1902 Teddy Roosevelt asked him to resolve it.

what was your great-grandfather's name, pray tell?

"Grand-Pappy"?

[firehazard]

Lost in translation Firehazard.....are "things" human or material?

To quote, I think, Ford Prefect, "Some of the things are people."

Though I think that in the case of my Tom-Jones-alike friend, most of the things are material. And he still has to explain it to his missus.

Thanks, Kathleen, for the insights... a fascinating bit of history.

New album - Bloc Party: A Weekend in the City

[Plastic Paddy]

I got Love by The Beatles this weekend. Great.

Remastering and playing around with classics is a good idea for groups who cant bring out any new material.

[Mick Molloy]

I got Love by The Beatles this weekend. Great.

Remastering and playing around with classics is a good idea for groups who cant bring out any new material.

Hint hint

[KathleenwithaK]

Well since you asked (and for you too Steve) My great grandfather (a proud irish American) was a penniless orphan who rose to become the President of the United Mine Workers at the age of 29. The UMW was the strongest Union in the United States at the time and when they called a striked in 1902 Teddy Roosevelt asked him to resolve it.

what was your great-grandfather's name, pray tell?

John Mitchell. Here is a link to a speech made by FDR in 1936 acknowledging his historical importance. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15212
[url] crap, I don't know if I know how to paste a link on my mac, I'm new to the whole mac thing... and no, DzM, I didn't call him Grand Pappy, he was long dead before I was born despite the fact that I frequently feel like the oldest Medusan.

[cougar]

Van Morrison - Astral Weeks
Phish - Junta
'' - Story of the Ghost

[philipchevron]

Well since you asked (and for you too Steve) My great grandfather (a proud irish American) was a penniless orphan who rose to become the President of the United Mine Workers at the age of 29. The UMW was the strongest Union in the United States at the time and when they called a striked in 1902 Teddy Roosevelt asked him to resolve it.

what was your great-grandfather's name, pray tell?

John Mitchell. Here is a link to a speech made by FDR in 1936 acknowledging his historical importance. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15212
[url] crap, I don't know if I know how to paste a link on my mac, I'm new to the whole mac thing... and no, DzM, I didn't call him Grand Pappy, he was long dead before I was born despite the fact that I frequently feel like the oldest Medusan.

Who knew there were once Presidents who addressed labor issues without being called a Commie or worse? FDR's New Deal, though it had its downsides, was a better growth model for America than................but no, I can't go on with this. It's a can of worms.

Thanks for that Kathleen.

[Low D]

John Mitchell. Here is a link to a speech made by FDR in 1936 acknowledging his historical importance. http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=15212

... and here's a link to his wikipedia page:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mitch ... Workers%29

i was thinking maybe your g-g-dad was big bill haywood, but then i realized that was the western federation of miners (and later, of course, the IWW), not united mine workers.