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yellojktAnybody here still watch SNL? I enjoy Kenan Thompson’s bizarre and meta-meta “What’s Up With That” . . . the sketch that always features an unspeaking Bill Hader as Lindsey Buckingham, who never gets to perform. But keeps coming on the show. And eventually, the real Lindsey Buckingham makes an appearance (follow link, I can’t, so it may well be the whole show), but I’m embedding the one where Al Gore shows up as a guest.
Is that enough Lindsey Buckingham? No, it’s not. A very solid live performance of one of my favorite Lindsey Buckingham songs, Street of Dreams:
I recommend “D.W. Suite” from Go Insane, though I cannot, myself, verify it (net nanny). Hopefully, it’s the right thing. Here’s a dance rehearsal from a Singapore American School, done to “D.W. Suite”.
Finally, a link to the actual real stereo track of Mick Fleetwood’s “I Want You Back”, a tune that seems clearly written and mostly sung by Lindsey Buckingham.
I used to buy a lot of 12″ singles, back in the day. I didn’t get this one, but that’s probably just because I didn’t see it at Peaches Records and Tapes. It’s the 12″ single to “Go Insane”.
I was a fan of the entire Go Insane album. It was Buckingham’s most produced/over-synthesized album, and I loved him for it.
Finally, the one song of Lindsey Buckingham’s that pretty much everybody on earth has heard, “Holiday Road” from National Lampoon’s Vacation.
Laters, My Babies — KW
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All Things in Moderation 
Yes, I said finally twice. What of it? I can have two finallys if I want, and nobody can tell me I can't. This is America!
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I was watching the night that the *real* Lindsay Buckingham showed up. Totally meta. Better than that is his economist. FIX IT. Who? THOSE WHO BROKE IT! How? Step one. FIX. Step two. IT.He's a gem.
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Well, Im not a fan of Linsey's actual singing, but I give him credit for making Fleetwood Mac the band that it became. Also for helping pioneer the Southern California sound, along with Bob Welch, Jackson Brown, Glen Frey and Don Henley.I'm also sad that I missed the earlier dust-up with minor blogebrity, Lee Stranahan (I keed, I keed.)I thought he was a commie lib?
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OK, QB, I'll give you she was "cute" in the 70s, but Nicks always sang flat, and her voice always had too much vibrato. She was a walkin' soap opera. I never understood why anyone thought she was sexy.I saw FM on its joint tour with the Eagles.Joint tour is not meant as wordplay, but if the doobie fits, wear it.It was then rumored that the Eagles offered LB before FM did, but they would not take Nicks so LB said "no."I was and am a fan of blues based stuff, and liked FM pre CA cutie couple.
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I'm interested in why Pelosi is chronically being forzen out of these types of meetings. I think it's more than just the inherent powerlessness of the House minority. Thoughts anyone?
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"I thought he was a commie lib?"lol, I'm not giving up that title.McWing, what did you think of the free trade deal? I thought the Tea Party opposed it? I'm not trying to put you on the spot, I'm seriously curious.
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Mark,I'm a huge fan of Nicks, and think the voice is part of what "sells" it for me. Kind of like how Joplin or Cocker's voice is unorthodox but appealiing. I hadn't heard about the Eagles not wanting Nicks though, so that is news. I'll risk ridicule by saying that the FM album, Say Anything, has grown on me. At first I thought it was muddy, but now I recognize it as the clear continuation of the maturing FM, and rank it 4th, behind Rumors, Fleetwood Mac and tusk. The one glaring hole in Say Anything however, is the lack of Christine McVee, and that was really punctuated by the tour promoting the album.
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lms,I'm not a fan of so called free trade deals. It seems we give up an awful lot just to sell our agricultural goods abroad. I understand the concept behind them, they just never seem to benefit, or at the very least not harm our domestic (non illegal immigrant {goodness, I'm such a terrible hater!] blue collar laborers. That's me though.
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lms,do you think Pelose gets frozen out an innordinate amount?
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I don't know re Pelosi. I read the piece you linked but I haven't heard much otherwise. Maybe? I doubt she'll ever be Speaker again, maybe she's too liberal for Obama et al.
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BTW everyone, hope I didn't come down too hard on Stranahan, not because he can't take it and I'm so tough (who, l'il ole me?) but because I hope I didn't violate our blog rules. I better read them again………..
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Saw this over at Drudge. It's the Headline. He titles it Obamacare Unravelling."
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But he spells "unraveling" correctly and doesn't have an extraneous quotation mark. Other than that, it's exactly like his.
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Weighing in for the first time today: lms, I don't think you came on too bitchy. But I was kind of surprised at the amount of adulation that he got from some of you guys. Maybe it's just me and hubris, but I didn't see anything in his work that's better than what we little bunch of amateurs are kicking out on practically a daily basis.Just my two cents.Tomorrow is MSU vs UM in Spartan Stadium. Go Green, Go White!!
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"I like Lee and all, but . . ." is not adulation. But he's a productive and independent-minded guy, and I give him his due. I reserve my adulation for you guys. The commie lib thing was so three years ago.
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I don't think its possible for you to violate the rules, lmsinca. You are as even-keeled as they come.
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I don't know if this is getting any coverage on the left. Look's like Obama's getting ready to bomb more brown people.
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It was too bad actually about the Class Act, although I never thought Obama was too invested in it. We get information on long term care insurance periodically and it is prohibitively expensive, for us at least. We're already paying $1600 a month insurance premiums for the two of us beginning Nov. 1, an increase of $100/mo so the extra $300-$400 would literally break the bank. I lost both of my parents in the last 4 years and we essentially took care of each of them until about the last month when we just couldn't swing it anymore even with help from Hospice. And so each of them ended up in one of those home environments with about 6 patients and round the clock nurses aid care along with hospice and family. They cost a little over $3000 per month, so get ready everyone.
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Troll, I don't get your point. Are all brown people inherently good, or is there a possibility that some aren't
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Lms,CLASS wan known in advance, by everybody, to be completely unsustainable. It was included in Obamacare simply to pad the budget surplus (snicker) number put out by the CBO.
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Michi,my point, such as it is, is wondering if putting troops in another foreign country will recieve the same level of scrutiny by the left as it would if it had been done under the previous administration.
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Ah! And in that case, from me at least the answer is yes.I agreed with Afghanistan and what we did in Libya. Railed against Irag (as a Chemical Officer I had the evidence to do so) from the moment it became a rumor.My knee jerk reaction to Uganda (having read jnc4p's link from Rolling Stone earlier) is that it's appropriate.What do you think?? Genuinely curious.
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McWing, only in the near term did it pad the budget surplus. Health care reform sucks, all of it, IMO.BTW, I don't get your brown people reference either. I just learned of this today and so don't know all the context of why we're sending 100 troops over there, but apparently this LRA group is considered a terrorist organization with a terrible human rights record……….not sure what it has to do with being brown, aren't we also defending brown people?
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Hmmm. I think Stevie rarely used vibrato at all. She sang very straight except occasionally when she used more like a vocal tremolo for "spooky" effect. Her voice had a unique timbre; I find it spellbinding. A really fine song writer, too. She has or had the gift of writing songs that were simple but beautiful, and she is an amazing lyricist imo. Plus, I was the right age to have a crush on her in their heyday. Lindsey is a nifty guitarist. If you watch his right hand, his technique is almost unique. He never uses a pick. He uses a combination of finger picking, thumb, and finger tip strumming. I found long ago, though, that I often use a similar technique when I'm in the mood, especially just around the house. His arrangement and production were tremendous and contributed immeasurably to the end result, imo. Rhiannon is a great song, for example, but it was written on piano, on which it is pretty boring. The arrangement, performances, and production, however, make it great. He is also strongly associated with Rick Turner guitars, although those post-date the classic recordings. They are the cool, funky dark brown electrics you see him play. I will go more off the charts than Troll and say that I rate Fleetwood Mac 1 and Rumours 2 of the Buckingham/Nicks era. Or maybe I just like it better. Crystal, for example, is one of the most beautiful songs you'll ever hear. I just plain like FM better. The Peter Green FM was of course a completely different beast, and, yes, also a tremendous band. ("Oh Well" is still amazing.) The magic that came from mixing the Fleetwood-McVie blues rythym section with Crhistine and then L and S was just uncanny. No one talks much about, for example, the drums on a song like Rhiannon, but just listen to them. Sweet.
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I loved Rumours. I have no idea why this song has been rattling around in my head this week, but this song is one of my favorites from when I was about that age and it might be well to listen to given the somewhat contentious week we've had here. Mass hysteria (to quote qb), always remember that's what we'e aiming for. . .
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Lms, this link is a pretty good description of the cynicism of why it was included in Obamacare.As far as Uganda is concerned, I'm very unclear what our strategic nation interest is. Wouldn't it be better to send in advisors to Syria, for example? Toppling Assad would have more of an impact on our strategic national interst, in my opinion.QB, FM did a great version of Oh Well in concert during the Buckingham/Nicks years. Why not love for the absolutely essential Christine McVee?
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Should it be necessarily strategic? Maybe humanitarian (which does, sometimes, require "hard" diplomacy)? Like what we should have done in Kosovo.
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I think Christine McVie had a voice quality I heard again in Annie Lennox.
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Big Nicks fan. I think I was thirteen when Edge of Seventeen hit. That was one of those songs that just blew me away. Who was this woman? It was a revelation. Of course, back then the only Fleetwood Mac I was familiar with was the song "tusk".Can't agree with Mark about Nicks or Buckingham. Both tremendous artists, both providing more than a few major hits on the soundtrack of my life. Of course, that may be my position because I'm 42.
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Listen to Lindsay Lohan's cover of Edge of Seventeen sometime. The angels weep at the travesty.
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Michi,I think strategic national interest is the criteria we should use. Humanitarian missions have been reserved for disasters. KW, the new Nicks album, In Your Dreams is second only to Belladonna.
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Annie Lennox: loved the first two Euyrthmics albums. As time progressed, she just didn't sound the same, to me. But again: Sweet Dreams and Here Comes The Rain Again and Love is a Stranger . . . Major touchstones in the soundtrack of my youth, where certain songs meant as much to me as anything in my life.
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Listen to Lindsay LohanWell, there's your problem right there, Kevin! 🙂
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Troll, I need to check that out. Only albums I've bought in the past year are the Thomas Dolby ep and Bird and the Bee. Should expand my current selection.
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it appears the Obama administration may have another explosive scandal on its handsI can't read stuff like this McWing. I'm not a huge Obama fan and haven't been for a long time, but this kind of editorializing just turns me off. An "explosive scandal"? Come on, that's the kind of legislation that gets written all the time, by both parties, budget gimmicks, lol.
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Mich, it's not just the Lohan. It's the crazy hubris of the attempt. Edge of Seventeen? Really? You?
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Troll–I, personally, don't have a problem with using the military for humanitarian reasons (especially the SF). But I understand where you're coming from. I was raised (militarily) by officers and NCOs who–to a man–believed that Vietnam was a blunder foisted on the military by misguided civilians. I have always believed that it was my job, as an officer, to fourth, fifth and sixth guess orders. . . but that some things are just self-evidently right to do.
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Okay, okay, I loved both Stevie and Annie but you've got to remember I used to sing along with Janis on the car radio while she was still alive.
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The more mass hysteria the better, indeed.It isn't that I dis Rumours, Michi. I'm just a weirdo who likes FM even better.Interesting connection from Christine to Annie Lennox, Mark. Never though about it, but you are right. Christine's voice is a little deeper, though.
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Kev–my point exactly! Hubris is the perfect word!
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Hey, I dig Janis, too, although I'm just too young to really remember her. (Although I do remember where I was when I heard the Beatles were breaking up.)
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KW, Hole did a nice, grungy cover of Gold Dust Woman.
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Best albums you ever heard. Pick at lest two, no more than five. Subjective– what constitutes best for you.Thomas Dolby Golden Age of Wireless.Kate Bush Hounds of Love.Tori Amos Little Earthquakes.Beatles Sgt. peppers ( proxy for all Beatles music, most of which I absorbed from compilation albums)I'm just crazy about The Birdand The Bees album of Hall and Oates covers, but I have no perspective on it. Too new, so as much as I love it, I should pick something else.Peter Gabriel's Last Temptation of Christ soundtrack. Michael Jackson's Thriller. They Moght Be Giants Lincoln. Okay, can't pick a 5th.I tried.
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The Kirwan/Welch FM, was my fave, Christine…voice of an Angel. [Delores O'Riordan of the Cranberries comes close.] Bare Trees. And the single "Hypnotized" from Mystery To Me.Wore out the grooves that year–with a penny on the Pioneer PL needle arm. & on Van's Hard Nose the Highway too.
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I can also remember reading in a magazine in a barber shop that Stevie was having to pull out of a tour because of vocal cord issues — overuse. That must have been the Rumours or FM tour. So strange the things you remember.
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FWIW, Janis Joplin's Ball and Chain performed at the Monterey Pop Festival in '67 is the greatest live performance ever. Seriously.
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Love, love Hypnotized, tao. I remember laying on my bed listening to it late at night on a crappy radio. Must have been 15 or so.But I'm a sucker for the Lindsey/Stevie era.
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Lms, if you can, read the posting as it's chock full of the ObamaAdministrations machinations to get CLASS in. The only conclusion you can draw is that they wanted the budget surplus no matter what. As for the title, I'm not sure Stiles, or any poster at NRO, write their own headlines, if that helps. It's scandalous only to the rubes.
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Brian Eno. Before and After Science. Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy. Just listened to that recently and had completely forgotten, though I listened to it a dozen times circa 1986. XTCs Todd Rundgren produced Skylarking. That's a great freaking cohesive album. Planet Ps Pink World. I should not have started my brain up on this.
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I take headlines everywhere with a train of salt. I love The Daily headlines, though–so many puns. Old school.
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Bob Dylan's Hard Rain ( and it's sister album Rolling Thunder Review) Sex Pistols Never Mind The BullocksAllman Brothers Live From the Filmore EastModern Lovers The Modern Lovers
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Gotta hit the sack. Will think about albums. Nice break from politics. Back to bashing Obama soon, I promise. ; )
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Kevin:Eagles Hotel California and The Long RunGarth Brooks (self titled) and No FencesSimon and Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled WaterClose next five (again in no particular order, just what I've always sung along with every single song on the album): Trisha Yearwood Hearts in Armor; anything by Peter, Paul and Mary; anything by Bob Seger (OK, move Night Moves up over The Long Run in the top five); Heart's Dreamboat Annie; and Fleetwood Mac FM and Rumours.
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Anything by Tom PettyAgree w/michi S & G Troubled Water, I saw them in concert in probably 67 or 68 in a theater in the round in OCThe Doors…….Strange DaysThe Beatles………Abbey RoadAdele………..Rolling in the Deep
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Troll: Live from the Filmore East. Like that. I don't think I'm familiar with The Modern Lovers. Time to check Spotify.
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Jonathan Richman (the minstrel in There's Something About Mary started the band. Member then went on to help found The Cars and Talking Heads. The Sex Pistols, in one of their first recordings, did a cover of Roadrunner.
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Almost forgot–Amy Winehouse Back in Black. Didn't think I'd like it given her and her reputation, but the album blew me out of the water.
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Not in order, and limited to country and rock, chosen in part because they had themes as albums and in part because I liked them:Lyle Lovett and His Large BandHotel CaliforniaDream of the Blue Turtles [Sting]Brothers in Arms [Dire Straits]Taking the Long way [Dixie Chicks]Revolver [Beatles]Phases and Changes [Willie Nelson]As to this last one, it is best listened to more than a few months AFTER the divorce or breakup.My actual choices for a desert island:Concierto [Jim Hall, Paul Desmond, and Chet Baker]Time Out [Brubeck – Desmond]All Blues [Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter]Butterfly [the version from the 50s with Bjoerling and de Los Angeles]7th Symphony [Beethoven] hopefully coupled on the cd with the fifth, for variety.************************************Honorable Mention: Long Run, Slowhand [Clapton],Help!, Dire Straits, the album
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And the best cover ever is still Hendrix's version of "Watchtower". It changed how Dylan played it, btw.
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Mark, an honorable mention for me is Sting's Nothing Like the Sun along with The Band and Dylan's Before the Flood.In case you were curious.
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I was. I am.
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People have mentioned a number of diverse, great albums (many I thought of), so I'll just mention a few others. I always have trouble saying what my "favorite" anything is. But: probably at least 3 other Beatles albums. Dark Side (and the underrated Shine On ….). The Wall? Maybe.Joshua Tree and All You Can't Leave Behind. Which Stones and Zep albums??!! Pretenders I and Learning to Crawl. I have to think about Neil Young and CSN(Y). I'm not sure any of Petty and the HB's first three albums deserves it, but each is strong, and they were quite a run together.
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For your consideration: Led Zeppilen II and The Beatle's Revolver.
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How about Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah"? KD Lang or the Canadian Tenors? One of my all time favorite songs.
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MarkI love Lyle Lovett when he does blues, country not so much. I love bluegrass though.
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Revolver and Zep II definitely.But Zep I, IV, Houses of the Holy, and Physical Graffiti are all at the top, too. (III is, meh.)Exile on Mainstreet is always considered a Stones pinnacle. Honestly isn't my favorite stuff. But I'm not sure what is.
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I had trouble with which Stones album because they are all mixed bags to me.The "Large Band" album has some real blues on it, LMS. Francine Reed's vocals are featured.Monday night I will be flying back from a funeral in PA. Thus I will miss the fire relief concert here at the Erwin Center.Lovett, Chicks, Nelson, Asleep at the Wheel,George Strait, Eric Johnson, Joe Satriani,Chris Cross, Terri hendrix, Randi Rogers, and the remaining Texas Tornadoes.
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About halfway between Allison Krause and the forever beautiful Emmy Lou Harris is the folk-bluegrass-celtic-country of Kathy Mattea. On the album "Time Passes By" there were several noteworthy songs and one stinker, IMO. But I really liked this one, here sung in duet with Dougie McLean who wrote it.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wv4Wpychxh8
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Kevin, and any of you, who like KW and me really love Alison Krauss, you should get a moment to listen to Gillian Welch.
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Thanks for the tips mark, I'm usually dependent on my kids for music direction, but it doesn't always work out so well. I've listened to enough Ani DeFranco to last a lifetime.
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LMS, did you listen to/watch the Kathy Mattea song? I think you would love it.
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I liked that mark, I've never heard her before AFAIK. I like Allison Krause a lot as well.
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Gotta come back to this thread next time I'm on Spotify. Lots of great ideas on this thread. New I could count on you. I notice about 3/4ths of my big albums are ones I encountered in highschool/college. Same for about 3/4 of my favorite movies. I wonder if that's more nostalgia than representative of the overall quality of the albums.
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