tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-63635142024-02-20T04:10:52.574-05:00Locust St.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger367125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-90512790857796623142010-06-07T21:52:00.001-04:002010-06-11T09:07:24.951-04:00Sisters, 1971Irma Thomas, We Won't Be In Your Way Anymore.Carole King, It's Too Late.Lynn Anderson, Rose Garden.Loretta Lynn, One's On The Way.Jean Knight, Mr. Big Stuff.Vicki Anderson, I'm Too Tough For Mr. Big Stuff (Hot Pants).Honey Cone, Want Ads.Merry Clayton, Southern Man.Ruth Copeland, Play With Fire.Joni Mitchell, Little Green.Betty Wright, Clean Up Woman.Bonnie Raitt, Women Be Unknownnoreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-64806753961840868382010-04-06T17:29:00.000-04:002010-04-06T17:29:13.895-04:00What Now?"If this prologue goes on much longer, it will be 1972."Anonymous wit, on the previous post.So, yes, after making a big deal about reviving the site and changing direction, etc., I stop posting again. This is owed to a number of reasons, including lack of inspiration and work-related exhaustion, but primarily it's because Blogger has made it quite clear that this site is getting axed if Unknownnoreply@blogger.com27tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-7736144433049212302010-02-24T16:11:00.008-05:002010-04-16T11:01:09.667-04:001971: A Prologue, Starring Richard NixonRod Stewart, Amazing Grace.John Fahey, Amazing Grace.I would like to leave a renewed conviction in America that the system does work, that democratic government is better than the alternatives, that reforms can be made through peaceful change...In a sense it's all right here in this room, right here in this chair. Whoever is President of the United States, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-79417170753578298202010-02-10T22:02:00.004-05:002010-02-25T22:11:47.781-05:00The Organization Ain't Really Organized, 1970John Ashbery, Song.The Insect Trust, Be a Hobo/Hoboken Saturday Night.Ornette Coleman Quartet, Forgotten Songs.Bruce Cockburn, Going To the Country.Captain Beefheart and His Magic Band, Bellerin' Plain.Neil Young, Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere (TV rehearsal).Alice Cooper, Beautiful Flyaway.The Kinks, Get Back In the Line.Elaine Stritch and cast of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-52959330405560770312010-02-07T14:30:00.011-05:002010-06-10T11:44:32.221-04:00Hello. In a bid to revive this site, I'm doing a couple of radical things. First, as the very look of the place was getting me down--it was shabby and ugly and dated--this new template (with which I will keep tinkering) is a first step towards bringing Locust St. into the 2010s. Sadly, as yet I've been unable to move all the old comments over, and worst-case scenario is that they'll be unmovable.Unknownnoreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-48272051395204341762010-01-27T20:10:00.005-05:002010-02-11T09:36:43.281-05:00Howard Zinn, 1922-2010.The Clash, Rebel Waltz.Woody Guthrie, Better World A-Comin'.Phil Ochs, I Ain't Marchin' Anymore.Medicine Head, All For Tomorrow.The prisoners of the system will continue to rebel, as before, in ways that cannot be foreseen, at times that cannot be predicted. The new fact of our era is the chance that they may be joined by the guards. We readers and writers of books have Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-71426903144445151782009-12-29T17:08:00.003-05:002010-02-07T17:09:15.298-05:00Absent FriendsJim Carroll, People Who Died.John Martyn, Over The Hill.Jim Dickinson and the New Beale Street Sheiks, You'll Do It All the Time.Eddie Bo, Check Your Bucket.The Seeds, Pushin' Too Hard.Buck Griffin, Bawlin' and Squallin'.The Ronettes, Baby, I Love You.Billy Lee Riley, Red Hot.The Cramps, Human Fly.Hank Locklin, Please Help Me I'm Falling.Blossom Dearie, Tea For Two.Les Paul and MaryUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-50560833316734759122009-12-19T14:23:00.004-05:002010-02-11T09:36:56.537-05:00My life as a mistaken Jew is the final installment of Boogie Woogie Flu's Hanukkah series. With a preface by John Berryman (thanks, JB!)Merry Christmas and happy (belated) Hanukkah!Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-21374670045903017252009-12-02T17:45:00.001-05:002010-04-16T11:10:49.058-04:00New People, 1924Eddie Hunter and Alex Rogers with Luckey Roberts, I'm Done.Clarence M. Jones, Hula Lou.Jimmy Blythe, Chicago Stomp.Old Southern Jug Band, Hatchet-Head Blues.The Mound City Blue Blowers, Red Hot!Blossom Seeley with the Georgians, Lazy.Viola McCoy with Fletcher Henderson's Jazz Five, I Ain't Gonna Marry, Ain't Gonna Settle Down.Rosa Henderson & the Choo Choo Jazzers, Hard Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-17553056782849332562009-10-30T13:55:00.002-04:002010-02-07T17:06:11.884-05:00The Second Line, 1923Wendell Hall, It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'.Belle Baker with the Virginians, Jubilee Blues.I.J. Hochman & the Jewish Orchestra, Rusishe Sher (Russian Sher).Fiddlin' John Carson, The Old Hen Cackled and the Rooster's Gonna Crow.Piron's New Orleans Orchestra, West Indies Blues.Darius Milhaud, La Création du Monde: Premier Tableau.Jesse Crump, Mr. Crump Rag.Q. Roscoe Snowden, Unknownnoreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-13208573666758174902009-10-16T00:09:00.001-04:002009-12-02T12:38:48.467-05:00A Weary AnniversaryRonnie Lane, Anniversary.Count Basie, Jive At Five.Willie Brown, Future Blues.They were wheeling wheeling in each other's arms heedless at the far end where they had drawn up one of the white blinds. Above a rather low ceiling five great chandeliers swept one after the other almost to the waxed parquet floor reflecting in their hundred thousand drops the single sparkle of a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-67818074335009381962009-10-02T07:00:00.016-04:002010-02-07T17:03:58.122-05:00The Imperial Roman Jazz, 1923King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Chimes Blues.King Oliver's Creole Jazz Band, Snake Rag.Jelly Roll Morton, New Orleans Joys.Jelly Roll Morton, Wolverine Blues.Clarence Williams' Blue Five, Kansas City Man Blues.Mamie Smith and the Harlem Trio, Lady Luck Blues.James P. Johnson, Scouting Around.Fletcher Henderson Orchestra, The Dicty Blues.Bessie Smith, Jail House Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-15127189877769865902009-09-14T06:50:00.004-04:002009-12-02T12:38:12.237-05:00Decade: 2 (2002-2003)the unknown bomber, Baghdad, 2003Ivor Cutler, Once a Fortnight.The Mekons, Thee Olde Trip to Jerusalem.The New Pornographers, The Laws Have Changed.Auguries and imprecations: Ivor Cutler, the last eccentric: recorded in 2002, dead in 2006; Mekons on OOOH!, their best LP of the decade, 2002; New Pornographers on 2003's Electric Version ("What you have already lost, consider asUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-15696024793901536382009-08-26T07:00:00.005-04:002009-12-02T12:33:22.006-05:00The Beneficent Spider, 1922 Marcel Proust on his deathbed (photo by Man Ray).Lizzie Miles, She Walked Right Up and Took My Man Away.Paul Hindemith, Suite '1922': Ragtime.Edna St. Vincent Millay, Recuerdo.George Antheil, Airplane Sonata (As Fast As Possible).Kid Ory's Sunshine Orchestra, Society Blues.Husk O'Hare's Super Orchestra of Chicago, San.Friars Society Orchestra, Tiger Rag.Trixie Smith Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-59905044427780863932009-08-17T07:00:00.006-04:002009-12-02T12:31:56.547-05:001922: The Morning the Fiddlers CameEck Robertson and Henry C. Gilliland, Arkansas Traveler.Eck Robertson, Sallie Gooden.Eck Robertson, Ragtime Annie.The talent manager at the Victor Talking Machine Co. sits in the office of his colleague who runs publishing. He often comes in here when his colleague is out, mainly to hide from his own prospects. He drinks a cup of coffee as he sits in the spare Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-36412354843407813682009-08-05T17:30:00.002-04:002009-09-13T15:38:20.338-04:00Les VacancesAugust is going to be a very quiet month here, as I need time to recharge, sleep, legitimately work and plan some lengthy (as ever) posts coming up for the fall. So stay cool and relax and have a drink on me.If you're starved for music-related writing, you might like the Bowie song-by-song blog, which I started as a lark and will keep going until I'm tired of it.Happy August. It's Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-62515748624016705752009-07-31T09:00:00.004-04:002009-09-13T15:44:45.560-04:00Decade: 1 (2000-2001): 2The Dirtbombs, Cedar Point '76.Bantam Rooster, Shitlist +1.The Greenhornes, Stayed Up Last Night.The White Stripes, Fell In Love With A Girl. The Wildbunch, She's Guatemala.Lightning Bolt, Ride The Sky.Young punks, mainly of Michigan stock: Detroit's The Dirtbombs' pinball lust ode (first released in '99 as a split-side single with the White Stripes' "Hand Springs" and Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-28928465350090679372009-07-21T06:59:00.006-04:002009-09-13T15:40:13.749-04:00Decade: 1 (2000-2001): 1Cultural prophecy is always a mug's game.Harold Bloom.Dave Chappelle, Black President.One night on stage in Washington DC, in June 2000, Dave Chappelle summoned the "first black president," much in the same way as Richard Pryor had done 25 years earlier--offering it as a figure of future myth and, for much of the audience, a scenario so surreal that when they took it as Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-64112913021351661892009-07-16T06:58:00.012-04:002009-08-28T17:06:07.901-04:00Songmasonry: There'll Be Some Changes MadeEthel Waters (1921).Marion Harris (1924).Josie Miles (1924).Edith Wilson and "Doc" Straine (1925).Chicago Rhythm Kings (1928).Eddie Lang (1928).The Boswell Sisters (1932).Fats Waller (1935).Roy Newman and His Boys (1935).W. Lee O'Daniel and His Hillbilly Boys (1937).Ocie Stockard and the Wanderers (1937).Pee Wee Russell (1938).Bunny Berigan (1939).MildredUnknownnoreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-17509613412831837132009-07-06T07:00:00.001-04:002009-08-17T09:07:20.574-04:00Normalcy, 1921Southern Negro Quartette, I'll Be Good But I'll Be Lonesome.Al Bernard, Frankie and Johnny.Luigi and Antonio Russolo, Corale."Anonymous Jazz Band," Muscle Shoals Blues.Sissle's Sizzling Syncopaters, Long Gone.Lanin's Southern Serenaders, Shake It and Break It.Ladd's Black Aces, Aunt Hagar's Children's Blues.Mary Stafford, Strut Miss Lizzie.Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds (with Johnny DunnUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-55474302701713586572009-06-25T20:37:00.006-04:002009-07-11T11:40:56.779-04:00Michael Jackson, 1958-2009The Jackson Five, The Love You Save.The Jackson Five, 2-4-6-8.Michael Jackson, Farewell My Summer Love.Michael Jackson, Get On the Floor.Michael Jackson, Billie Jean (demo).Michael Jackson, Baby Be Mine.The Minutemen, Political Song For Michael Jackson To Sing.I leant upon a coppice gateWhen Frost was spectre-gray,And Winter's dregs made desolateThe weakening eye of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-79869225598271770712009-06-18T16:53:00.002-04:002009-08-17T09:08:27.274-04:001921: An Aria of CanariesEubie Blake, Sounds of Africa.Eubie Blake, Ma! (He's Making Eyes At Me).Zez Confrey, Poor Buttermilk.Frank Banta, Wild Cherry Rag.James P. Johnson, Harlem Strut.James P. Johnson, Carolina Shout.James P. Johnson, Keep Off the Grass.Fletcher Henderson, Unknown Blues.Fats Waller, Birmingham Blues.Pianists in jazz, like canaries in a mineshaft, are messengers of change.Allen Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-6550244446916494482009-06-08T07:00:00.043-04:002009-07-15T22:07:40.971-04:00Paradise Is Just a Curse, 1920Maurice Burkhart, It's the Smart Little Feller Who Stocked Up His Cellar That's Getting the Beautiful Girls.Van and Schenck, All the Boys Love Mary.Mamie Smith's Jazz Hounds, Crazy Blues.Louisiana Five, Weeping Willow Blues.Paul Whiteman and His Orchestra, Wang Wang Blues.Frank Crumit, My Little Bimbo Down on the Bamboo Isle.Isham Jones and His Rainbo Orchestra, WhenUnknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-2446451275288962202009-06-01T08:15:00.001-04:002009-06-27T10:04:50.368-04:00Everything DiesBruce Springsteen, Atlantic City.Fats Domino, Detroit City Blues.Sonny Boy Williamson, Pontiac Blues.Peppermint Harris, Cadillac Funeral.General Motors Corp., the century-old automaker battered by the economic downturn, mounting debt and management problems, filed for bankruptcy Monday as part of an Obama administration plan to shrink the automaker to a sustainable size and give a Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6363514.post-69279567649408693612009-05-21T06:45:00.002-04:002009-07-15T22:06:15.925-04:00Broken Blossoms: 1919IWW headquarters after Palmer raid, NYC, 15 November 1919.Edward Elgar, Cello Concerto: 2nd Movement.Al Bernard with the Kansas Jazz Boys, Bluin' the Blues.Wilbur Sweatman's Jazz Orchestra, Kansas City Blues.All Star Trio, Shimmee Town.Louisiana Five, Clarinet Squawk.Nora Bayes, Just Like a Gypsy.Art Hickman's Orchestra, Rose Room.Art Hickman's Orchestra, On the Streets of Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0