Dr. J

Good call on Minos, Myrna! Great food! Enjoy yerselves.

Johnny Cash has a number. Help Me and I Came to Believe appear on his last album (A Hundred Highways).

Tonight! As mentioned, tonight's show is being filmed as part of a documentary on The Spades. Don't know much about it. I know it's being produced by the Sympatico MSN entertainment folks and being put together by Frame Blender the people who did the last Sloan video. Whatever it is, I know the Hammer folks are about to liven it up. Have a great time everyone! Damn.....Damn......

Still can't stand upright hahahahaha Line of the day! Good one, A-M!

I believe Steely Dan is writing a letter to Kung.

What he said. I'd give my left nut to be at this one.

I'm no expert on the subject, but it seems to me that Hank Williams was a very fragile person, both physically and emotionally, from a very early age. He dealt with pain on many different levels and that pain came to permeate his music. There's no question that part of his abuse of booze and pills was to kill the physical pain that haunted him throughout his life. As popo rightly points out, Hank had a difficult time dealing with dominant women in his life, particularly his mother (his father left shortly after he was born) and his first wife, both of whom wanted to direct his career for their own purposes and who were constantly at war with each other....with Hank caught in the middle. Lastly, even his music was a difficult place for him to be. What Hank was trying to do musically, with his blend of honky tonk/blues/gospel etc was seen for the most part as being outside the norm by country purists who termed it "hillbilly music". Hank felt deeply, to the very end, that he was looked down upon by the very community where he so desperately sought acceptance. That's certainly not the whole story and separating fact from fiction regarding Hank Williams is difficult, but I think that's part of it (in a nutshell). I said to Hank Williams: how lonely does it get? Hank Williams hasn't answered me yet But I hear him coughing all night long A hundred floors above me In the tower of song Leonard Cohen

Amen to that popo. Hank Williams killed himself only in the sense that he knew his combination of booze, drugs (morphine/pain-killers), ill-health and self-destructive lifestyle would eventually take his life ("I'll Never Get Out of This World Alive").

Jesse James is a traditional American folk song. Eddy Arnold did a version in 1959, but it's not the original. Just a clarification.

Recent retakes of very old songs (with approximate date of original) 1. Hoedown - Bela Fleck and the Flecktones (Aaron Copland, 1942) 2. The Souljazz Orchestra - Creator Has A Master Plan (Pharoah Sanders, 1969) 3. Sting - In Darkness Let Me Dwell (John Dowland, c. 17th century) 4. Norah Jones - Cold, Cold Heart (Hank Williams, 1951) 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

That was Jaimoe.

I understand that this show (as well as the next night in Hamilton) are being filmed as part of a documentary being produced on the band.

Theme: Favourite Studio Tracks featuring Special Guests 1. Johnny Cash - Bridge Over Troubled Water (featuring Fiona Apple) 2. Phish - Roggae (w/ Gordon Stone.. sweet pedal steel solo) 3. Double Trouble - Baby, There's No One like You (Dr. John, Willie Nelson) 4. Drive-By Truckers - Aftermath U.S.A. (John "Jojo" Herman) 5. David Bowie - Fame (John Lennon) 6. Frank Zappa - Canard Du Jour (Jean-Luc Ponty) 7. Phish - If I Could (Allison Kraus) 8. Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach Your Children (Jerry Garcia on pedal steel) 9. David Bowie - the let's Dance album (Stevie Ray Vaughan) 10.Jennifer Warnes - First We Take Manhattan (Stevie Ray Vaughan) 11. 12.

Theme: Least Favourite Songs on Favourite Albums 1. Frank Zappa & The Mothers of Invention - Chrome Plated Megaphone of Destiny (We're Only In It For The Money) 2. The Buzzcocks - Radio Nine (A Different Kind of Tension) 3. Jimi Hendrix Experience - Little Miss Strange (Electric Ladyland) 4. Drive-By Truckers - Your Daddy Hates Me (Decoration Day) 5. The Beatles - Octopus's Garden (Abbey Road) 6. David Bowie - The Bewlay Brothers (Hunky Dory) 7. Bob Dylan - You're A Big Girl Now (Blood On The Tracks) 8. The Kinks - Art Lover (Give The People What They Want) 9. Blind Boys of Alabama - The Cross (Higher Ground) 10. Springsteen - Candy's Room (Darkness on the Edge of Town) 11. 12.

Just finished reading this Great read....... for what it says and doesn't say about Hank Williams.

cool endorsement

James & the lads will be in St. Kitts at the Mansion House w/The Marantz Project. Doors at 9. Spades at 10:30. Cover is $3.00 "crunchy guitar rock with a touch of roots... glorious pint hoisting choruses abound" Ottawa Citizen 05/15/07

Happy birthday, Brad! Have yerself a great day!

Tonight! Nice article in today's Whig Standard.

Theme: Songs which give a command/advice, beginning with "Stop" or "Don't" 1. Zappa - Don't Eat the Yellow Snow ** 2. Joey Ramone - Don't Worry About Me (~ the saddest of all Ramones songs, written when Joey was terminally ill; but apparently cool with that.) 3. Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) 4. Journey - Don't Stop Believing 5. The Band - Don't Do It 6. Jane's Addiction - Stop! 7. Dylan & The Band - Don't Ya Tell Henry 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.

Way to go, meggo! Well done! Takes a pile of hard work (and commitment) to bring something like that together! Inspiring indeed.

Songs about the future 1. The Flaming Lips - All We Have Is Now 2. Deltron 3030 - 3030 3. The Who - 905 4. The Shirelles-Will YOu Still Love Me Tomorrow? 5. David Byrne - In the Future 6. Beatles - When I'm Sixty-Four 7. Bob Dylan - When the Ship Comes In 8. Frank Zappa - Dong Work for Yuda (or anything off of Joe's Garage, on which it is the Central Scrutinzer's job to "enforce all of the laws that have not been passed yet..." including criminalizing music and the music industry) 9. Steve Miller Band - Children of the Future 10. 11. 12.

* old list Said: Songs about Native Canadians and Americans 1. Neil Young - Pocahontas 2. Neil Young - Cortez the Killer 3. Buffy St Marie - Now That The Buffalo's Gone 4. Robbie Robertson - It is a Good Day to Die 5. Johnny Cash - Apache Tears 6. Dylan - Shenandoah 7. Johnny Cash - The Ballad of Ira Hayes 8. Johnny Horton - Cherokee Boogie 9. Frank Zappa - Concentration Moon 10. Dave Matthews Band - Don't Drink the Water 11. Propagandhi - Oka Everywhere 12. John Hartford - Indian War Whoop Theme: Songs About First Nations People 1. Frank Zappa - Don't Eat Yellow Snow 2. Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills 3. Bruce Cockburn - Stolen Land 4. Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning 5. Emmylou Harris - Blackhawk (written by Daniel Lanois) 6. Harry Nilsson - 10 Little Indians 7. Johnny Preston - Running Bear (written by JP Richardson - the Big Bopper) 8. 9. 10. 11. 12.