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Jazzmoose & Chris, Sorry to not reply promptly, I've been away from the computer for a couple of days. Johnny Cash was #1 because, as a CMT poster put it "he's dying" which is sad but true. But they still used Hank W's picture to advertise the show! Bob Wills did make it, well down the list but ahead of Jimmie Rodgers and Lefty Frizell (I think)--all three are top ten to me (so is Johnny Cash, just not #1). Of course some of the posters at CMT complained 'cause hosers like Kenny Chesney weren't on the list. The retort to that was that Kenny "shouldn't even be allowed to watch"! Why not, he might learn something. The show did inspire me to buy a first(?) pressing of Ray Price's Night Life for $3 at the record show this weekend. Maybe they should just invent a new genre/radio format and call it something like "pop for hicks"...

I managed to see most of this last night while feeding and playing with the baby. They had some nice vintage clips but, predictably, it was skewed towards the recent posers. They managed to leave off Ray Price, Web Pierce, Hank Thompson, Hank Snow, Marty Robbins, the Stanley Bros. and others. You thought jazz fans were contentious? Check out the postings at CMT. And Hank Williams Sr. not #1!? I thought that was in the freaking constitution...

Oh, they renamed Play the Hip Hits, Soul Men or something unoriginal like that....but it's exactly the same album.

I got an album by Ivo Papasov(sp?) and His Bulgarian Wedding Band over a decade ago and loved it, can anyone recomend anything similar?

In the New on CD section of Fantasy's new releases page they announce the US release of the previously not officially available in the us imports Play the Hip Hits by the MGs and Stax Instrumentals by the MGs & Mar-Keys. These are both quite nice, esp'ly Hip Hits which is all covers. And it's nice to see them out here, even if it means I paid too much for 'em, BUT I would've rearranged Hip Hits to Include the instrumental rendition of "Dock of the Bay" which I think is a hit waiting to happen. Wonder if Ace's 1000, 2000, etc. Volts of Stax various artist series will ever see a domestic release?

OK, help me out here guys, which album had "Directly From My Heart to You" featuring Don "Sugarcane" Harris on searing 'lectric violin? I like some FZ, some not, generally the earlier stuff. I find the electicism in overdrive aspect to be a particular issue for me...doo wop meets Stravinsky can be a mind blowin' experience but often I wish they'd just stick to one thing at a time. How do y'all feel 'bout that part of it?

Oh man, so many times I have nightmares. But then I dream about records that don't even exist...

Big Al, So I take it you don't agree with the Rolling Stone writer of the time (Lester Bangs?) who described Alvin Lee of TYA as "grimacing like he was being jecked off with steel wool" (implying that he sounded like it too)?

I recently found the Benny Goodman, Ben Webster & Red Norvo Time/Life 3LP boxes for $2.99/each and the James P. Johnson for $5.99. About a week before I got the Smithsonian 6LP Ellington 1938-1940 box for $12. I've got some serious pre-bop listening to do! Of course, I didn't find anything that I was actually 'looking for', and I got my find within a few minutes of walking in, anyone else find that their shopping goes that way?