Neal Pomea

"Now you're chunking in there"

Congratulations Astros! This is the World Series matchup I was hoping for ever since my Washington Nationals were eliminated from the wild card race in the last week of the regular season. We should see some great pitching! Maybe even the White Sox bullpen this time around! Too bad for the Cardinals, though. It may take a while before we see the two teams with the best regular season records match up in a World Series.

No credit at all to the Astros? Aside from Farnsworth, relievers for both teams, including Clemens, held off several rallies. I don't know the number of men LOB but it seemed high. It was a double game really, using all their players. Sorry to see the Braves lose under those circumstances. Good luck Houston!

Actually, the White Sox were in the World Series in 1959. they haven't WON since 1917. ← 59? 17? Yeah, I can see how long suffering they are in Boston. Boo hoo.

Yes but who suffers more, the one that continually has a good team yet falls just short, or the one that usually sucks every year? The Boston fan knows heartbreak, the White Sox fan knows shitty baseball. (I'm a Philies/Mariner fan btw - not from Boston) ← Who suffers more? The team who has been out of the chances longer, that's who, including the Astros. This year I root definitely the Chisox. They have been out of it longer. Since the Black Sox scandal. Since this is the steroids scandal year, it would be ironic if they won. I don't think they have anyone on their team in the scandal this time. My hats off to Ted Williams. Greatest hitter of all time!

Hoping for a White Sox/Astros or Braves World Series. Chisox longer suffering than Bosox though you wouldn't know it. Those are the most insufferably whining fans of all. They have had their chances many more times than the Chisox. Boston is a great franchise but I hate them in the playoffs. It's the media's fault for making them their darling. Braves? I hate them but Bobby Cox deserves it. What a run! Astros? If the Nationals couldn't make it then I root for the Astros. The Zephyrs are our AAA team, but for now I guess Houston has to be New Orleans' team...

Hoping for a White Sox/Astros or Braves World Series. Chisox longer suffering than Bosox though you wouldn't know it. Those are the most insufferably whining fans of all. They have had their chances many more times than the Chisox. Braves? I hate them but Bobby Cox deserves it. What a run! Astros? If the Nationals couldn't make it then I root for the Astros. The Zephyrs are our AAA team, but for now I guess Houston has to be New Orleans' team...

They left out gospel. Gospel singing is integral to bluegrass, IMO. I think Bill Monroe was a genius gospel song writer, like Albert E. Brumley, and his stuff when Jimmy Martin was a Blue Grass Boy is unsurpassed! "I hear a voice calling, it must be our Lord!" Shivers... Then there's the Stanley Brothers doing Rank Stranger, etc.

Sorry if this is off-topic. I thought Rob Bamberger did a nice job paying tribute to the music of New Orleans this past Saturday at http://www.wamu.org/audio/hj/05/09/hj050903.ram or http://www.wamu.org/audio/hj/05/09/hj050903.asx

New Orleans, with Louis Armstrong and Billie Holliday (1947) played recently on American Movie Classics Louis refers to classical music as longhair music

oops, I did it again

Lash LaRue Snidely Whiplash Nell Nelson Eddy Eddy Arnold Arnold Palmer

The Man from Glad Gladys Knight King Curtis Curtis Fuller Buckminster Fuller Buck Henry

Barney Bigard Humphrey Littleton Tiny Grimes Pig Pen Uncle Pen Earl Scruggs Uncle Dave Macon David Murray Maury Wills

Hoyt Ming Charles Mingus Charlie Hunter

Jeff Bridges The Big Lebowski Monica Lewinski

Kojak Ving Rhames Irving Berlin Irving Mills Miles Davis Sammy Davis Jr.

James Schlesinger Henry Kissinger Jill St. John St. Kitts Eartha Kitt Kit Carson Johnny Carson

Is the guy on the left Woody Shaw?

YOU GOT A PROBLEM WITH SKIFFLE, RUDIE? TELL IT TO SHAGGY Skiffle? I was listening to Richard M. Jones at Red Hot Jazz Archive and found Tickle Britches Blues might be the source for the melody: http://www.redhotjazz.com/songs/jones/tickle.ram

Though he is thought of as a folk musician in some circles and probably should not, guitarist John Fahey loved traditional jazz and featured it on his albums Of Rivers and Religion, After the Ball, and Old Fashioned Love. The last one, OFL, has a great tune by Clarence Williams, Boodle Am, as well as a jazz Keep Your Lamps Trimmed and Burning. Then you might think of the early jazz blues singers like Bessie Smith and that crowd having some connection with the folk music of the day, but I might be wrong.

So dumb she couldn't direct traffic on a one way street

This one's pretty good. That's Stuff Smith right in the middle of the front row. Oscar Pettiford two men to the right, with the light jacket.

Here's an index of some of Bill Monroe's songs: http://www.bluegrasslyrics.com/monroe_index.cfm.htm Of these you might want to hear the following: Body and Soul Close By Down in the Willow Garden First Whippoorwill Kentucky Waltz Memories of Mother and Dad Mother's Only Sleeping On the Old Kentucky Shore Precious Memories Sweetheart, You/ve Done me Wrong Walls of Time When the Golden Leaves Begin to Fall (he has some great gospel stuff as well) There are too many by Hank Williams to name. He is my all-time favorite. From the Louvins, here's a discography: http://www.bluegrasslyrics.com/louvin_index.cfm.htm Try the following: You're Running Wild When I Stop Dreaming The First One to Love You, the Last to Forget If I Could Only Win Your Love The Weapon of Prayer