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A great collaboration IMO - must have been a lot of work to pull it off and definitely worth it ☝️ Listening to Vol 1 (above) gave me a desire for Vol 2 (listing on CD but it's also on UTube) Honkers And Bar Walkers Vol 2 - Various Artists It's old-time music but still good IMO

Loud sounds good to me, but it's bad for me. Probably most people which is why in the 1990s and up, pop music was extremely compressed to sound louder on the radio. That became known as the "loudness wars". Years ago I knew a drummer (he is now in the 'great gig in the sky') who played standards jazz to the 55+ people in the 1980s. They played small settings, and never played all that loud. Probably at the drum kt about 90-100 db. He kept buying brighter and brighter cymbals because his high frequency was so damaged that he couldn't hear them well. I think it's OK if we damage ourselves for our craft. It's a freedom. But I don't think it's OK to harm somebody else permanently. Notes

Honkers And Bar Walkers - Various Artists A former sax student of mine turned me on to this (and Volume II) years ago. I'm listening to it on CD but it's also on UTube. It's sax therapy.

Over Under Sideways Down - Yardbirds A classic...

I used to know a guy who had one of these, along with a regular contrabass and everything all the way up to a sopranino. He was a very talented instrument repairman but eventually retired. Did a lot of club dates with various orchestras too. Don't know what he's up to now. There is one instrument I know that takes more air than that. The flute. (Believe it) With the flute most of the air is wasted and not going through the instrument. But I'd rather schlep the flute to the gig than a subcontrabass any day.

"Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child" - traditional spiritual

Runaway - Del Shannon But I like the Bonnie Raitt version better

IMHO the best version of T-Bone Walker's "Call It Stormy Monday" aka "Stormy Monday Blues" is by Bobby "Blue" Bland Stormy Monday Blues = Bobby "Blue" Bland Call It Stormy Monday - T-Bone Walker

You Don't Have To Be A Star - Marilyn McCoo & Billy Davis Jr.

I don't remember the 60s. At least after 1964.

I'll be dog gone.

'Round Midnight - Thelonious Monk

Even when he feels sheepish?

I want to a Chines restaurant where they decided to Wok their dog.

"Who Are You" - The Who (or "Hu R U" - The Hu) ?

^^^ one of my favorite Henley songs ^^^ While we are at the laundromat...

Balada Conducatorolui - Taraf de Haidouks Gypsy music made me think of this. I love his pulling the string over the violin strings to get that scratchy sound.

Before you light the candles, make sure the fire department is on call ?

Half a century old. Happy Birthday - hope you get 50 more.

I gave up golf because I couldn't get the ball past the windmill ;) Actually, in Jr High School I discovered playing in a rock band and I discovered it got girls to pay attention to me. So there was no time left for sports.

I worry about warts

Looks like Wibbles is Wobbling

Yes We Can Can - Pointer Sisters When there were 4 and they were leaning just a little to the jazz/rock genre...

Some people think they are at home watching TV and are not civilized to respect the fact that others come to listen to the music. I've seen this happen during symphony orchestra concerts too. If I was a god, I'd smite people like that :D - lucky for them I'm not!

Silly is good!