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Any Time - Emmett Miller I had to look up who first recorded this classic country song that my dad loved Another won't embed so here's the link if you're interested

It's starting to move away from me. I live just south of Fort Pierce. No damage to the home, haven't lost power yet, but the ground is wet, trees are leaning, so that is still a possibility. People with boats that can make the crossing will probably collect food and supplies. I've got a lot of non-perishable food I bought for the hurricane, if someone is going, the food is theirs. I also plan to donate blood, as type O is very versatile. If I didn't have gigs lined up, I'd volunteer to go over and help. I feel for the Bahamians. If you can do something for them, please do, they are good neighbors. Notes

Love Is Like Oxygen - Sweet Won't emebd, here's a link

I'm on the east coast about even with the eye right now. The wind has been blowing from the north since Sunday and with frequent rain squalls. Definitely tropical storm force and I believe I heard 48mph on the radio. This is nothing compared to the Bahamas. Notes

"Space Cowboy" - Steve Miller Band

Walking On Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves

Perhaps they are commenting that they think those groups are 'for the birds'.

Space Is The Place - Sun Ra (I don't know if I'd want to gig with that outfit on)

Runaway - Del Shannon (covered excellently by Bonnie Raitt)

Flying Home - jazz standard by Benny Goodman and Lionel Hampton and forever associated with sax man Illinois Jacquet

Speaking of addiction, how about; The Pusher - Steppenwolf (***** the pusherman) written by Hoyt Axton OK that's not quite it, but auto- censored so instead of ****** how about: Gosh Darn the pusherman? Doesn't have the same impact though.

Life is too short to listen to boring music

"Addicted To Love" - Robert Palmer

"Centerfold" - J Geils Band lyrical association: My memory has just been sold My angel is the centerfold

"Angel of the Morning" - Merrilee Rush & The Turnabouts (IMO her tender approach makes it the much better version than the later Juice Newton cover - YMMV) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLm92VlmavE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwJfAjtgtKQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qdt6MP6zy4Y https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6iC64-47mQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGBNAu2vaRI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQToIeA8csU Looks like none of these will embed - if anyone else can do it, please let me know how you did it.

Angel Baby - Rosie and the Originals

I make all my own backing tracks for my duo http://www.s-cats.com I've been asked so many times in the Band-in-a-Box forum, that I made my own instruction and information page. Feel free to use whatever you like. http://www.nortonmusic.com/backing_tracks.html I still use Master Tracks Pro because MIDI is easier there than in Cakewalk. Cakewalk does audio though and MTPro does not. Insights and incites by Notes

Ah, the last comment at the bottom. I concur.

Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child - Traditional https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXg9UFUXFXU (Odetta) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hohnr22zTxc (Mahalia Jackson)

Twilight Zone (When The Bullet Hits The Bone) - Golden Earring

Sorry guys, it's true. I've never seen Simpsons, Sopranos, Taxi, Cheers, Idol, Thrones, Downtown Abby, or anything. The last two shows on TV I watched were (1) Johnny Carson's last Tonight Show because I grew up with that an (2) Jay Leno's first tonight show to see how it changed. And since without a cable or antenna I can't get anything but one Christian Sermon channel on my TV (snowy at that) I had to go to my mother-in-laws to see them. Paulo, my wife and I talk and talk and laugh and talk constantly. I got very-very lucky with her (she's my second, the first was a disaster). 24/7 wouldn't be too much time together. We work together http://www.s-cats.com and play together. We have similar tastes in music, we both love travel, we both prize experience over possessions, we both have warped senses of humor, and we are each other's best friends. It's been 41 years of bliss. Last year we spent 5 weeks in Australia in a tiny camper van - could have done 50 if we could have afforded it. Like I said, I got lucky. Notes

I quit watching TV in the late 1980s. I've never seen American Idol. No cable, no antenna, no digital converter just a DVD player for an occasional rented movie from Netflix in my mailbox. Gigging on cruise ships for 3 years in the 1980s, when there was no TV on them except the movie that played again and again and again week after week after week broke me of the habit. When I got home I hooked up the cable, and in a couple of months realized I wasn't watching much, and when I forced myself to watch it, I would get fidgety because I was used to doing things. So instead of watching TV I learned to play wind synthesizer, learned to play lead guitar, learned to write aftermarket styles for Band-in-a-Box, learned to create a mail-order business selling those styles, learned to write web pages and transfer that business to the Internet, and I spent a lot of quality time with my wife/best-friend/lover/band-mate. There is nothing wrong with TV, but it's not for my wife or me. Insights and incites by Notes

It is hard. That could be a cover up after the first anti-auto-tune wave years ago when singers were saying "I don't need it", or it could be the truth. I guess it doesn't matter, what matters is IMHO auto-tune is the most abused technology in the recording industry. I have nothing against Cher except that song. All in all she's a decent singer. Notes

I read that when she went into the session she hadn't sung in a very, very long time. She was out of practice, her voice was out of shape, she had a lack of control and that made her intonation terrible. So they used auto-tune to fix it. I forget where I read that so I can't say for sure it was a trusted source.