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November 09, 2005

Fighting Procrastination...

I can be a world-class procrastinator when the planets and moods align correctly...particularly when I'm suffering from what Churchill called "the black dog".  I picked up on this interesting procrastination fighting technique over at Randy Elrod's Ethos blog a couple of weeks ago - and Randy picked it up from someone who picked it up from someone - ain't the blogosphere great!

Link: Ethos : Procrastination hack: “(10 2)*5”....

If you have a minute, please go browse Randy's weblog.  I met Randy briefly at BlogNashville earlier this year.  He's an interesting guy with a diverse range of interests and his weblog reflects that fact. 

November 02, 2005

Busted

It's bad when it has been so long between posts that I start to get flack from my mother-in-law.  That's bad.  So bad it will shame me into writing more instead of just bookmarking things to write about "later"?  Well, we will have to see, won't we Norma. 

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    Solomon Burke: Nashville
    Third in a series of very good albums by Solomon Burke. This one was produced by the great Buddy Miller in his home studio. Lots of good Nashville-based supporting artists. Burke can still use that tremendous voice of his to great effect on almost any style of music. You can hear him struggle a bit with one or two of the songs on this album but overall it's a very listenable and enjoyable album. (*****)

  • Sonny Landreth -

    Sonny Landreth: Grant Street
    Very good live album - good sampler of Landreth's work from a number of his CDs plus a couple of cuts that I don't think he has ever released on a studio CD. The first live CD from the premier slide guitar player. (*****)

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    Sonny Landreth: The Road We're On
    This is one of last year's CDs that somehow got shuffled to the side for a while...now it is in constant rotation on my iPod and on the car CD player. Landreth is the king of slide guitar players (imho) and this is a solid effort. Not his best maybe, but overall quite good. (****)

  • Roomful of Blues -

    Roomful of Blues: Standing Room Only
    Roomful of Blues' latest really delivers. This is the second CD featuring lead singer Paul Dufresne and he has settled in very nicely indeed to fronting this perpetually hot, perpetually reinvented horn-driven blues band. These last two CDs are among the best in Roomful's long history - and that is saying quite a bit. Highly recommended. (*****)

  • Rodney Crowell -

    Rodney Crowell: Fate's Right Hand
    The latest from a consistently interesting songwriter. Some pretty dark songs but then that seems to be par for the course with Crowell. (****)

  • The Dixie Hummingbirds -

    The Dixie Hummingbirds: Diamond Jubilation
    Wonderful gospel music. This is the Dixie Hummingbirds 75th Anniversary CD...amazing. As Isaac Hayes says in the liner notes..."in the beginning, after the word, before rock 'n roll, and before there was rap, hip-hop, disco, punk, funk, metal, soul, Motown, rock-a-billy, before bebop, doo-wop, and the big band swing, there was the Dixie Hummingbirds." Long may they sing. (*****)

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