from a tejano of our acquaintance...

comes this linkybit to share with thee, sort of a welcome to twenteeten as many folk be calling it. Esteban has met and shared a table with the esteemed C J, who oncet upon a time blogged regularly at BookNotes, now busy as one of the wizards behind the curtain of BookLab, out there deep in the heart of texas hillcountry with the fella responsible for sharing the link below, el ultimo dudo laid-backo, G. (for gimme gravy widdem grits...) McLerran. Un Feliz Ano Nuevo a ustedes, tejanos estimados!

y andale pues, chiquitos y chiquititas!, vamos a jugar con morecowbell.dj

btw, there's a picture of both G & C.J. from '06 via the post you'll find here

considering how much happiness...

ju ju's experienced watching Austin City Limits, it be easy for us to celebrate thirty five years of that wonder of television...

my favorite muslim...

aka Richard Thompson: link to today's Fresh Air (NPR) show on RT and release of new boxed set celebrating his 40 year career. Juju only wishes he could play with half the dexterity and ability that RT makes look so easy, and on top of all that, RT be one hell of a songwriter.

add'l linky bits:
BeesWeb, official RT website;
halfway decent RT guitar tablature site;
YouTubeish linkage - RT Guitar School
(more related video on the page);
from Guitar Player online - Richard Thompson;
via Innerviews, Richard Thompson, Narrative Journeys;
R. Thompson, Sway into Emotion;
the Night Light RT interview;
via The Hook, Oct 2006,
1000 years, Thompson's Long Look at History;
RT, Master Craftsman, from Performing Musician;
13 Conversations about Richard Thompson;
a personal tribute to RT c.1997;
a fan's notes, c.2007;
HuffPost, Sept 2007, Publish & Be Damned;
Salon, Aug. 1999, Everyone has their own cliches;
mess o'misc RT related items via Acoustic Guitar online

Robots retreat from 3rd Ave / B75

Well, I was going to write to say it's funny traveling in to mean old Manhatto to see guys who live and play on the block or in the neighborhood (Michael Hearst and LEMUR at Joe's Pub), but then I read down to the bottom of the latest LEMUR email, and... gasp!

Due to economic considerations, we've been forced to close our space at 461 Third Avenue. It has become too expensive to maintain a space in the current economy.

Ah, well, it's not all doom and gloom, and they explain, but sheesh!
Kids, get out there and support your local musical robots and robot builder / composers. They need us, and we need them.

And let me describe this block on third Ave for those of you who don't know it. On the East side there's Bar Tano (makes my elbow sore just thinking about it), the League of Urban Musical Robots, and a storefront mosque. Across the street there's a newish real estate office, a Yemeni American friendship society, and a Mexican flat fix shop. I (blissfully without proof) blame the RE office for any rent increases on that block.

happi holidaze!

some of us still be working on this Friday before the 4th, no biggie as ju ju works with great crew of people doing good work in this world, but he be looking forward to weekend with pals of many years duration as on Saddidey he heading up to D & M's aerie in the Berkeley hills to dine and watch fireworks (if our summertime fog doesn't materialize) and then come Sunnyday he planning get-together with Janey & Phil with plans to grill up some meaty goodness, play guitar and make a joyful noise (more like caterwauling) all afternoon.

Wishing alla ye an enjoyable weekend whatever it is you be up to, and here's a lovely little linky thing sent my way from Bruddah K,
R. McGuinn solo, Turn, Turn, Turn

BBC: Giving up my iPod for a Walkman

Via almost everywhere. Article.

recommendation for ukulele fans...

via the local fishwrap's web presence, we present Tippy Canoe,
her facebook page linked via that page as well, but jessferdahalibut, ye can find it here, too...

The Antiques

The old guy likes The Antiques.

The Antiques

Yo Stumpy! Yo Dante! Yo Esteban!

lookee here!

con muchos besos y abrazos a todos ustedes,
Ju Ju

and then,
later that same day:
ju ju sharing The Morning News with ye...

Oh NO!
another website to add to all the others I'm trying to keep up with!"

be sure to check out this edition's gallery, White Space.

Eine kleine Mayday sonic mayhem

1995, Craig Baldwin, Sonic Outlaws. Via rhizome.

so much music...

via the Hype Machine,
by way of Akkam's Razor
All the blogs that The Hype Machine checks for fresh music.
so little time...

Short to-do list

Download some Tujiko Noriko. Been a long while since I've listened to electronica. I'm thinking I might be ready to uke it. Really.

Commission Taliah Lempert to paint a portrait of mi bikeybianchi. I think I've pointed to T. Lampert's pictures before, but now I met her yesterday at the Flea and I'm thinking, Oh, Yes, Yes of course.

Commission Mehlman to paint a portrait of me and Lori, or just me. He's already said no once before. He said, What if you don't like it, I'd feel terrible. And I'm, like, Dude, what could you do to my face that I haven't done? Gonna try again. (Lori might not want to.)

Just say no to a Christmas uke splurge - even this Richter at Fleamarket Music. (I just got a cramp looking at it again.)

Stumpster's Friday night of theremin love - be there

The man says:

This Friday's ReSiDeNt show promises to be one of the most exotic and entertaining to date:

Michael Hearst (of One Ring Zero and Songs For Ice Cream Trucks) will perform original compositions on theremin and claviola along with fellow musians Ron Caswell and Ben Holmes (both of Slavic Soul Party), and Allyssa Lamb (of Las Rubias Del Norte).

Hallvardur Ásgeirsson will perform music for LEMUR robots featuring Patrick O'Reilly-percussion, Anne Herzog - dorophone, Louise Danoise - cymbal and vocals with videos by Anne Herzog and Emmanuelle Page shot on Super8 camera.

Roy Vanegas will create a melancholy, ambient mix of beats accompanied by violin, mezzo-soprano, two guitars and the GuitarBot.

ReSiDeNt: New Works, New Instruments, New Artists
LEMUR, 461 Third Avenue, Brooklyn
Friday, December 12th
8 pm - 10 pm
$5 at the door
http://lemurbots.org

Bob & Johnny

Gosh! Am I the last kid on the block to know? Right now get over to Aquarium Drunkard and listen to those amazing Bob Dylan / Johnny Cash session recordings. (mp3, downloadable, no drm) Yowza yowza yowza! Saw it first at Boing Boing.

jess tryin' to keep m'hand in...

got big admiration for mr burnett and his works, that Raising Sand album w/Allison Krause and Robert Plant still getting lots of playtime at chez juju, and maybe this weekend's the time mineowndamnedself will loosen the purse strings enough to get T-Bone's latest album, Tooth of Crime. Wee bit of story here on T-Bone's philosophy when it comes to recording, w/additional linkage to other related stories within the item...

y otra vez, after yesterday's stint listening to The World on NPR, got some hot music related linky bit to share, story from yesterday on Spanish artist Buika, and a wee bit more from the NPR site on Concha Buika, and goodgoshallmighty, maybe really loosen up those pursestrings and buy more than one CD.

jessferdahalibut, you might consider bookmarking the NPR music page, lots and lots of worthwhile stuff available there. Experiencing some confusion here and now whilst trying to recall where yourstruly heard or read about Susan Tedeschi's new album, Back to the River, which sounds like something else we be adding to our shopping list. Damn, good thing it be payday...

Later that Same Day: extra added linky bonus from NPR site,
T-Bone Burnett plays DJ, c. 5.15.2008

once tuesday gets past us...

January's gonna seem a long time coming...

re that palin person:
in Mc Cain's own words;
and revisiting a topic we mentioned hereabouts previously,
results from the East Bay Express' S. Palin Song Contest
& the submissions (be they audio, video, whatever...) here

a handful of nuggets of linky goodness...

still enjoying my romance with NPR, this link from PRI's The World program broadcast today, and we want to point ye in the direction of the Global Hit piece;
courtesy that marvel that is MetaFilter: Buy-ology Blue;
Umbrella Today?, by way of Bifurcated Rivets;
lovely slideshow via flickr;
How to Make Fougasse, thanks to C. Corrigan & his Parking Lot;
two words: whiskey river
Otay Spanky!
dat be enuf fa now....

early here on the left coast yet...

here at the j - o - b wit my coffee and donut, that comestible reminding mineowndamnedself of effort by Beth B, another hardworking drone here at nonopress,
donuts for hope...

for some goshdarned crazy reason, great old tune been running constantly in my head since hangin' out the laundry early this Am, my memory of it coming from Frank Sinatra's version, tho' there be plenty of 'em out there, but the song itself, truly one of the great tunes of all time, All or Nothing at All...

some controversy brewing in a town familiar with same,
'Berkeley Big People' making locals go "ugh-ly!"...
in that article is mention of statue on S.F.'s Market St by
Stephen de Staebler, a piece yourstruly has ambled by & admired many a morning on our way to work oncet upon a time;
a picture of 'Angel" available within this page

Holy Boy!
dis seems a lot more like the version of that Sinatra tune me recalls so fondly, Xtra added linky bonus: Frankie Chords!

thank goodness esteban's been picking up the slack...

'cause myowndamnedself been leaving plenty of that to pick up, eh?
pssst, ese Stumpy-dude, juju picked up cool t-shirt for ya the other day, mebbe mail it off to thee this weekend...

miscellaneous linky goodness from hither and yon:
3 day competition for alternative fueled vehicles,
Escape from Berkeley;
via the slacktivist, She doesn't care... & that chunka linky goodness came our way via Akkam's Razor;
print up a lot of these and post them all over your neighborhood in time for Thursday's debate: NOPE;
last up here some linkage of a very local nature,
Hardly Strictly Bluegrass be happenin' this weekend,
and meet Country Joe at C.J.'s Coffee House...

and una cosa mas, becuz ye know we love providing ye chewy chunky linky goodness,
lots & lots lovely live music bits at LiveDaily Sessions

now, in the meantime, and we know it be difficult in these very tryin' times, y'all maintain an even strain...

Shameless promotion: our friend, Joe McGinty

I'm very excited to be opening for electronic music pioneer Jean-Jacques Perrey and his collaborator Dana Countryman. Please check out this show at this exciting new venue!

thanks,

Joe McGinty

Jean-Jacques Perrey made some groundbreaking Moog LPs in the 60s ("Moog Indigo", "The Amazing New Electronic Sound of Jean-Jacques Perrey) on his own and also with Gershon Kingsley ("The In Sound From Way Out". His music has been sampled by The Beastie Boys, Gangstarr, A Tribe Called Quest and many others. Walt Disney used his "Baroque Hoedown" for the Main Street Electrical Parade, and "The Savers" is best known as the theme for TV game show "The Joker's Wild". Perrey was determined to take electronic music out of academia and into pop culture, and is still going stong at 79 years old with a new Perrey/Countryman release "Destination Space". Perrey and Countryman make a rare concert appearance in New York at Le Poisson Rouge on Oct. 1.

Opening the show is Circuit Parade, Joe McGinty's experimental/improvisational electronic pop project. Circuit Parade features Mike McGinnis on woodwinds, Eleanor Norton on cello and Leon Dewan on his homemade analog synthesizers.

Circuit Parade will be joined by Natalie Weiss of Unicornicopia, Dave Amels and thereminist Dorit Chrysler for a special mini-tribute to Jean-Jacques Perrey.

Certainly a concert not to be missed!

Oct. 1, 2008

7 PM

Le Poisson Rouge

158 Bleecker Street between Thompson and Sullivan) NYC

Tickets and info:

http://lepoissonrouge.com/

Perrey and Countryman: http://www.jeanjacquesperrey.com/

Circuit Parade: http://www.myspace.com/circuitparade

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Joe McGinty

http://www.joemcginty.com

http://www.myspace.com/joemcginty

http://www.carouselrecording.com

http://www.loserslounge.com