Monday Music Digest

Keeping New Orleans music alive (hint, go there)

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TRAVEL/getaways/12/22/new.orleans.music/

Best American music CDs of 2008

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a3xBmtPpcnjo&refer=muse

An old Jaco Pastorious group surfaces-pre Weather Report

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/article.php?id=31395

Stupid Music from fiddler Liesel Schoenberger

http://www.semissourian.com/article/20081222/NEWS01/712229963

And a hand-carved fish guitar?

http://www.southtownstar.com/neighborhoodstar/tinleypark/1340694,122108tpbeatcolumn.article