Snowfall Tally Added

I have resumed the annual winter snowfall tally to the sidebar, just above my Facebook Badge. Snow Season officially runs from December 1 to May 1 here. The last 2 winters have been unbelievable-the 1007-2008 winter saw me get a total of 15 FEET of snow, and last winter I had 10 feet.

Saturday Music Digest

Musical freedom comes at a price

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturecritics/ivanhewett/6711623/Musical-freedom-comes-at-a-price.html

Jimmy Thackery plays workingman's' blues

http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20091204/ENT/912040320/1033/ENT

John Mayall: Unbreakable

http://www.jambase.com/Articles/Story.aspx?storyID=20529

Ravi Shankar gets back to work in India

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/String-Theory/549713/

New Orleans recognized by the Grammy Committee

http://www.examiner.com/x-26614-New-Orleans-Celebrity-Headlines-Examiner~y2009m12d4-New-Orleans-recognized-by-Grammy-committee

Talking X-Mas music with Aaron Neville

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2009/12/inquiring_minds_talking_christ.php

The Caz Brothers have to cancel their Christmas show

http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/Global/story.asp?S=11624668

The Portland Ookelele Project

http://www.portlandmercury.com/portland/Event?oid=1855408

Townes van Zandt Shoe box Poems set to music

http://www.the9513.com/townes-van-zandt-shoebox-poems-set-to-music/

And Bela and the Flecktones do Christmas tunes?

http://www.beyondchron.org/news/index.php?itemid=7615

Friday Music Digest

Linda Ronstadt sighted.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TCy-7VOgBdY

Holidaze in Hicksville

http://www.montereyherald.com/gomagazine/ci_13916137?nclick_check=1

Broadway's Nigerian Fellow

http://www.mg.co.za/article/2009-12-04-broadways-nigerian-fellow

Trio de Paz

http://www.standard.net/topics/features/2009/12/03/trio-da-paz-path-peace

Stupid Music with Steve Brown and the Bailers

http://newsminer.com/pages/ad_details/?id=18677303

49 years later, Paul McCartney plays Hamburg again

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aWD8Gijdr3VE

Muslim punk rock in America

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1942942,00.html?xid=rss-topstories

Galactic starts a new album

http://www.billboard.com/news/galactic-enlists-new-orleans-legends-for-1004050444.story

Preview of this weekend's New Orleans Songwriter Fest

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2009/12/new_orleans_songwriters_festiv.html

And Brah Hugh's 70th birthday never ends

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6942611.ece

Thursday Music Digest

Louisiana Grammy nominees

http://www.theadvertiser.com/article/20091203/NEWS01/912030324

Ringo has a new video out

www.ringostarr.com/

Red beans on a wreath

http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/lansing/article-3732-red-beans-on-a-wreath.html

New music from George Winston

http://www.melodika.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=12473&Itemid=50

R.I.P. to folk music scholar Beth Lomax Hawkes

http://elpasoinc.com/readArticleNYT.aspx?guid=ff46db4a-fb42-43a5-abd9-5804d98897a3

Weezer lives

http://leisureblogs.chicagotribune.com/turn_it_up/2009/12/concert-review-weezer-at-the-aragon.html

An auction to benefit the Bob Moog Foundation

http://www.mountainx.com/news/2009/120209buzz4

An all star show in Honolulu

http://honoluluweekly.com/calendar/social-lite/2009/12/keeping-it-rell/

A brief history of the ookelele

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2009/12/02/2009-12-02_tiny_but_good_enough_for_a_king_a_brief_history_of_the_ukulele_as_played_by_elvi.html

And Sarah's got soul

http://www.newhavenadvocate.com/article.cfm?aid=15691

Wednesday Music Digest

Uncle Tom is Gabbin

http://www.midweek.com/content/columns/utg/

And he also has a new album out!

http://www.mele.com/music/artist/buddy+fo/tom+moffatt+50+years+of+music+in+hawaii+(11-23-2009)/

A bigger, bolder Lennon tribute

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/a-bigger-bolder-lennon-tribute-show/

BB King rocks on

http://www.theorion.com/entertainment/king-of-blues-still-reigns-1.947550

Latest Dark Horse doings

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i8a9b19a7752dca15bd2c7ad9f4d5aa8c

Songs about the Who-Dats flood the internet

http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i8a9b19a7752dca15bd2c7ad9f4d5aa8c

Beck meets Clapton

http://www.spinner.com/2009/12/01/eric-clapton-and-jeff-beck-announce-north-american-concerts/

The Chord and the Fawn

http://www.citypages.com/2009-12-02/music/the-chord-the-fawn-celebrate-their-ukulele-love-on-m-i-s-s-i-s-s-i-p-p-i/

Hugh Masekela runs out of gas

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8390000/8390031.stm

And an interview with Randy Newman

http://www.iesb.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=7847:interview-randy-newman-and-the-princess-and-the-frog-&catid=44:interviews&Itemid=172

December 1st Music Digest

Crimes of the Mind

http://www.jambands.com/news/2009/11/30/crimes-of-the-mind-for-phish

Upcoming holiday music around the 50th State

http://www.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/20091130/GETPUBLISHED/911300374

JazzFest goes to Churchill Gowns

http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory?id=9208866

Jazz by the Bay (of Bengal, that is!)

http://beta.thehindu.com/arts/music/article57406.ece

Brah Hugh heads to London

http://www.sowetan.co.za/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=1093227

R.I.P. Tiny

http://www.hollywoodoutbreak.com/2009/11/30/on-this-day-in-show-biz-tiny-tim-dies/

Los Straitjackets go Christmas

http://www.kentucky.com/712/story/1040085.html

Wayne Krantz-Enthralling the strings of a guitar

http://living.oneindia.in/celebrity/music/2009/wayne-krantz-301109.html

Remembering George in Hollywood

http://ozarksfirst.com/content/fulltext/?cid=210751

And a "dangerously funny" pair of brothers who were born on Governors Island

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120833822

Facebook Reminder

Click on my Facebook badge for my FB page, which has a lot of musicians and other assorted mixed nuts.

Newly added FB musical friends include It's a Beautiful Day's Linda LaFlamme, New Orleans blues singer Mem Shannon, and original Asleep at the Wheel vocalist Chris O'Connell!

Sunday Music Digest

Tin Huey!

http://blogcritics.org/music/article/music-review-tin-huey-before-obscurity/

SS Wilbury?

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/harrison-dreamed-of-wilburys-ship-tour_1123952

"Pops: A Life of Louis Armstrong"

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-louis-armstrong29-2009nov29,0,3765581.story

Guitar man Gnarly Charlie

http://knac.com/article.asp?ArticleID=7308

Ookelele gets some respect

http://www.petaluma360.com/article/20091127/COMMUNITY/911269993/1377/COMMUNITY0304?Title=Ukulele-gets-some-respect

Chamber rhythms meet Stupid Music!

http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/local/local_story_332225117.html

A new Monk bio

http://www.kansascity.com/238/story/1594247.html

JoJazz 2009 opens in Cuba

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=46104

Chuck Brown VS The Grinch?

http://watching-tv.ew.com/2009/11/28/charlie-brown-christmas-the-grinch/

And John Oates takes on 60s folk music

http://www.spinner.com/2009/11/28/john-oates-takes-on-60s-folk/

Saturday Music Digest

Paul McCartney still feels FAB

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/paul-mccartney-still-feels-fab_1123880

Stones in Baltimore

http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/entertainment/midnight_sun/blog/2009/11/rolling_stones_in_baltimore_pa.html

Ronnie Montrose returns

http://www.modbee.com/scene/story/949545.html

Laughing Out Loud

http://www.southbendtribune.com/article/20091127/BLOGS33/911279993

Louis Armstrong in the Jazz Age

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704611404574556151322243772.html

The greatest guitar riff?

http://blog.taragana.com/e/2009/11/27/hendrixs-voodoo-child-voted-greatest-guitar-riff-64977/

A bankrupt DJ gets 1 million pounds for his record collection

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2009/11/27/bankrupt-dj-mike-read-sells-off-record-collection-for-1m-86908-21854222/

Concert for George

http://www.beatlesnews.com/blog/the-beatles/200911271312/george-harrison-8th-anniversary-memorial-tribute.html

6 Generations of the Blues

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/front-row-music-television-presents-six-generations-of-the-blues-mississippi-to-chicago-national-premier-75985617.html

And catching up with Pinetop Perkins

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iCWjd52QPFfO6WvnAWMoSNpxIUkAD9C7OGIO3

Friday Music Digest

Winter Wonderland

http://elpasoinc.com/readArticleNYT.aspx?guid=e5e6bbbb-a57e-498c-a391-42cd45e52e80

The 12 Days of Hawaiian Holiday Music

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2009/11/27/alohafriday112709.DTL

Rounding up some more box sets

http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2009-11-27-megaboxes27_ST_N.htm

Music for Airports

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chicago/chi-music-tracker-city-zonenov27,0,6104510.story

A soap opera star makes a new album-with Hugh Masekela!

http://tonight.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=5264138&fSectionId=431&fSetId=251

A guitar god with taste

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=870302&category=ARTS

Preview of the NOMAD music fest

http://www.sheboyganpress.com/article/20091126/SHE04/911260399/1097

New music from the Agnostic Mountain Gospel Choir

http://hangout.altsounds.com/reviews/113035-agnostic-mountain-gospel-choir-ten-thousand-album.html

Some new and old holiday music out on CD

http://www.wvobserver.com/?p=1274

And yet more Airport music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ewp7TNIwewY

Turkey Day Music Digest!

Planet Drum

http://honoluluweekly.com/hotpicks/2009/11/planet-drum/

The return of Sade

http://www.examiner.com/x-27510-NY-HipHop-Scene-Examiner~y2009m11d25-Sade-returns-with-a-new-album-in-2010

The ultimate Miles Davis box

http://www.sonyinsider.com/2009/11/25/the-ultimate-music-gift-for-the-holidays-the-miles-davis-the-complete-columbia-album-collection/

The decade in review-Jazz and the Mash-Up

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2009/11/the_decade_in_review_floratone.html

Lonesome, ornery, and mean

http://blogs.houstonpress.com/rocks/2009/11/lonesome_onry_and_mean_hank_sn.php

What's shaking with the Nashville Jazz Orchestra

http://www.nashvillescene.com/2009-11-26/music/nashville-jazz-orchestra-celebrates-repertory-in-new-weekly-gig-at-the-french-quarter-cafe/

E Polyphony: Holiday listening

http://www.wvobserver.com/?p=1274

Noir guitar

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/dining/70564697.html?elr=KArks:DCiUo3PD:3D_V_qD3L:c7cQKUiD3aPc:_Yyc:aUU

2010 Grammy nomination preview

http://www.billboard.com/features/gp-1004044467.story

Interesting George Harrison story

http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/harrison-too-humble-to-front-the-heartbreakers_1123701

And some great Turkey Day music

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYlCt92nTXE

Oops!

Forgot that this is Wednesday...click on the post title for Uncle Tom Moffatt's weekly talk-story!

Wednesday Music Digest

Great food and African music at a new NYC restaurant

http://www.timeslive.co.za/lifestyle/article208560.ece

Using eBay to find...Klezmer music

http://www.thejewishadvocate.com/news/2009/1127/top_news/002.html

The end of music?

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/the-end-of-music/

Jazz for a good cause in Seattle

http://blog.seattlepi.com/seattlehumane/archives/186198.asp?from=blog_last3

Bata Drum workshops in New York City

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=45958

A new Elvis release

http://www.musicbox-online.com/review/11192009/elvis-memphis.html

A Quebe Sisters sighting

http://www.c-bstatesman.com/news/2009-11-26/Historical/BOB_BOWMANS_EAST_TEXAS.html

Jake heads to Buckingham Palace

http://www.kitv.com/entertainment/21717122/detail.html

An Austin musician gets 31 years

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/6736563.html

And 20 indirect Beatles memories

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/feature/116633-in-my-own-life-20-indirect-beatle-memories/

Tuesday Music Digest

A re-hash of Sunday night's AMA Awards

http://www.singersroom.com/news/4802/Michael-Jackson-Scores-Historic-American-Music-Award-Win

Talk story with Jack Bruce

http://blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2009/11/23/jack-bruce-on-his-music-if-i-don%E2%80%99t-play-i-become-a-beast/

Too marvelous for words

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/arts/music/23pops.html?_r=1

A new festival: West Coast, Left Coast

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/11/terry-riley-launches-west-coast-left-coast-.html

"Strawberry Fields Forever" on...ookelele?

http://blogcritics.org/music/article/listening-to-the-beatles-strawberry-fields/

Countdown of classic guitar riffs

http://www.musicradar.com/news/guitars/the-top-50-guitar-riffs-of-all-time-50-26-227084

Mama Africa

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2009/nov/23/mama-africa-review

Sirius-XM Radio have special holiday music

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sirius-xm-radio-to-celebrate-thanksgiving-with-special-music-programming-across-its-commercial-free-music-channels-71597512.html

New boxed sets

http://blog.taragana.com/e/2009/11/23/acdc-miles-davis-kick-off-box-set-season-also-releases-from-michael-jackson-def-jam-more-63625/

And Stupid Music in Tulsa

http://www.gtrnews.com/greater-tulsa-reporter/4550/grady-nichols-earl-clark-to-bring-in-new-year

Monday Music Digest

50 years of Motown

http://www.thedailymaverick.co.za/article/2009-11-22-Motown-Fifty-years-of-life-rhythm-soul

A church that's a musical sanctuary

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/howard/bal-howardneighbors1122,0,5766368.story

Music, Revolution, and the 60s

http://www.greenleft.org.au/2009/819/42102

Playing "Guitar Hero" in Iraq with the Pittsburgh Steelers

http://www.wpxi.com/news/21679260/detail.html

Daltrey gets testy with a fan

http://www.spinner.com/2009/11/21/roger-daltrey/

Hot Club!

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/arts/stories/2009/11/23/review_hot_club_of_cowtown.html?sid=101

Music Review: Steve Grossman in NYC

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/23/arts/music/23gross.html?_r=1

"Fela" opening on Broadway

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/music/2009/11/22/2009-11-22_fela_kuti_as_broadway_musical_fela_set_to_open_everything_you_need_to_know_of_af.html

Los in Indy

http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=72222

And remembering rock's early days with New York's version of Dick Clark, Clay Cole

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20091121/ARTICLES/911209982/1177?Title=Former-teen-dance-party-host-recalls-rock-s-early-days

11/22 Music Digest

A book featuring slack-key guitar wins a national award

http://www.hawaii247.org/2009/11/20/naupaka-wins-national-book-award/

Ringo hires his brother in law to play guitar on his new album

http://undercover.com.au/News-Story.aspx?id=9548_Ringo_Starr_Gives_Brother-In-Law_Work_On_His_Next_Album

Ferriday gets a Blues Trail marker

http://www.natchezdemocrat.com/news/2009/nov/21/miss-blues-trail-marker-going-ferriday/

A new Tom Petty set

http://www.gainesville.com/article/20091121/ARTICLES/911199911/1006/NEWS

The first anthology from the late "Deep Blues" writer Robert Palmer

http://www.rollingstone.com/rockdaily/index.php/2009/11/20/first-anthology-for-deep-blues-author-robert-palmer/

A new State Guitar for New Mexico

http://www.krqe.com/dpp/news/business/legendary-makers-crafting-state-guitar

The history of jazz is more than a primer

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/11/22/this_history_of_jazz_is_more_a_primer_on_how_to_listen_to_it/

Too many Miles?

http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2247125

Be a DJ on your iPhone

http://news.cnet.com/8301-13526_3-10402277-27.html

And CDs of the week from Australia

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/cds-of-the-week/story-e6frg8po-1225798671852

Saturday Music Digest

Happy 69th to Malcolm John Rebennack Jr., better know as Dr. John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NzbfWTcoE6c

Preview of the imminent Kaua'i Slack Key Guitar Festival

http://www.kauaiworld.com/articles/2009/11/20/news/kauai_news/doc4b064c8415da6107786555.txt

The other Ringo

http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_13825919

Dion sighting

http://www.northjersey.com/arts_entertainment/70597587.html

Sitar Hero, Hendrix, and the 5th Beatle

http://www.wired.com/gamelife/2009/11/sgt-peppers-dlc/

Holiday music in New Orleans

http://www.nola.com/movies/index.ssf/2009/11/post_29.html

Bonnaroo 2010

http://www.nola.com/music/index.ssf/2009/11/bonnaroo_reveals_dates_for_201.html

Gibson intros a new 1952 Les Paul tribute guitar

http://www.gibson.com/en-us/Lifestyle/Features/les-paul-tribute-guitar-1120/

A Stupid Music band loses a copyright battle?

http://www.echo-news.co.uk/news/4747928.Band_loses_name_battle_in_showdown_with_bank/

And the Jazz Audience Initiatives Project

http://www.allaboutjazz.com/php/news.php?id=45788

Friday Music Digest

A memorial service for NRBQ's Steve Ferguson

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20091120/SCENE04/911200362/1011/SCENE/Calendar+%7C+Concerts

Tribute to Johnny Mercer

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/arts/music/20mercer.html?_r=1

The future of jazz standards

http://www.npr.org/blogs/ablogsupreme/2009/11/johnny_mercer_and_the_future_of_jazz_standards.html

A Double celebration in Hawai'i

http://www.starbulletin.com/features/20091120_A_double_celebration.html

What critics are listening to

http://rocnow.com/article/living/200991119044

Piano Man

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/11/18/f-paul-shaffer-memoir.html

More on the illegal wood and Gibson Guitars

http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2009/11/16/daily25.html

John Fogerty sighting

http://blog.cmt.com/2009-11-19/john-fogertys-determination-pays-off-on-guitar/

Nowhere Boy?

http://www.antimusic.com/news/09/nov/19John_Lennons_Nowhere_Boy_Soundtrack_Announced.shtml

And Words and Music in New Orleans

http://www.neworleans.com/festivals/other-festivals/53647-1119-1122-words-a-music-a-literary-feast-in-new-orleans.html

Thursday Music Digest

Taj sighted

http://wvgazette.com/Entertainment/thegazz/200911181153

Junior Sinatra speaks out

http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=11531465

Manhattan Transfer does Uncle Chickie

http://www.voanews.com/english/Entertainment/2009-11-18-voa17.cfm

Size matters

http://neworleans.broadwayworld.com/article/Ben_Lerman_comes_to_Le_Chat_Noir_To_Celebrate_His_New_EP_Size_Matters_20091118

Jake goes surfing in San Diego

http://www.nctimes.com/entertainment/music/article_471b8d84-220f-5613-99b8-c3ed6a2966e5.html

John Mayer talks story

http://www.popeater.com/2009/11/18/john-mayer-reveals-stories-behind-battle-studies/

The Royal family of the guitar-meet the Romeros

http://www.nctimes.com/entertainment/music/article_abc996ac-40c3-5d03-8960-cb78f5161178.html

The Wailers do the Big Easy

http://www.neworleans.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=264166&catid=396&Itemid=2322

Epiphone Guitars-an overview

http://www.spinner.com/2009/11/16/epiphone-guitars-an-overview/

And a Starr reborn?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pandora/pandora-a-starr-reborn-hopes-fans-keep-the-faith-1822414.html

Thursday Music Digest

Taj sighted

http://wvgazette.com/Entertainment/thegazz/200911181153

Junior Sinatra speaks out

http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=11531465

Manhattan Transfer does Uncle Chickie

http://www.voanews.com/english/Entertainment/2009-11-18-voa17.cfm

Size matters

http://neworleans.broadwayworld.com/article/Ben_Lerman_comes_to_Le_Chat_Noir_To_Celebrate_His_New_EP_Size_Matters_20091118

Jake goes surfing in San Diego

http://www.nctimes.com/entertainment/music/article_471b8d84-220f-5613-99b8-c3ed6a2966e5.html

John Mayer talks story

http://www.popeater.com/2009/11/18/john-mayer-reveals-stories-behind-battle-studies/

The Royal family of the guitar-meet the Romeros

http://www.nctimes.com/entertainment/music/article_abc996ac-40c3-5d03-8960-cb78f5161178.html

The Wailers do the Big Easy

http://www.neworleans.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=264166&catid=396&Itemid=2322

Epiphone Guitars-an overview

http://www.spinner.com/2009/11/16/epiphone-guitars-an-overview/

And a Starr reborn?

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/pandora/pandora-a-starr-reborn-hopes-fans-keep-the-faith-1822414.html