http://prewarblues.org The Best In Pre-War Blues Tue, 23 Jun 2009 04:51:16 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Let's first start off with life update aka reason blog hasn't been updated. I'm getting married on Friday (and Saturday) and the wedding planning and whatnot has been taking up a lot of my after work time. I also bought a house and moved to Durham, which took up the ... http://prewarblues.org/2009/06/the-puzzling-case-of-im-going-away/ I know that i just post a few Memphis Minnie tracks, but my Mom called me up to tell that the book she's reading quotes Memphis Minnie in one of the chapter intros. The book is The Help by Kathryn Stockett and is about Jackson, Mississippi during the early 1960s ... http://prewarblues.org/2009/04/lean-meat-dont-fry/ I signed on a house last week, hopefully that means I'll be able to unpack all my blues cds finally after their 6 or so months of captivity in old wine boxes. Durham will be my new home, I can already feel the Bull City pride sweeping through my consciousness. If ... http://prewarblues.org/2009/04/when-im-dead-give-it-to-my-bearer/ There is a great new blog from France called "Old Weird America" that uses The Anthology as a jumping off point for different variations on the songs presented there. About mid-way down the front page there is a fantastic post compiling 100!!! different versions of John Henry. Pretty essential stuff. ... http://prewarblues.org/2009/03/you-may-cock-your-pistol-in-my-facebut-you-aint-done-nothing-to-me/ I'm late to the game about this but, over at the Encyclopedia Britannica blog the did a nice post compiling difference versions of "Somewhere Over The Rainbow" for the song's 70th anniversary. It's a collection of youtube links rather than downloads which is sad, but I'm a sucker for these ... http://prewarblues.org/2009/03/nolan-welsh/ With the new Wordpress 2.7 is it not possible to use the new Links feature if your blog isn't "widget" enabled? I guess it is time for an update for the 2.7 world, but it seems weird that Links doesn't publish a page anymore. The next line in the song, She's ... http://prewarblues.org/2009/02/shes-got-jordan-river-in-her-hips/ Dark Was The Night is my favorite song of all time, let me first say that. There is a new charity compilation by Red Hot called Dark Was The Night with a bunch of indie bands doing mostly covers , and like all things like this is pretty hit and miss. ... http://prewarblues.org/2009/02/dark-was-the-night/ I haven't been a huge fan of Dust To Digital's newest series "Art of Field Recording, " so I never got around to reviewing the first set in full, but I now have the second set and it's a bit more interesting, though it has all the major faults if ... http://prewarblues.org/2009/02/garfield/ Does Anyone else think that "Add New" is a strange way to phrase the create new post feature in Wordpress 2.7? It took me awhile to figure it what it was referring to, but maybe I'm not into the swing of posting again yet. Speaking of oddly titled things ... http://prewarblues.org/2009/02/warm-wipe-stomp/ Life Update I haven't posted in awhile because I moved to Chapel Hill in November and I don't have a place to put up my CDs yet, so they are all in boxes and it's a pretty big pain to get to them at the moment, Ms. Honey assures me that ... http://prewarblues.org/2009/01/newly-found-blind-blake-tracks/