 The reappearance of a sign to say something's going on is for everyone's benefit.
Extra source references or Amazon France and UK album links have been added to several dozen entries and I've substantially revised a couple of others. What's good for a home database I'm working on -- just connecting stories about people on the log to their music on my big, fairly new external hard drive -- should also make navigation easier for you.
This is nearly finished.
You'll know when it is since there'll be more new stuff. Other pointers to longer-term plans that disappeared without explanation, particularly broadcasts that were working fine in tests, will be back once I've thought through a better idea.
Cindy's timing in telling me of Womenfolk in her comment on Saturday's entry was near telepathy and I'm grateful.
Nowadays I don't find it odd -- on that same "small minds seldom differ" front -- to see that in his last entry to date, Robbie McCown, who's done wonderful work since 2004, briefly mentioned Mississippi's Garrison Starr (also a pretty, blue-eyed gal who keeps her blonde hair short but not the apple lady). In starting some ''High Notes, Vol. 1', Womenfolk gives news of an upcoming album. At the weekend I was enjoying Garrison's 2002 release, 'Songs from Take Off to Landing' among some high-flying listening.
Reading Robbie took me on to 'Netting some quality music', a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel article last month by Jim Higgins, He asks:
"In today's decentralized music universe, how can you hear new stuff that you might like to listen to?
This is definitely an essay question, and if you were trying to answer it completely, you'd likely need more than one blue book.
Publications that describe and review music abound, in print and online, but it can take some effort to discern what the heck the writers are talking about: Anyone for screamo? Sadcore? Acid techno?"
Jim answers that in a good story about MP3 blogs -- all American as far as I can tell -- that will interest anybody who shares his pleasure in "ones that delight in making and breaking discoveries".
In that mouth-watering respect, roll on my retirement!
I'm still incubating ideas about where this place is going between now and then but should say little more about this work in hand behind the scenes, except that some trends won't change. Others will.
What I write has changed my music-buying pattern. For instance, today I've been listening to the first, often funny half of Jennifer Terran's 'Live From Painted Cave' (CD Baby)', which ate up the very last of the month's music budget. I got it from the iTMS, but shall persist in linking to Amazon Fr, Amazon UK and CD Baby -- in that order -- if not directly to the purchase page on musicians' sites, rather than Amazon US, since I know where many of my readers are.
I shan't mention Terran again until I've had an overview of her career. That's become an established pattern for women whenever I'm singularly struck by their music. This approach has slowed me down in reinstating the last of the series of entries that vanished, but will I hope make for more insightful writing once they are back.
Any time I can break a discovery it shall be done and any time you find a super place such as Robbie's, please let me know, particularly if it's a candidate for the "siren islands", since I'd like to build up a repertory of other music sites on women, though I work in a different way from most.
That's it regarding my plans -- you'll have realised they entail long entries, unlike most such weblogs, and probably less frequent ones -- since nothing could bore you more than further announcements of where I'm going and why.
On reading that length warning many people will sigh and forever disappear, I know.
You have numerous convincing excuses to do so in the blogroll! But there is a why. There are several reasons why, which I've been meditating on for weeks. The seeds were planted by unanticipated responses to what's done so far, which make me rejoice.
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