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>>>I see by your tagline that you like Tom Waits. Too bad he didn't go into music!<g>
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>>Hey, there are a lot of musicians - we need poets too <s>
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>>How 'bout Ry Cooder, Bela Fleck ( and the Flecktones ), Tony Rice, Daryl Anger, Mike Marshall, Mark O'Conner, Papa John Creach, Peter Rowan, Leon Redbone, Stephan Grossman, Reverand Gary Davis, Dr. John (only the acoustic stuff), Professor Longhair, Charlie Daniels, David Grisman, Jerry Garcia ( playing duets with Grisman and with Old and In the Way ), Duck Baker, Leo Kottke, Steven Stills, Ronnie Hawk, The Band (especially Robbie Robertson) ...
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>>(that's one folder on the ipod ... )
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>I saw Leon Redbone live a couple of months ago. He was great. And his piano player (his only accompanist) was superb - he played a solo honky-tonk that was incredible.
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>That's Ronnie Hawkins, and for my taste, 'The Band' is about the best rock group that ever was.

Yeah, but Ronnie Hawkins was The Hawk.

I think I may have told you I was, I swear to God, at the Last Waltz. Saw Scorcese running around with the camera. (can't find myself on DVD) Bill Graham put on Thanksgiving dinner for 2000. It was even better than it looks in the movie (or I'm a lot straighter now when I watch the movie ) Winterland was one of the best venues ever. Wooden floor over the old ice rink would vibrate with the wall of speakers. Ever concert had a contingent of people blown out on reds lying on the floor in front of the speakers. We'd never heard of mosh pits, but if you ever stood in front of the stage at winterland ( did a number of Grateful Dead concerts there as well ) you were familiar with audience as a full body contact experience.