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Delta Boogie Newsletter-Gamerplus News - November 2024 - Blues Fest Reprise - The Dragon's Egg - Embedding Mastodon Threads

Music

On September 29 we all showed up at the Craighead Forest Bandshell for Blues Fest and there was no electricity. Fortunately, I had my JBL Eon One Compact to use with Bebop Beatniks and it has batteries.

We ran the whole day one that amp. After Bebop Beatniks we heard The Spencer Brothers and Doug Butler. All the performances were great. I'm already playing some of the songs on Something Blue.

Gaming

I wrote a TTRPG called The Dragon's Egg.

At noon today I'm going to Library Game Day at the Jonesboro Public Library, which is hosted every month by NEA Gamers Guild. I'm going to play some RPGs and I may get to play test The Dragon's Egg.

I wrote a program called Embedding Mastodon Threads that makes it easy to embed a conversation on Mastodon in your blog or website. I had some help. I want to thank.

@jeff@soapbox.hackdefendr.com @conniptions@mastodon.social @EcksDy@techtoots.com @malin@dice.camp

These are their Mastodon addresses. They helped me, on Mastodon, to write an addon program for Mastodon. I write about the whole experience here.

More here.

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Burnside & Kimbrough

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Josh Parks Playing Part Time Love

From The Archives Of Something Blue - 2024-11-03

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear an Arkansas Blues Man play a song about relationship problems.

I went to the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena Arkansas, in October, 2024, camping for the first time since before the pandemic. My friend Brent and I went down to the main stage on Wednesday night and we saw Josh Parks jamming the blues.

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Elmore James with Homesick James, and J.T. Brown. Disc Jockey Big Bill Hill is also shown, photo by George Adkins.

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Big Bill Broonzy

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Pharoah Sanders & John Coltrane

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Listening Repertoire

I have developed this concept of listening repertoire, similar to practice repertoire or performance repertoire, but for listening.

Back in the olden days (also known as the sixties) when I got my paycheck I would head to the record store and buy an album. On a good week two but anything more than that would cut into my groceries and rent.

When I got home that record would hit the turntable and if I liked it as much as I thought I would it lived there for a while, at least several days before I would swap in the album I bought last week or one I had listened to for years.

But for that week and much of the next I'd listen to it a lot. When guests came over I would play it for them. If we had a party it would be playing in the background.

Now, jump to the present day, where I can listen to anything I want to, anytime. I rarely listen to an album more than once. I love live performances and I watch them on Youtube or listen to them on the Live Music Archive, usually once.

I think we can all relate to this experience. There's so much music and so little time it's hard to give any song or album the time it deserves. The in depth active listen, that only comes with repeated listening, sometimes in the background, sometimes sitting in your sweet spot, focusing only on the songs.

This is where listening repertoire comes in to save the day.

When I find a new (to me) album that I really like, I load it into my player and set it to loop. I pause it when I want and I start it again when I want, from the pause point or from track 1. But I let it live there, in my player, for a while, to get that deep understanding that only comes with repeated listening.

After a few days I'll swap it out for another album in my listening repertoire, for an old favorite, or for something new. But it remains at the top of my listening repertoire and I still put it on loop occasionally and just let it play.

When, after a week (or two) I find another album that I really like, it replaces the old with the new at the top of my listening repertoire.

Occasionally, I will scan through my listening repertoire and remove albums I'm no longer listening to frequently. Since they have been through my listening repertoire I know them well and I will certainly return to them in the future.

Some albums remain in my listening repertoire for a long time. I continue listening to them once or twice a month. They're just that good.

And yes, I keep a list of my listening repertoire. I add new albums at the top of the list. This formalization keeps me from forgetting an album too soon. Everybody's busy. Everybody forgets stuff. Removing an album from my listening repertoire is a decision I make, not something that accidentally happens.

You may have noticed that I am focusing on albums, not songs or playlists. I believe that the album is the musician's long form statement just like the song is their short form statement. An album has variety and depth so I can listen to it for several days. You do what works for you. I'm old. I like albums.

Here's my current listening repertoire. So it's newest (to the list) at the top. Not best at the top. The fact that Nubya's 5ive remains on the list after several years shows just how much I like it.

Nigel Harpur - Carnival For Little Creatures https://nigelharpur.bandcamp.com/album/carnival-for-little-creatures

Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong - Ella and Louis

John Coltrane - Crescent

ADHD Quartet - ADHD 6 https://adhdiceland.com/

Paul Bley - Fragments

Steve Khan - The Green Field http://www.stevekhan.com/discog18.htm

Nubya Garcia - Nubya's 5ive https://nubyagarcia.bandcamp.com/album/nubyas-5ive

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Delta Boogie Newsletter-Gamerplus News - October 2024 - Blues Fest

Since Blues Fest starts on September 29 I am sending the October newsletter early.

Blues Fest Craighead Forest Bandshell Jonesboro, Arkansas

September 29, 2024

2:00 Bebop Beatniks 3:00 The Spencer Brothers 4:00 Doug Butler

October 6, 2024

2:00 Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians 3:00 Mike Mcleod 4:00 The West Finch Blues Band 5:00 Delta Legends - John Shepherd, Jeremy Burnett, and Hairy Larry 6:00 Anna and the Tanks

I want to thank all the musicians in advance. The best way for you to show your appreciation is to come and enjoy the music.

It's Free!

Take the link above for the rest of the newsletter including a new Bebop Beatniks Video.

Bebop Beatniks playing at the KASU Arkansas Roots Stage at the Beatles At The Ridge Festival in Walnut Ridge, Arkansas.

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Bebop Beatniks - Beatles At The Ridge Festival - September 21, 2024

Bebop Beatniks KASU Arkansas Roots Stage At Beatles Park Beatles At The Ridge Festival Walnut Ridge, Arkansas September 21, 2024

Songs

00:00 01 Low Earth Orbit 09:27 02 Yesterday 15:30 03 Summertime 23:34 04 Georgia 32:20 05 Malaysia

Personnel

Paul Lessard - alto sax Jeremy Jackson - bass Alex Washam - drums Hairy Larry - pianos, vocals

kasu.org bebopbeatniks.com hairylarryland.com

Network With Hairy Larry deltaboogie.net

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KASU Arkansas Roots Stage At Beatles Park On Abbey Road

Beatles At The Ridge Festival Walnut Ridge, Arkansas Saturday Afternoon, September 21

1:00 Bebop Beatniks 2:00 Doug Butler 3:00 The Spencer Brothers 4:00 Mike Mcleod 5:00 Anna and the Tanks

Pictured Mike Mcleod

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Cedell Davis

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John Primer & Bob Corritore/Crawlin’ Kingsnake Wins Blues Blast Music Award, And More

Crawlin’ Kingsnake wins Blues Blast Music Award for Best Traditional Blues Album!

John Primer and Bob Corritore acknowledgments: Thanks to all the voters, the DJs, and the Blues writers! Thanks to the spectacular band (Bob Stroger, Jimi Primetime Smith, Anthony Geraci, and Wes Starr) who added their magic to the album! Thanks Lisa Primer for your support! Thank you to the Rhythm Room! Thanks to Vince Ray for the amazing album art! Thanks to Clarke Rigsby of Tempest Recording, and John Wroble of Porcupine Productions! And thank you to VizzTone Label Group and BratGirl Media! Congratulations to all the nominees and winners!

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Something Blue - Changes

This is Hairy Larry inviting you to enjoy Something Blue every Saturday night at ten. This week we’re featuring the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Neal Francis, and Delta Legends. For more about the show visit the Something Blue website at sbblues.com.

Don’t miss Something Blue, Saturday night at 10:00 PM CST, at kasu.org.

Neal Francis Live at Framily Fest on 2020-09-05 archive.org/details/nealfrancis2020-09-05 www.nealfrancis.com/

The Jimi Hendrix Experience – Live In Maui www.jimihendrix.com/music/music-money-madness-jimi-hendrix-in-maui/

Delta Legends Live at The Fall Ball on 2017-09-30 archive.org/details/hl2017-09-30 deltalegends.com/

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Delta Boogie Newsletter-Gamerplus News - September 2024 - Blues Fest, Beatles Park, and Busking

I have the Blues Fest Schedule

Blues Fest Craighead Forest Bandshell Jonesboro, Arkansas

September 29, 2024

2:00 Bebop Beatniks 3:00 The Spencer Brothers 4:00 Doug Butler

October 6, 2024

2:00 Hairy Larry and The Flying Hungarians 3:00 Mike Mcleod 4:00 The West Finch Blues Band 5:00 Delta Legends - John Shepherd, Jeremy Burnett, and Hairy Larry 6:00 Anna and the Tanks

And the week before Blues Fest.

KASU Arkansas Roots Stage At Beatles Park On Abbey Road Beatles At The Ridge Festival Walnut Ridge, Arkansas Saturday Afternoon, September 21

1:00 Bebop Beatniks 2:00 Doug Butler 3:00 The Spencer Brothers 4:00 Mike Mcleod 5:00 Anna and the Tanks

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DJ Hairy Larry presents Delta Legends Playing All Over Again

Thanks Marty, I've got a great blues song this week performed live at the Fall Ball by Delta Legends. https://sbblues.com/2024/09/04/dj-hairy-larry-presents-delta-legends-playing-all-over-again/ On September 30, 2017 Delta Legends took a road trip down to the Mississippi Hill Country to play at the Fall Ball. We originally booked to busk on Saturday morning but they offered us a slot early Saturday afternoon so we got to play that too. "All Over Again" is a blues standard made famous by B.B. King and Paul Butterfield. It's one of our best songs and inspired by the festival stage we nailed it.

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DJ Hairy Larry Presents Jazz Writers Big Band Playing "Elegy"

From The Archives Of Something Blue 2024-08-25

Thanks Marty, today we're going to hear a Big Band play a composition written by an Arkansas jazz educator.

I went to school at ASU with Joseph Curtis. After he graduated he was band director at Hoxie and Trumann. He's now in Law School in Little Rock.

I think the first time I recorded Joseph was when he was playing in an ASU small group called "Jazztette". Ron Horton wanted me to take some video of him teaching jazz improvisation and I also recorded their concert. I interviewed Dr. Horton and four of the students and produced a documentary, "Jazztette - Teaching Jazz Improvisation". They played an original jazz composition by Joseph Curtis called "Baile de Trece".