Comments on: Your Favorite Little Podcast: Episode Seven http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/ Trash, Treasure, Oddities, Obsessions and Obligations Mon, 13 Oct 2008 20:07:14 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14518 Derrick Bostrom Fri, 07 Sep 2007 23:06:43 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14518 I agree -- if it weren't for the long hours I put in digging through dusty crates, I wouldn't have found most of the stuff in my George Jones collection. There has never been an acceptable reissue program for him. I agree — if it weren’t for the long hours I put in digging through dusty crates, I wouldn’t have found most of the stuff in my George Jones collection. There has never been an acceptable reissue program for him.

]]> By: Pete http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14516 Pete Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:46:28 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14516 That's great--it's quite a fun song, and catchy too! It is frustrating how little of George Jone's material is in print. His Musicor sides are tough to find, and the UA stuff is not much easier. Mercury and Ace had some excellent compilations of his Starday/Mercury material, but those have gone out-of-print too. I wish someone like Bear Family would come along and release some "complete" Jones box sets. It's crazy that such a major artist (someone Frank Sinatra once quite credibly referred to as "the world's second best white singer") has been so poorly anthologized. If someone put out "complete" Starday/Mercury, UA, or Musicor box sets, I'd buy them in a second. That’s great–it’s quite a fun song, and catchy too!

It is frustrating how little of George Jone’s material is in print. His Musicor sides are tough to find, and the UA stuff is not much easier. Mercury and Ace had some excellent compilations of his Starday/Mercury material, but those have gone out-of-print too. I wish someone like Bear Family would come along and release some “complete” Jones box sets. It’s crazy that such a major artist (someone Frank Sinatra once quite credibly referred to as “the world’s second best white singer”) has been so poorly anthologized. If someone put out “complete” Starday/Mercury, UA, or Musicor box sets, I’d buy them in a second.

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14511 Derrick Bostrom Fri, 07 Sep 2007 00:18:42 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14511 Ah yes: "Eskimo Pie" is in fact one of the songs we used to cover! Ah yes: “Eskimo Pie” is in fact one of the songs we used to cover!

]]> By: Pete http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14509 Pete Thu, 06 Sep 2007 21:16:59 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14509 The most remarkable thing WFMU survived was the 1995 closing of Upsala College. I used to listen to the station all the time when I lived in New York, and check their website regularly now. I am a big fan of George Jones. A while back I posted <a href="http://floweringtoilet.blogspot.com/2006/08/george-jones_14.html" rel="nofollow">"Eskimo Pie"</a>, on my blog, a song written and performed by Jones that you might find interesting. Definitely one of his stranger novelty numbers, it was released on Mercury/Starday in 1958, but never shows up on Jones anthologies. The most remarkable thing WFMU survived was the 1995 closing of Upsala College. I used to listen to the station all the time when I lived in New York, and check their website regularly now.

I am a big fan of George Jones. A while back I posted “Eskimo Pie”, on my blog, a song written and performed by Jones that you might find interesting. Definitely one of his stranger novelty numbers, it was released on Mercury/Starday in 1958, but never shows up on Jones anthologies.

]]> By: Derrick Bostrom http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14501 Derrick Bostrom Thu, 06 Sep 2007 00:15:42 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14501 Don't mention it. Thanks for Death Week! Don’t mention it. Thanks for Death Week!

]]> By: Ted Barron http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14496 Ted Barron Wed, 05 Sep 2007 15:51:36 +0000 http://derrickbostrom.com/bostrom/2007/09/04/your-favorite-little-podcast-episode-seven/#comment-14496 Derrick, thanks for the link. I'm honored, since the Meat Puppets were one of my favorite bands during those post hardcore SST days- the golden age of indie-American punk rock. I was kinda blown away when I found that you guys had recorded that GJ song when the reissue of Out My Way came out, I guess we all listened to the same records. There were a lot fewer choices back then. Ted Derrick, thanks for the link. I’m honored, since the Meat Puppets were one of my favorite bands during those post hardcore SST days- the golden age of indie-American punk rock. I was kinda blown away when I found that you guys had recorded that GJ song when the reissue of Out My Way came out, I guess we all listened to the same records. There were a lot fewer choices back then.

Ted

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