Beautiful morning in REO Town.

Vinyl is all the rage these days, and it’s a lot of fun seeing young folks get the record collecting bug. Last year I bought a new turntable and have enjoyed picking up and listening to some records again. But what is really interesting is that this vinyl revival along with easy access to streaming music has caused the price of used CD’s to tank! There are such great deals to be had everywhere! I picked up the 5-disc Temptations box set ‘Emperors Of Soul’ for $17.99. This has 6 + hours of music with all the original single mixes, a great book with an essay by Nelson George, beautiful photographs, discography, and more. Go find some deals!

Artists file a lawsuit over a 2008 fire (The Day The Music Burned) that destroyed thousands of master recordings. Universal lied about the losses and received insurance claims totaling over 150 million dollars. The suit, filed by Soundgarden, Hole, Steve Earle, and representatives of Tupak Shakur and Tom Petty, seeks to recover half of any settlement proceeds.

Billboard

LA Times

Variety

NY Times

Court Filing

Here is the one I am familiar with @rnv

If I ever get a tattoo, it’ll be this:

I don’t recall ever seeing this rare variation of the Misterioso album cover.

I’ve been slowly acquiring all 20 of the 1999 Toshiba-EMI ‘The Blue Note Years’ series for the past several years. These paper sleeve editions are absolutely beautiful, with stunning Frank Wolff photos. I finally found the last 3 which are on the way from Japan thanks to buyee.jp.

Grant Green

Hank Mobley

Herbie Hancock

Sonny Clark

I am considering applying to the online Masters of Applied Data Science program at The University of Michigan. It starts in the Fall of 2019. It can be completed full or part time in one to three years. [https://www.si.umich.edu/programs/master-applied-data-science-online]

Handy Apple support pages.

• How to reinstall macOS from macOS Recovery
• How to create a bootable installer for macOS

Spotify Fail No. 637

The name of the album is “History Never Repeats”, but only one song in unavailable…

Classic Blue Note haul arrived today.

I don’t see enough of these here in Tennessee as I should.

I’ve been looking for this set for over 20 years. Finally found one!!

20 years ago. Mr. Dye, the computer guy, teaching K-8 students computer skills at Cason Lane Academy. Look at all of the brand new Bondi Blue iMacs!

Piya Tu Ab To Aaja open.spotify.com/track/7l8…

Ukelulu (Google photos offers up this edit calling it Color POP! They missed coloring in her index finger and half of the uke neck.)

Screenshot of the iTunes Music Store circa 2003 (Windows version)

Last year I started running a Plex server at home to handle the majority of my music streaming needs. I also resumed scrobbling to last.fm. It’s very easy to set up in Plex. I have had my Spotify account hooked up to the service for a couple of years, now

Turns out that my musical tastes haven’t changed very much, but I really am enjoying tracking my listening habits once again.

Here are my top 15 artists scrobbled over the past 2 years according to Last.fm

1. Andrew Hill
2. The Beatles
3. Miles Davis
4. Thelonious Monk
5. Sam & Dave
6. John Lee Hooker
7. Bobby Hutcherson
8. Ryan Adams
9. Whiskeytown
10. Fleet Foxes
11. Woody Shaw
12. Wilco
13. John Coltrane
14. Steve Earle
15. Little Walter

Oh F this noise.

“Shit.”

Rest in peace, Queen of Soul.

🥑 🥚 🍞 and ☕️

Strike Two, Spotify. Why is this missing?

www.discogs.com/Funkadeli…

I know it’s probably because of a licensing deal gone wrong, or something, but if I can’t pull up the original version of ‘(Not Just) Knee Deep’, what’s the point?

I am getting more and more frustrated with Spotify lately. Music that I want to hear has disappeared or is just not there.

Example number one: (https://www.discogs.com/Captain-Beefheart-His-Magic-Band-Trout-Mask-Replica/master/463963)

All the lonely routers, Where do they all come from? All the lonely routers, where do they all belong? Ahhhhhh look at all the lonely routers.