Did you meet Greg Brown too? (He's JZ's favorite.)

He was on tour. She said having her first husband on tour with her (he managed her) convinced her that it was a bit too close for comfort.

You'll probably bump up against my email filter, but I'll fix it tomorrow. Gotta go home now. "Home," of course.

Thanks, David. I haven't been there in so long that I'll have to look up in my Gmail account and see if I still have the password somewhere.

Successfully downloaded. Thanks, Hec!

Glad you got to meet Iris D., joe. But the important questions remain: Did you get some good KC bbq? If so, where? If not, why the hell not?

Just popping in to ask tina if she knows Luke Stone.

Luke Stone was entering the Lawrence hippie-ish/jam-band scene (though technically, I don't know that that is the kind of music he plays) right as I was exiting so I've never heard his music but have definitely heard of him.

More from CD Baby:

Multi-instrumentalist and composer Luke Stone has been an active member of the Kansas City/Lawrence music scene for over 9 years. Luke's inherent love for music started with a musical family -- his grandfather attended Juilliard, his grandmother is a professional pianist, and his mother sings with both the Kansas City Lyric Opera and Kansas City Chorale. At age 13, he started playing his mom's guitar, and shortly after began playing drum set, influenced by his peers and bands such as Mahavishnu Orchestra, Weather Report, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, Phish, Herbie Hancock, Jimi Hendrix and many more. In school, Luke studied drum set with Doug Auwarter and played percussion with the marching, symphonic, and jazz bands and later earned a college music scholarship in St. Joseph Missouri. In 1998, eager to put his academic studies into use, Luke moved to Lawrence Kansas to pursue music. Collaborating with local musicians, he founded the Stoneband, which has since found a receptive audience and embarked on small regional tours. With Stoneband, Luke has shared the stage with many prominent musicians, including Widespread Panic, Jazz Mandolin Project, Jacob Fred Jazz Odyssey, Robert Walter's 20th Congress, Schleigho and others. In addition to performing, Luke is also a competent recording engineer. Since 2003, he has self-produced and engineered two solo CD’s of all original compositions which are available via his website. The jazz-funk-fusion sound of both CD’s feature Luke playing all of the instruments with the exception of saxophone, and some keyboard and guitar leads. Visit Stoneband.com for the latest news and info on the music of Luke Stone.

Sounds like you enjoyed ol' KC, Joe.

Saw the new Dresden Dolls album out yesterday.

Does anybody have an opinion on Neko Case's Fox Confessor?

Does anybody have an opinion on Neko Case's Fox Confessor?

I love it. It is so much better than her last solo release - the live album - which I never ever listen to. It's not better than Furnace Room Lullaby, but then again, not much is.

I've heard it four or five times but I heard the whole thing this Sunday at a bar and couldn't believe how great it sounded. For me, for some reason the bar playback usually is the true test of how good a new album is.

In other new release news. The new Bruce Springsteen P Seeger album is getting such great reviews - it makes me very happy. (Anybody read the recent Pete Seeger profile in the New Yorker? I cried through the entire last page.) And iTunes has a new Decemberists EP out today called Picaresqueties. Didn't know about it. I am going to wait a week or so and see if it shows up on emusic (it's been released by Kill Rock Stars, who one guesses are trying to milk everything they can as the D's have moved on to the Big Corporate Label).

Due to boredom and cephalapod talk in Natter which I happened to peek in on, I just watched a video of an OCTOPUS EATING A SHARK. I am forever changed:

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Does anybody have an opinion on Neko Case's Fox Confessor?

I recommended it to Allyson several posts back. Unfortunately, I seem to be on everyone's nitwit filter.

What can folks tell me about The Dresden Dolls. I've met any number of people here who've toured with them and it gave me the impression they were a local band with a lot of friends. But I guess I'm wrong, huh?

And iTunes has a new Decemberists EP out today called Picaresqueties.

Those were the bonus tracks that came on side four of the double LP vinyl version of Picaresque. "Bridges and Balloons", a Joanna Newsom song was additionally on that Believer comp CD of all cover versions.