So I'm watching the Cards and listening to some newly acquired tuneage. Ignorant schmuck that it might make me, I hadn't actually heard much of Miles Davis' older stuff (I have some of the expiremental/fusion stuff) and had heard smatterings of Ella Fitzgerald, but at the urging/recommendation of one Ms Kari Wahlgren, I took advantage of my iTunes account and picked some up and tis freakishly good. So good I feel embarassed for not having picked it up sooner. So let me say thanks Kari for settin' me straight.

I also picked up the just released Johnny Cash album. It's a great album. Part of it is because for me it's impossible to divorce the music from the mythology of Johnny Cash, but there are parts that are nothing short of heartbreaking. His take on Gordon Lightfoot (yes, that Gordon Lightfoot) is really sad and poignant to me. I liked "The Man Comes Around" but "Hundred Highways" seems much more cohesive and a fitting tribute to Cash's own reflections on his life and mortality. Again, it could be me just reading Cash into my perception of him, but good stuff.

Anyway, hope everyone had a kickin' 4th. Here's the last video from the man himself.



-Joe