Table of Contents Archive:

My Favorite CDs of 2009: (in no particular order)

Everything You Love Will Be Taken Away by Slaid Cleaves

Time Stands Still

by Chris Smither

Cotton

by Sam Baker

Glamour Puss

by Tom Catmull and the Clerics

Blood and Candle Smoke

by Tom Russell

What I Know

by Tom Rush

Long Gone

by Houston Marchman

Rattlin' Bones

by Kasey Chambers and Shane Nicholson

Tucson

by L.L. Cooper

Many Moons

by Robyn Landis

The Ghost of Rock & Roll

by Matthew Grimm & the Red Smear

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My Favorite CDs of 2008: (in no particular order)

Mission Door

by Peter Cooper

Trouble in Mind 

Long Way From Tupelo

Traveling

by Steve Poltz

by Mary Gauthier

I Recommend: Sam Baker's  Pretty World and Mercy

I Recommend: Tim Maleeny's new Cape Weathers book, Greasing the Piñata

I Recommend: John Burdett's Bangkok Haunts

I Recommend:Tom Catmull and the Clerics CD, Tom Catmull and the Clerics.

Special Sports

World According to Me: NFL Draft 2007: Team Grades and Brief Analysis

Featured Performer in My All-Time Favorites: Jess Klein

I Abuse the News: Bush Administration Doesn't Hate Lawyers; Just Good Lawyers

compiled by Lenny Woodson

March 6, 2007

I Recommend: James Lee Burke's Pegasus Descending and especially the audio book performed by Will Patton

I Abuse the News: U.S. Revealed as Foremost Supplier of Insurgent Weapons Compiled by Lenny Woodson, February 8, 2007

Featured Performer in My All-Time Favorites: Teddy Thompson

**I can never let the season pass without recommending a special holiday treat of a book:

The Stupidest Angel:
A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror by Christopher Moore; winner of a 2005 Quill Book Award for the best Sci-Fi/Fantasy/Horror book, but it's really just the best laugh-out-loud romp of any book to ever include a slow-witted angel,a talking bat, and a gaggle of brain-sucking zombies .  It's a stocking stuffer!***

I Recommend: Chris Smither has a new CD, Leave the Light On.

I Abuse the News: Bush extends pettiness to rest of world

I Recommend:  Captain/Barricades & Brickwalls by Kasey Chambers

I Abuse the News: Scientists say Harry Potter-like invisibility cloak possible

Featured Performer in My All-Time Favorites: Paul Thorn

I Abuse the News: A Country Within

Not Belarus!  That Would Let US Off the Hook

I Abuse the News: Belarus Calls U.S. Presidential Election Invalid

World According to Me:

The Man Who Ruined Too Much: Could it be Fay Vincent?

I Abuse the News: Bush requests O’Reilly’s “Enemies List” to add to surveillance

I Recommend: FADE TO BLONDE by Max Phillips

Featured Author in My All-Time Favorites: John Burdett

World According to Me:  Complete Victory, Will Dubya’s action figure  have the kung fu grip?

Featured Performer in My All-Time Favorites: Robert Burke Warren

I Abuse the News: Chief Army Contract Overseer Demoted After Criticizing Halliburton Pact

I Abuse the News: Bush tells Congress: Stay Home; Their services no longer needed

Featured Performer: Irene Kelley

World According to Me: George W. Bush: One of Our Greatest Presidents?

World According to Me: No Need for a Deep Throat in Bush Administration

I Recommend: John Prine: Fair & Square

The Hundredth Man by Jack Kerley

The Subdudes' Miracle Mule and Primitive Streak

The World According to Me: An Evening at the Barrymore With Abraham Lincoln

I Abuse the News: SPIN WARS Expected to Kill or Under-report the Deaths of Thousands Around the World

I Abuse the News: Shiites Stomp on Drawings of American Flags

World According to Me: May 25: An Anniversary; A Continuation of a Different Kind of War

Featured Performer in My All-Time Favorites:Vonda Shepard

World According to Me: The Bush Agenda: Is there a Bush Agenda?

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