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WHAT'S YOUR FAVORITE?

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1. What have you been listening to the most lately?
2. What was the last CD you acquired?
3. What are your top three favorites of all times?

And we'll post your response below!

Med Lewis, Charles City, IA
1. Eliane Elias Plays Jobim
2. "Back to Me" Kathleen Edwards
3. Byrds, British Invasion, Bacharach/David

Gill Adams, Dalhart, Tx
1. Billy Jack Wills
2. Cari Lee & Saddle-ites
3.Doug sahm
4.Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys
5. Lynette Morgan

Melissa Smother and Anthony Lane
1. The Squirrel Nut Zippers - "Bedlam Ballroom"
2. Chris Duarte - "Texas Sugar"
3.The Hellcasters "Hell III - New Axes to Grind"
4. The Dempseys "Drinking Songs for your Granparents"......And of course, the Hot Club of Cowtown!!! Oh Yeah!!!

Chas Zehner, Chicago
1. kd lang hymns of the 49th parallel muriel anderson hometown live
2. john jorgenson, franco-american swing
3. hcoc's stardust

Doug C., Baltimore, MD.
1. Listening to lately: Tom McDermott, The Crave (Piano Music from New Orleans & Beyond); Stacey Kent, The Boy Next Door; Blossom Dearie, Blossom's Planet; Continental Stomp.
2. Last CD: Continental Stomp (World Café, Philadelphia, 2/8/05.)
3. Top Three:
a. The King Cole Trio (through 8/47, any way you may find them, esp. "Body and Soul" of 1/17/44).
b. Django and Steph, in any of their ubiquitous permutations.
c. Tie: Chester and Lester [Atkins, Paul], those two early '70s RCA lps; Wes Montgomery, Wynton Kelly Trio, Smokin' at the Half

cheers - Duncan - Glasgow, Scotland
1. Les Paul & Mary Ford, Louis Jordan, Lester Young, Django and Jack Macduff
2. What was the last CD you acquired?
Proper Records Les Paul & Mary Ford Doubler
3. What are your top three favorites of all times?
Charlie Christian, Johnny Guitar Watson 50's stuff, King Records

Joshua Mar tin, New London, CT
1. Johnny Cash, American IV
2. Hot Club's Ghost Train (which Elana recommended to me last Saturday after the show in Lebanon, NH - Thank you!)
3. (man, that's tough) Dylan, John Hartford, Robert
Cray

Bunny Williams
1.Red Stick Rambleers - Louisiana
2.Nora Jones - Angel
3. Pfister Sisters

Alex Horrod
1) Current favourite- Buddy Miller "Universal, united house of prayer"
2) last bought- "Violin, sing the blues for me"- various.

Amy Rigby
1."'Til the Wheels Fall Off"
2) Gillian Welch "Time the Revelator"
3) Tim O'Brien "Traveler"
Plus Hot Club of Cowtown, naturally!

Graham Foxcroft
1. Steely Dan - Gaucho
2. Tom Waits - Real Gone
3. Bruce Cockburn, Todd Rundgren, Bob Dylan

John Smith
1. Hot club of cowtown and The Unicorns
2. Dance party with Jonathan Richman

1.Belle & Sebastian;If you are feeling sinister
2.Karkkiautomaatti:Seikkailuun
3.Sister Nancy: Bam Bam Bila (just that one song)

BrendanDrimnagh
1) Frank Zappa:Strictly Commercial,
    Hotclub of Cowtown:Continental Stomp,
    Paul Butterfield Blues Band.
2) John Renbourn: Collected,
    Frank Zappa: Waka/Jawaka
3) There are too many to choose from.

Bernard Buswell
1. Pat Metheny
2. Norah Jones
3. Pat Metheny, Norah Jones, John Scofield

Kevin Szum, London, England
1) The Gun Club, Fire of Love
2) Hot Club of Cowtown, Continental Stomp (I saw you on Jools Holland!!)
3) The White Stripes, De Stijl
The Smiths, Meat is Murder
Pixies, Surfa Rosa

Jeff Barbalics, Cleveland, OH
1. Flapjack (Canadian Contradance group) - Happy Slappy's Flapjack Hut
2. Madeleine Peyroux - Careless Love
3. Glenn Gould's 1955 recording of J.S. Bach's Goldberg Variations
Louie Armstrong's Potato Head Blues
Van Morrison - Moondance

Zachary Lawrence - Junction City & Winfield, KS
1. And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead - Source
Tags and Codes
Tommy Emmanuel - Only, Midnight Road
Tears for Fears - Live at Knebworth, 1990
2. Bjork - Medulla, The Beautiful South - Blue Is the Color
3. The Sundays - Blind
Tears for Fears - Songs From the Big Chair
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless

Bill Messman, Lincoln, NE
1. Hot Club of Cowtown, Richard Thompson, and Lambert, Hendricks & Ross.
2. "Swingin' Stampede" by Hot Club of Cowtown.
3. "Bitches Brew" by Miles Davis, "Djangology 49" by Django Reinhardt, "John Wesley Harding" by Bob Dylan.

Bill Rost:
1. John Hiatt - Bring The Family
2. Jerry Vandiver - Don't Try This At Home
3. John Stewart - California Bloodlines
John Stewart - Cannons In The Rain
John Stewart - Punch The Big Guy

Greg in Greenville Maine
1. My cat's everpresent purring
2. Slim Cessnas Auto Club : Bloudy Tenant Truth Peace
3. The Stooges - Fun House, Brownie Sundaes with hot fudge and black raspberry ice cream, Makin' tame women wild!

Carsten Molt: Pittsburgh, Pa.
1. Bob Dylan-Nahville Skyline, Hot Club Of Cowtown-Continental Stomp, Ornette Coleman-Free Jazz
2. Yonder Mountain String Band-Mountain Tracks: Volume 1
3.Bob Dylan, Yonder Mountain String Band, Keith Jarrett, Cecil Taylor, the Grateful Dead

Baard Lundvall: (Norway)
1.Vidar Busk -Love Buzz.
2.J.J Cale -To Tulsa and back.
3.Miles Davis -Kind of blue
Wes Montgomery trio- A dynamic new sound
Romane -Samois-sur-Seine

Toby Wood:
1. The Lonesome Sisters with Riley Baugus
2. Jerree Small - 'Mobius'
3. Van Morrison - 'Astral Weeks'
Hank Williams - '40 Greatest Hits'
Gram Parsons - 'Grievous Angel'

Danny Wilson:
1. Lost Dogs-Mutt
2. Tom Waits-Alice
3. Bob Dylan
Van Morrison-Hymns to the Silence
Daniel Amos-Vox Humana

Chip duMont:
1. Any Hot Club of Cowtown
2. Any Django Reinhardt/QHCF
3. Red Stick Ramblers...great western swing, cajun, hot club band
4. Gary Potter-Minor Swing
5. any Fapy Lafertin
6. Bob Wills-For the Last Time (LP)

Paul Williams:
1. Steve Earle: Guitar Town & Train a Coming
2. The Campbell Brothers: Sacred Steel on Tour
3: Sticky Fingers, Any Steve Earle, All Things must Pass.
Tomorrow there would be 3 different ones

Colin Beardshall: Yorkshire, England
1. Buddy Holly: The Best of Buddy Holly.
2. Gillian Welch: Soul Journey.
3. Gillian Welch: Hell Among the Yearlings.
The Jayhawks: Sound of Lies.
Neil Young: Tonight's The Night

Chandler White:
1. George Jones: Cup of Loneliness – The Classic Country Years
2. Raymond Scott: Manhattan Research
3. Peter Gunn OST – This record is always and forever number one in my heart (Mancini), Latin a la Lee (Peggy Lee), John Wesley Harding (Dylan)

Justin Cheung:
1. Le Quintette du Hot Club de France (1934-1939)
2. The Hot Club of Cowtown - Continental Stomp
3. Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke, Sidney Bechet

Keith Walker:
1. Milton Brown and the Musical Brownies-Complete
Recordings of the Father of Western Swing 1932-37
2. Marty Grosz-Left To His Own Devices.
3. Les Doigts De L'Homme-Dans Le Monde

Colin Bearshall:
1. Gillian Welch: Hell Among The Yearlings & Time The Revelator
2. The Who: Quadrophenia (replacing old vinyl)
3. a) Freak Out : The Mothers of Invention
b) Forever Changes: Love
c) The Sound of Lies: The Jayhawks.

Norman Plankey:
1. Hot Lunch -- Asylum Street Spankers
2. Flamin' Guitars -- Speedy West/Jimmy Bryant; Window to the Sea -- Cafe Noir
3. Minor Swing -- Gary Potter; The Hot Guitars of Biller And Wakefield, Dave Biller/Jeremy Wakefield; Helium -- Tin Hat Trio

Tom Hauser:
1. JAZZ - Kenton, Tjader, Bill Evans etc.
2. Last CD acquired? I stopped counting when I went over 700...but must have been a western swing number.
3. Top 3: Anything by Tommy Morrell and the Timewarp Tophands.

Steven Matthew Kruh:
1. Van Morrison Into the Music
2. Bob Dylan Desire
3. Television Marquees Moon
4. Anthony More Flying Doesn't Help
5. Miles Davis Tribute to Jack Johnson

Lisa Milliken:
1. Bob Wills For the Last Time
2. Jake Hooker Set 2
3. Bob Wills For the Last Time, Asleep At the Wheel Live at BB's, Leon Rausch & Tommy Allsups Tribute to Bob Wills box set

Alan Thomson:
1. Golden Years of Western Swing (Proper box set), Brendan Benson/Jason Faulkner, BigStar, Cake, Andy Partridge, Ry Cooder, Tom Waits
2. Paul Burch Fool for Love, The Singles Better than Before
3. Dan Hicks & his Hot Licks Where's the Money?, Oscar Peterson Trio We Get Requests, Los Lobos 4-CD "book" set

Trever Harrison:
1. Radiohead Hail To The Thief, Massive Attack 100th Window, Willie Nelson Stardust
2. Tom Waits Mule Variations, Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez Let's Leave This Town
3. The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour, Pink Floyd Wish You Were Here, Animals, Radiohead Hail to the Thief, Amnesiac, Miles Davis Love Songs, Various Down From The Mountain (O Brother Where Art Thou?)

Gary Parker:
1. Wayne Hancock A-Town Blues
2. Imani Coppola Post Traumatic Pop Syndrome, Little Red Fighting Mood (both demos, written, played, produced, and distributed by the lovely lady herself... unfortunately largely forgotten but she's still making wonderful songs), Aimee Mann (pretty much everything she's done), Victoria Williams Swing the Statue, Po' Girl Po' Girl, Jimmy Lafave

Gary Parker:
1. the late Ruby Braff Music for the Still of the Night
2. June Christy The Complete Capitol Small Group Transcriptions, Bryan Ferry As Time Goes By
3. Anything by Billie Holiday, anything by Lester Young (the greatest saxophonist ever), and Sinatra's "Song for Swingin' Lovers"

Austin Clark:
1. The Waybacks Way Live, Clumsy Lovers, Johnny Cash, The Violent Femmes
2. Fiddlers Four
3. Anything Reinhart/Grappelli, Hot Club of Cowtown Ghost Train, Robinella & CC String Band

Alisdair, Scotland:
1. Laibach Wat, Kraftwerk Tour de France, Venus Hum Big Beautiful Sky
2. Karl Bartos Communication
3. Beethoven's 4th movement, 9th Symphony "An Die Freude"; JS Bach's Tocatta and Fugue in D Minor; The Stranglers Golden Brown

Paul Kent:
1. The Damned, The Electric Prunes, Kim Fowley, The Elektras, Big Boy Pete
2. The Damned Grave Disorder
3. The Hot Club of Cowtown "'Deed I Do," Pink Floyd "Shine On Crazy Diamond," Mozart's "Requiem"

Neal Figueiredo:
1. The Hot Club of Cowtown Ghost Train, Slim Gaillard His Best Recordings: 1938-1946, Spike Jones The Best of Spike Jones, Sylvie Paquette Oser
2. Hot Club Of Cowtown Continental Stomp
3. Rory Block Best Blues and Originals, Bob Marley Legend: The Best of Bob Marley and the Wailers, Patsy Cline The Patsy Cline Collection (4 CD Set)

Steve, Wales:
1. Marillion Anoraknophobia
2. Dido Life for rent
3. Marillion, Mose Vinson, James Taylor

Mick Franks:
1. Django Reinhardt
2. Stephane Grappelli A Life in the Jazz Century DVD
3. The Hi-Los, Buddy Rich, Django & Stephane

Mike Tenerowicz:
1. Merle Haggard I Love the Dixie Blues, Dr. John Gris Gris, Mississippi John Hurt Legend
2. Holy Modal Rounders Good Taste Is Timeless
3. Hank Thompson Songs for Rounders, Huey Piano Smith Having a Good Time, Bob Dylan New Morning (these change a lot)

Johnny Atomic:
1. Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys
2. Heybale! Heybale Live at the Continental Club
3. Merle Haggard, Johnny Horton, anything on Sun Records

Michael Craig:
2. Blind Melon
3. Led Zeppelin, Radiohead, and The Pixies, But these change quite a lot...!

Frank Verweij:
1. Merle Haggard's 1970s albums on vinyl!!
2. Hot Club Of Cowtown Continental Stomp
3. Merle Haggard 'That's The Way It Was In '51, Bobbie Cryner I Didn't Know My Own Strength, Heather Myles Nashville Gone Hollywood

Fredo:
1. Marti Brom Wise To You, Cave Catt Sammy Whiskey & The Devil, The Hot Club Of Cowtown Continental Stomp

Colin Perry:
1. Marty Grosz, Vince Giordano, Jon Erik-Kellso, and Ken Peplowski Remembering Louis
2. Frankie Trumbauer 1932-1936 on Classics
3. Anything with Ikey Robinson or Teddy Bunn, Eddie Lang and Joe Venuti The New York Sessions, Various Artists Pioneers of the Jazz Guitar (Yazoo)

Anthony Stiker:
1. Gillian Welch (all of her stuff!)
2. Hot Club of Cowtown Ghost Train
3. Feelies The Good Earth, Bruce Springsteen Nebraska, Freedy Johnston This Perfect World

Jeff Stacer:
1. The Hot Club of Cowtown Continental Stomp
2. Avenue Q The Musical Soundtrack (it's really good and very funny)
3. Hot Club of Cowtown, Great Big Sea, Hal Ketchum

Ed Daniel:
1. The Hot Club of Cowtown Continental Stomp!
2. The Hot Club of Cowtown Continental Stomp!
3. The Hot Club of Cowtown, Bob Wills & the Texas Playboys, Asleep at the Wheel

Duke & Cindy Gilleland:
1. 1946-48 Dinah Washington Embraceable You, Jody Nix Play Me Something I Can Swing To!, Jack Teagerden
2. Jody Nix Play Me Something I Can Swing To!, Johnnie Lee Wills & All The Boys
3. Wills's Bear Family box set, Ray Price Bear Family box set, the "only" Hoyle Nix and the West Texas Cowboy album ever made

GinnyMac:
1. Ella Fitzgerald The Best of the Song Books
2. Tommy Morrell Jugglin' Cats
3. Billy Joel The Stranger, Spade Cooley Spadella! The Essential Spade Cooley, Ella Fitzgerald The Best of Ella Fitzgerald

Mark Matthews:
1. The Waybacks Devolver
2. Morning Blend compilation
3. Pink Floyd The Dark Side Of The Moon, Stan Rogers Between The Breaks, Massenet Meditation From Thais

mharries
1. Pearl Jam
2. Aaron Copland's 3rd Symphony
3. U2 Joshua Tree, Pearl Jam Yield, Orbital Middle of Nowhere

br54knight
1. Johnny Cash, Chris Robinson, Scott Miller & the Commonwealth, BR5-49, The Rolling Stones, Willie Nelson, Robinella & the CC String Band, John Mellencamp & Taj Mahal
2. Jonny Lang Long Time Coming
3. The Black Crowes Amorica, The V-Roys Just Add Ice, Otis Redding Dock Of The Bay

Alexandra Yavorsky
1. Sunshine Skiffle Band Beat It, Blow It, Strum It, Hum It!
2. Stephane Grappelli Parisian Thoroughfare
3. The Quintessential Django Reinhardt & Stephane Grappelli Le Quintette du Hot Club de France: 25 classics 1934-1940, Clifford Hayes and the Louisville Jug Bands (vol. 2 & 3), Stuff Smith The Mad Genius of the Violin, Vol. 1

David Engelmann
1. R. Crumb's Old-Time Favorites Gay Life in Dikanka
2. Cracow Klezmer Band Bereshit ("In the Beginning")
3. Hot Club of San Francisco Swing This, Les Primitifs du Futur World Musette, Ella Fitzgerald The Jazz Sides (Verve Jazz Masters 46)

Bobbie Melody
1. The Hot Club of Cowtown!
2. The Hot Club of Cowtown!
3. Riders In The Sky, The Prairie Twins

Fred Turgis
1. Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys It's Time, Wayne Hancock Swing Time, Dave Stuckey Get a Load of This, Hot Club of Cowtown I Can't Believe You're in Love with Me
2. Deke Dickerson Mr. Entertainment
3. Bob Wills Bear Family 11-CD box set, High Noon Texas Style, Big Sandy and his Fly-Rite Boys Swingin' West

Joshua Smelser
1. Beth Gibbons Out of Season, Moloko Statues, Lili Haydn Light Blue Sun, Andrew Bird Weather Systems, Countdown Quartet Sadlack's Stomp, James Mathus Stop And Let The Devil Ride
2. Enigma Voyageur
3. Portishead PNYC, Andrew Bird Thrills, Devics My Beautiful Sinking Ship

Lisa Quinn
1. Radney Foster
2. The Massacoustics
3. Eric Clapton Behind the Sun, Radney Foster See What You Want to See, John Mellencamp Scarecrow

Glenn Kennedy
1. Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks, Maria Muldaur, Tim O'Brien, Hot Club of Cowtown!
2. Bette Midler Tribute to Rosemary Clooney
3. Hot Club Of Cowtown, Dan Hicks and The Hot Licks, Django Reinhardt

AScrivner
1. Lots of novelty songs (selecting for horse show costumed musical freestyle classes), Henhouse Five (aka Ray Stevens) In the Mood, Chicken Dance, Loudon Wainwright III, Tom Lehrer
2. David Sanborn Time Again
3. Peggy King Stash, Sleighride in July, Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book and Dream Dancing, Connie Stevens The Hank Williams Song Book

Colby Allen
1. Stevie Wonder Fulfillingness' First Finale / Innervisions, Elvis Costello Armed Forces, Talib Kweli Train of Thought / Quality, Tom Waits Franks Wild Years
2. Death Cab for Cutie Transatlanticism, Aesop Rock Bazooka Tooth
3. D'Angelo Voodoo, Steely Dan Aja, The Smithereens Green Thoughts

Margery Heyl
1. Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez, Chip Taylor alone, and old Kris Kristofferson since Chip Taylor reminds me of him
2. Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez The Trouble With Humans
3. This question is too hard!

Knut from Norway
1. Johnny Cash American IV - The Man Comes Around
2. Rodney Crowell Fate's Right Hand
3. The Beatles Abbey Road, Paul McCartney & Wings Band on the Run, Gram Parsons Grievous Angel/GP