Ride 'em cowboy. Nothing rocks and grooves like good ole Americana!Cool Bands,Cool artist supporting labels-Buy the CDs! The Silos-Tennessee Fire Dave Alvin-Goodbye Again Rich Hopkins & The Luminarios-Careless Alejandro Escovedo-Castanets

The Links today: Hot Hot Heat TV On The Radio J.Mascis The Ultimate online indie music encyclopedia: TrouserPress Don't stop till you get enough!

Funky Taiwan in the early summer heat.Milk Jason Yudoff And the lovely Brother Love: Push Brother Love

San Jacinto Records Relicatessen:Volume Two & Lumimarios Live NAKED PREY :RAW-HEAD AL perry & the Cattle :Camper blues phantom limbs :saw the woman in half Rich Hopkins & luminarios :red white and blue

Oops, mucho trials and errors-never mind the bullocks-PodSafe Show numero uno is here. Brother Love-Push, Marwood-Soulless, Orange Park, Make Up Your Mind, and The Transfer-Down With Everything. Enjoy! Brother Love Marwood Orange Park The Transfer

While I didn't pass the physical for the RedArmy, I managed to look ofr PodSafe Music, take care of some business, and still maintain my sanity. Enjoy

Here's first live soundcast on Chop Liver machine. A lot of Podsafe Music stuff will be happening soon with C.C. Chapman, Boogie Chillen, Wade & Jimi and much more!

Heres a little taste from a great charitable benefit-the Crossroads Foundation for Drug Rehabilitation-featuring Jeff, Beck, Z.Z. Top and Hubert Sumlin. Some good local Taiwan blues coming your way soon-be there or be square!

Date : Saturday & Sunday, October 29th , 30th ; 1 ~ 9 pm Location: the plaza of ‘Tiger City Mall’, Taichung Artists Contacted for Blues Bash 2 (*indicates verbal commitment) John Primer (Muddy Waters alumnus) Willie "Big Eyes" Smith (Muddy Waters alum, Handy Award winner) Robben Ford *Hazel Payne & band (Grammy Award Winner) *Shun Kikuta (lead guitarist w/Koko Taylor) *Joey Gilmore - BSoT nominee for 2005 IBC *Richard Johnston – IBC winner 2001 *Peter ‘Bonzo’ Radvanyi (from Slovakia) *Joanna Connor Band *Gabriel Gratzer & Adriana Mercurio (from Argentina) Thai Janis Joplin & the ‘Snowman’ Fabio Treves (harmonica player from Italy) Hans Theessink (Dutch guitarist) Magda Piskorczyk (Polish singer/guitarist) Sweet Willie ‘D’ – Boston bluesman Forty Four – Peter Parcek (IBC contact) Hep Cat Boo Daddies (IBC contact) plus 6 or 7 local bands: Dino’s band (China Blue) Boogie Chillin’ David Chen & MBR BoPoMoFo Chicken Rice Black Sheep Corbet Wall’s band Kenyatta Trio Activities: • Performances by International Blues artists plus local Blues bands • Food and drink to fit the Blues theme • Distribution of hand-outs on the Blues (short over-view, recommended discography, short bios of essential Blues Masters, web sites, Blues societies, etc) • Lucky Drawings for prizes • Blues Trivia Quiz - correct answers sent by text messaging win a Blues CD • Open Blues Jam – members of audience invited to join event performers to play the Blues. • Musician workshops

Here is a show faturing some great guitarists,partly in tribute to my friend Nick at Rambings & Musings Podcast: http://ramuse.blogspot.com/ Feature Bill Frisell, Chet Atkins and Les Paul, and Sonny Sharrock and Carlos Santana. Getting closer to doing mobile sound cast. Will be doing some from China in about another week.