I’m listening to the final mixes of the forthcoming Bosque Brown album to be titled Bosque Brown Sings Mara Miller. It will be out this fall in stores once the artwork is finalized. Brother Danielson is having a cd release party for his new album, Brother is to Son, on June 17 at The Coral Room in NYC. The release date for Woven Hand’s Consider the Birds cd/LP is now on 2 October 2004. On sadder news, I didn’t mention it last week…Larry Weigner worked for the post office near me and was often the person who would mail a lot of the btv packages. He unexpectedly died last week at 46 and is missed by all who knew him. :::scott:::
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Today was proclaimed as a national day of mourning for the passing of Ronald Reagan. With any president there is good and bad and hopefully his suffering from Alzheimer’s will influence increased research into this disease, though he himself likely would have favored cutting federal funding to such research. I don’t like to be very political here, but, how can we so positively remember things like Reagonomics and the extreme militarization that were ushered in under his command? He racked up a deficit that we’re still paying for and an economic legacy that favored the rich and greatly increased the distance between rich and poor. While his efforts may be attributed to the end of the cold war, the legacy of militarization is still with us today. Let’s remember the Iran-Contra affair that sold weapons to the Iranians to fund revolution in Nicaragua against the wishes of Congress and the American people or the funding of the School of the Americas that trained Latin American guerillas and revolutionaries, teaching them tactics to enable them in their struggles that left hundreds of innocent people dead. Let us mourn the passing of an affable and popular movie star and public figure and…
A digipak repress of Unwed Sailor : The Marionette and the Music Box arrived today, so that will be available again from the btv store shortly. Unwed Sailor will have these for sale along with the book and LP versions on their tour. LP booklets for the live Mount Eerie 3xLP release also arrived, along with covers for Sufjan Steven’s Michigan album. I’ve been helpind Sufjan and Asthmatic Kitty coordinate the release of this. Check with Asthmatic Kitty for a release date. Woven Hand : Consider the Birds is on its way to get mastered to vinyl for a September or October release. :::scott:::