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Five of My Favorite Singer/Songwriters who are overdue for a new CD: (Instead of a criticism, a hope there's more great songs to come)

Mike Stinson: A honky-tonk voice so unique and a talent for pathos dripping with irony.  One of the top songwriters I've heard so far.  There has been promises of an impending new project due out any day now, "The Jukebox In Your Heart."

Last CD: Last Fool At the Bar

Brian Keane: A founding member, but now part-time player of the Band of Heathens, he recently gained some notoriety for co-writing Hayes Carll's award-winning "She Left Me for Jesus." 

There have been hints since 2007 that a record entitled "Forbidden" was imminent.  Still hoping.

Last CD: I Aint Even Lonely

David Halley: The writer of "Rain Just Falls" would be enough, but he has two fantastic, hard to find CDs: Stray Dog Talk and "Broken Spell."

Said to be working on new stuff with a band called Shake a Stick.

John Eddie: A touring, live performer whose only major release is Who the Hell is John Eddie which produced some airplay for songs like "If You're Here When I Get Back" and "Let Me Down Hard."

No word on an upcoming release.

Irene Kelley: The writer of one of the best country songs of all time, "A Little Bluer Than That."  Her sophomore effort, "Thunderbird" was a little disappointing, but A Simple Path was a revelation.

Come on, y'all.  The crowd is getting restless.

I Recommend: The Missing by Tim Gautreaux

World According to Me: Favre Not Alone Among Great Quarterbacks with less than Favorable Finishes

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

by Jon Dee Graham

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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