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  Brian Sawyer 4:20 pm on September 23, 2005 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  New Album Trend for Old Musicians? 

  Is the new trend for musicians of a certain age to release albums with neither artist name nor album title on the cover?

  The Rolling Stones’ “A Bigger Bang” (top) and Paul McCartney’s “Chaos and Creation in the Backyard” (bottom) are currently “Better Together” at Amazon.

  
  New Album Trend for Old Musicians?
  Originally uploaded by Brian Sawyer.
  In related news, see Ed’s hilarious, spot-on comments on the latest paperback book cover for an author of a certain age.
   

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  Brian Sawyer 9:38 am on September 8, 2005 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  iTunes 5 Search Bar 

  The best new feature in iTunes 5 is the enhanced search bar. Now, when I want to find John Wesley Harding’s song “Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, David Blue & Me,” I can do a Song search for “bob dylan” without bringing up the 600+ songs by Bob Dylan in my iTunes library.

  Similarly, I can do an Album search for “john wesley harding” to find Dylan’s “I’ll Be Your Baby Tonight” without also finding John Wesley Harding’s “Phil Ochs, Bob Dylan, Steve Goodman, David Blue & Me.”

  Very helpful indeed.

  
  iTunes 5 Search Bar
  Originally uploaded by Brian Sawyer.
  Now, I just wish I could search for “bob dylan” by Composer only, excluding the Artist column. Until then, I’ll just have to stick with my always-expanding “Dylan Covers” playlist.
   
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  Brian Sawyer 3:12 pm on September 7, 2005 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  
  The Bat Segundo Show
  Originally uploaded by Brian Sawyer.
  

  If you want to have your finger on the pulse of the literary world, but prefer to take your information aurally, do check out Ed Champion‘s Bat Segundo Show, “a podcast in tenebrous standing.”

  Recent shows include Norman Solomon; Paula Kamen; Amanda Filipacchi & Kevin Smokler; Dennis Loy Johnson, Valerie Merians & David Kipen; Jonathan Ames; and David Mitchell.

  Today’s installment features Periel Aschenbrand.

  
  The Bat Segundo Show
  Originally uploaded by Brian Sawyer. (Click on image for a somewhat more detailed, if still incomplete, view of the Bat Segundo show archive.)

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    ed 5:47 pm on September 7, 2005 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    Brian: Thanks so much for checking into this and offering the screen grabs. I’m still trying to negotiate the tags so that it appears with some coherence in iTunes, but hope to get this problem fixed after a few more shows. (As you might imagine, it’s enough time and trouble trying to research, coordinate, interview and engineer each show!)

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    Brian 7:37 pm on September 7, 2005 Permalink | Log in to Reply

    I certainly understand, Ed. When your time is scarce (as I imagine it usually is), please focus on the content. Everything else is working well enough for that to take center stage, as it should.

    I look forward to the next installment, and couldn’t really care less about the iTunes metadata.

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  Brian Sawyer 10:26 am on September 3, 2005 Permalink | Log in to leave a Comment  

  
  Mosaic: Babies aren’t cheap
  Originally uploaded by jbum.