Atmosphere

Just a brief entry here -
listening to John Hiatt's 1987 album "Bring the Family", there's a great line in "Memphis in the Meantime":

" . . . sure, I like country music and I like mandolin,
but right now I need a Telecaster through a Vibrolux turned up to ten."

2009 Grammy Show

Sunday, February 1, 2009

The Grammys is (are?) next Sunday night – I’d better get going on this.
Last year I did a Grammy show after the awards ceremony – this year I’ll be doing my show the day before – shall I prognosticate? On the air? (Sounds like something Howard Stern would do . . . )

Let’s go looking for the file from last year . . .
Found it – I went back 50 years – uh, no – 40 years to 1968.
Then covered ’78, ’88, ’98 and ’08.

Difference: last year did the show after the awards were given – this year I’ll be guessing at the winners. Might be fun.

Categories covered last year:

Record Of The Year, Album OTY, Song OTY, Best New Artist, . . .
Jazz categories changed over the years – as of 1998 they had broadened a bit. Here’s what I chose for last year’s show

Jazz – Performance by a soloist
Jazz – Performance by a group
Jazz – Perf. by a big band
Jazz – Best Vocal Perf.
Jazz – Best Contemporary Jazz Perf.

On another note, it seems that I’m using a larger font in my Word docs lately. Getting older. :0(