if you don't mind my dog's head

also, go to www.lomaxarchive.com. sign up for a log in and stuff, it's free, and it'll open you up to the wonderful world of all alan lomax's shit. it's so good. there are photos, recordings, lists of all the field recording trips he took. so many great things.

did you know that burl ives cooperated with the joe mccarthy hearings? outing folks like pete seeger as commies? i mean, it was true, but still and all it's like ives ratted him out so he could continue appearing on kids morning TV shows and christmas specials.

anyway, i played the guy's guitar last tuesday. one of em anyway. it's just hanging out under a table in the folklife center of the library of congress. it's pretty cool. classical. like daren's old WWII greek beast.

i love the library of congress.