Second Times a Charm

Well, that was fun.

Seems that our method of sending the "Report from the Mountains" from Montana to the studios of WUCX in Michigan has failed us: the files were teetering on the edge of being too large to e-mail. The episode that should have aired yesterday (2/23) tipped the scales and, although my computer told me it went, it didn't.

So you were treated to a repeat of the previous episode; which is okay because Al Hellus deserved another listen. And it made me notice that in the post for that episode, I neglected to tell you about the music selection.

The song was "Birk's Works," a Dizzy Gillespie tune, from 1957's Art Pepper Meets the Rhythm Section where Art's alto sax is paired with the Miles Davis regulars: Red Garland on piano, Paul Chambers on bass and Philly Joe Jones on drums.

You can listen to Dizzy's original here.

And now, through a combination of luck, sorcery, mojo, meetings at the crossroads and buying an unction of a mountebank, we've developed a method of getting the episodes on their merry way through cyberspace from this little mountain cabin to the radio studio nestled deep in the bowels of Delta College. Lord willin' and the Creek don't rise, we should have uninterupted broadcasts from here on (knock on wood).

In the meantime, you can listen to the previous "Report from the Mountains" episode here:
reportfromthemountains04.mp3